Upgrade - worked flawlessly
Upgrade - worked but had few things to solve
Upgrade - got many problems that i've not been able to solve
Install - worked flawlessly
Install - worked but had few things to solve
Install - got many problems that i've not been able to solve
The purpose of this thread is to share your experience installing/upgrading gutsy. Did it worked flawlessly ? Did you got problems ? Did you manage to solve them ? if yes how ? ... ... . Feel free to post your experience here and think to explain how you solved the problems you got, it might help other users in your case. Thank you for contributing
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Updated through Ubuntu and (after a 13-14 hour process) I rebooted to a new, working version. Yay!
I voted "Upgrade worked flawlessly". I did have to install the restricted nvidia driver, and activate the 3D stuff, but I consider this an 'extra', as the system works ok without it, so I do not count them as issues that 'need' resolving.
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Where's the upgrade failed or didn't even get started option. I tried to upgrade through the update manager but the servers are obviously going into meltdown. I'll leave it for a few days now.
I'm going to upgrade right now. I wanted to have a look at the forums in order to know some other's experience before doing it. Forum staff should encourage people with positive upgrades experience to write on the forum, since I assume only people with bad experiences write posts looking for help and this gives the upgrade a bad impression. Since dapper, I had overall positive upgrades with only minor problems.
Last edited by zasf; October 19th, 2007 at 09:56 AM.
The upgrade from 7.04 didn't finish, it said it was unable to install libxml-libxml-perl, perl-simple and update-manager. Then it quit. No idea what was going on and scared to reboot, as it had crashed about half-way through installing the files. Then I backed up and rebooted and things were working. Not happy though, don't know if it's a proper upgrade or only half-a-one, though things SEEM to be in order - never got any feedback as to what went wrong from the system, besides that those packages had failed their install. I installed the perl stuff from cpan and update-manager seems to be up to date, so I don't know what it was going on about. Also when I pause my mouse on a menu item long enough for the tooltip to appear, I need to wait until the tooltip disappears before another menu item is selected when I hover my mouse over it. Very Annoying(TM).
Originally Posted by zasf Forum staff should encourage people with positive upgrades experience to write on the forum, since I assume only people with bad experiences write posts looking for help and this gives the upgrade a bad impression. Yep you're right, that's the limit of such poll in a "support" forum. Anyway i will forward your request to the staff forum.
Command line upgrade seemed to go well, but now gnome-panel won't load [even for a fresh user account, not sure if other parts load either], and the kernel parameter vga=791 gives a blank screen while booting [without splash and quiet].
Originally Posted by frodon Yep you're right, that's the limit of such poll in a "support" forum. Anyway i will forward your request to the staff forum. I'm aware it is not easy, still forum staff is really good thanks for your work
I've had no problems (that I can remember) installing and upgrading my Gutsy. First off, I downloaded the DVD image about 10 days ago with the Release Candidate. Even though I have an Athlon 64 X2, I'm running the i386 binaries because I need the Java plugin to work perfectly for my internet banking*. After a fresh install, almost everything worked out of the box, including nVidia proprietary drivers and Compiz-Fusion. The only annoying thing was that VirtualBox OSE doesn't work if you just install the packages, but nothing that I couldn't solve with google and 4 copy-and-pasted lines of shell commands. Finally, I installed all updates that were released since my install. Voilà. Yesterday, before the official release, my system was already running the final Gutsy Gibbon release... My hardware is as follows: Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (oc@2.77 GHz) ASRock 939NF6G Motherboard (nVidia nForce chipset) 3GB DDR400 2 SATA + 1 IDE hard-drives nVidia 8600GT 512MB
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