3.9 is here...

[paul_in_london]

I was having a problem installing 3.9-rc2, but reinstalling debconf sorted it out.

See this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2068601

That's strange. The errors have come back:

paul@lubuntu-64:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3.
Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 46, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 47, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3.
Use of uninitialized value $directory in -d at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 48, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3.
Use of uninitialized value $directory in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 49, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3.
debconf: DbDriver "config": mkdir :No such file or directory
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

                                         
paul@lubuntu-64:~$

[VinDSL]

Unremarkable upgrade here (Linux 3.9-rc2).

rc1 built/worked fine, and so did rc2...

[celluloid]

Working fine here, except the Broadcom STA driver fails to compile - not a show stopper since that driver is bugged for my BCM4313 as it is.

[anca-emanuel]

Tested 3.9-rc1 and rc2 with nouveau. Black screen and hard freeze.
Then I installed Nvidia 313: http://i.imgur.com/p1T9Ua4.png and it works.

[John_Swing]

3.9-rc1 didn't boot on my computer but I tried 3.9-rc2 today and everything works fine with it. I'm very pleased to see that the CPU temp is colder with 3.9-rc2 than it was with 3.8 (about -5°C).

[serdotlinecho]

Whooopss, failed to boot and drop to busybox shell after update(initramfs?), dist-upgrade and restart the pc with kernel 3.9rc2

Start-Date: 2013-03-13  21:37:25
Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade
Install: libudev1:i386 (198-0ubuntu2, automatic)
Upgrade: dmsetup:i386 (1.02.74-6ubuntu1, 1.02.74-6ubuntu2), libpci3:i386 (3.1.9-6ubuntu1, 3.1.9-6ubuntu2), bluez-alsa:i386 (4.101-0ubuntu8, 4.101-0ubuntu8b1), bluez-gstreamer:i386 (4.101-0ubuntu8, 4.101-0ubuntu8b1), liblcms2-2:i386 (2.4-0ubuntu1, 2.4-0ubuntu2), bluez-cups:i386 (4.101-0ubuntu8, 4.101-0ubuntu8b1), gir1.2-gudev-1.0:i386 (175-0ubuntu19, 198-0ubuntu2), initramfs-tools-bin:i386 (0.103ubuntu0.5, 0.103ubuntu0.5b1), bluez:i386 (4.101-0ubuntu8, 4.101-0ubuntu8b1), liblvm2app2.2:i386 (2.02.95-6ubuntu1, 2.02.95-6ubuntu2), libdevmapper1.02.1:i386 (1.02.74-6ubuntu1, 1.02.74-6ubuntu2), initramfs-tools:i386 (0.103ubuntu0.5, 0.103ubuntu0.5b1), udev:i386 (175-0ubuntu19, 175-0ubuntu20), pciutils:i386 (3.1.9-6ubuntu1, 3.1.9-6ubuntu2), libgudev-1.0-0:i386 (175-0ubuntu19, 198-0ubuntu2), libbluetooth3:i386 (4.101-0ubuntu8, 4.101-0ubuntu8b1), libdevmapper-event1.02.1:i386 (1.02.74-6ubuntu1, 1.02.74-6ubuntu2)
End-Date: 2013-03-13  21:38:45

Alright, chroot...





EDIT: Today's updates, hmmm, let's see...

root@raring:/# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  busybox-initramfs busybox-static console-setup gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 gir1.2-dee-1.0 gvfs
  gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-fuse gvfs-libs initramfs-tools
  initramfs-tools-bin keyboard-configuration kmod libappindicator1 libappindicator3-1 libatasmart4
  libdee-1.0-4 libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-drivers libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa
  libicu48 libkmod2 libnux-4.0-0 libnux-4.0-common libopenvg1-mesa libpcsclite1 libpulse-mainloop-glib0
  libpulse0 libpulsedsp libunity-core-6.0-5 libvlc5 libvlccore5 libxatracker1 light-themes
  mobile-broadband-provider-info module-init-tools mountall nux-tools pulseaudio
  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils python-appindicator
  python-cupshelpers system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome system-config-printer-udev
  ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-mono udisks unity unity-common unity-services upstart vlc vlc-data vlc-nox
  vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-modesetting
  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-radeon
73 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 30.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 30.7 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

EDIT: After updating and upgrading via live usb chroot, restart and still failed to boot, drop to busybox shell, exit command do nothing...reinstall
After finishing fresh raring installed, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade without enable raring-proposed. Restart, booted and working fine.

[paul_in_london]

3.9-rc3 is here:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa....9-rc3-raring/

paul@lubuntu-64:~$ uname -a
Linux lubuntu-64 3.9.0-030900rc3-generic #201303171935 SMP Sun Mar 17 23:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
paul@lubuntu-64:~$

[serdotlinecho]

3.9-rc3 is here:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa....9-rc3-raring/

paul@lubuntu-64:~$ uname -a
Linux lubuntu-64 3.9.0-030900rc3-generic #201303171935 SMP Sun Mar 17 23:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
paul@lubuntu-64:~$

Thank you.

Linux 3.9-rc3 : https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/17/186

[jverga]

3.9 rc3 (and all daily mainline builds after 3.9 rc2) no longer load ALSA drivers on AMD E1-1200 APU with HDA-Intel-HD-Audio Generic drivers).

Back to 3.9 rc2...

[Rukiri]

Tested on my main os (Funtoo linux) and it has some speed improvements, nvidia is running perfectly can't wait for 314 branch to arrive though.
Many USB3, Btrfs fixes and so on.

Lol who's ready for linux 4.0?!

3.9 rc3 (and all daily mainline builds after 3.9 rc2) no longer load ALSA drivers on AMD E1-1200 APU with HDA-Intel-HD-Audio Generic drivers).

Back to 3.9 rc2...

Are you downloading the kernel update via a PPA? or are you downloading the sources and compiling for your hardware? If you're going to be using the latest kernel make sure you're compiling from source always. Also that's a false statement, I have a box that's just a file server and I use the amd E1-1200 APU, it does load the sound this is why you need to be compiling your sources.