If you have done a new or upgrade install of Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala), did it go smoothly or did you have issues, and on what hardware did you install?
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I have the dell inpirion 1525. I upgraded from 9.04 and everything went fine. I'm just disappointed about the login screen change. Anyone know if there is a way to change it? I know you can change some basic stuff like the icons and window colors, but is there a way to integrate themes again? | ||||
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Just did an hour ago. Went smoothly on VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 build 185404. VMWare Tools installed just fine too. Its config program had to recompile some of the VMWare Tools modules for the new kernel as expected, but without any problems. All modules were loaded. Runs fine on a client set to 1024Mb Ram and 8 GB HDD. | |||
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I "upgraded" my Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop to 9.10 from a perfectly working 9.04 and now it's trashed (well, unusable) - got no graphical interface at all. Have given up for a few days as I was too worked up. If anyone's got any ideas (happy to trash Ubuntu install - it's a dual boot with Vista which came with it) then I will buy you beers and ship it over to you from New Zealand. I also think my old Dell desktop (totally Ubuntu 9.04) went through the ringer but am too weary to turn it on and check. | |||||
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I did, and everything works fine. There is a new thing called Ubuntu One, it's like iDisk and it's free. They give you 2gigs of online storage. The new app installer is quite cool too. | |||||
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Karmic upgrade was smooth as butter on my laptop. I keep kicking off the download on my desktop and walking away. It keeps failing and I've been too busy to babysit it. I'm considering just doing a full install; I was able to dl the ISO. | ||||
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Like a few others, I did the automatic update and had no problems at all. Only really issue was figuring out what version of firefox to use - I had installed the Shiretoko (?) 3.5, and 3.5.4 is now included, so I had to manually update some of my launchers. Took about 15 minutes from start to finish. | ||||
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I installed it fresh on my Celeron M laptop. It went smoothly. I had 9.04 on it previously. But I was afraid of dist upgrade, so did not go that way. I backed up everything and tried fresh install. I also installed it on my dual core desktop where I have existing Vista. Grub2 caused little problem there. It did not list Vista in the boot menu. I had to do this to fix that problem. | ||||
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DP35DP motherboard, Core 2 Duo, 2 x 500GB drives, no issues on new install. | |||
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For me, it wasn't the most painless update ever. It failed to auto-merge my menu.lst, and I now have to compile openTTD manually. But apart from that, it's fine. | |||
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I had a crash in the repartioning step. Luckily since I had live client running I was able to fire up gParted and fix the problem before I rebooted. Second time through it was fine. This should be a community wiki question. | ||||
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I upgraded but upon the system restart I get a usplash error and I can't do anything. I've posted this as a SU question elsewhere, and hoping to get an answer... Upgrades shouldn't break. :( | ||||
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I did a fresh install of 9.10 Desktop on an old Dell 610 laptop. Everything went smoothly, though I don't know if the wireless is working on not. I can test it and report back on Monday. | ||||
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I upgraded from jaunty 9.04, update went flawless it took about 2/3 hours to download & install but the whole process went fine. And I do see some performance improvements in this release. | ||||
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I have a Dell XPS M1530n that came with Ubuntu 8.04. Since I've had it, I was able to upgrade to 8.10 and 9.04 without too much difficulty. The upgrade to 9.10 did not go quite as smoothly. I downloaded the Alternate installer and tried using that to upgrade. The upgrade appeared to have finished successfully, but when it rebooted my computer, I was greeted with a flickering tty1 prompt (this bug). I booted into recovery mode several times and kept running apt-get dist-upgrade until it fixed itself. If I had waited longer (and found the bug report earlier) I would have tried the other solution, which was manually reinstalling the nvidia drivers. | ||||
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So I decided to try the upgrade on my Dell Inspiron 8200 Friday night. It went horribly wrong for me. After spending all of Saturday and most of Sunday morning googling for help to recover I have given up and am just doing a fresh install. | ||||
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I had it on a Toshiba laptop, a VM and a home-built PC. They all upgraded fine, execpt the homebuilt PC in which the sound doesn't work anymore. The VM and the laptop upgraded perfectly with no issues at all with sound, wireless, bluetooth, everything working. | ||||
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I tried to upgrade my Asus EEE900 Upgrade from xUbuntu 8.04 to xUbuntu 9.10 and it did not work, (however since those big steps seldom work I had a full backup of user data). And did a fresh install of xUbuntu 9.10, and all was fine. | ||||
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I ran the upgrade last night and it went super smooth. It downloaded and exchanged app. 1450 files and removed 89. Process took 1-2 hours incl. everything. My links and separate (third party) installations kept working. Security Pin pad, zdesktop, songbird, truecrypt, usb head phones etc... I managed to close the door when I installed grub 2 to the wrong MBR duuh. Running the live CD and reconfiguring / installing grub to the correct MBR cured the problem. What's missing: Cannot browse my Windows Mobile device anymore, but the bug has already been reported and the karmic repository for synce will eventually turn up. Thumbs up Core2Duo 6700, Asus Striker Extreme I, NVIDIA 8800 GTS 640 | ||||
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I did upgrade I have few glitch but nothing unbearable. My desktop at home which was on the Beta upgraded to normal release without any hurts. | ||||
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Everything went pretty smoothly for me upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. Although I was a bit thrown by the fact that the old splash screen system usplash was replaced with xsplash. For whatever reason this meant that you now no longer have the option to specify themes from the 'Login Screen' app in Control Center. I soon found out via a youtube video that you can manually replace the background, logo and throbber images of the splash screen, which are found in /usr/share/images/xsplash. The video also explains how to fully customise the appearance (ie fonts and colours etc) of the login screen. Another way to do do this can also be found here. Oh, and it turns out that the ripping program Grip is no longer in the repositories, and I can't seem to find a deb for it anywhere. Now that's a shame. I did like Grip a lot. | ||||
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The only thing I noticed is that it apperantly removed the Dekiwiki distribution I had going. Ton | ||||
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I've been running it for a few days now on 2 32-bit desktops and a hosted virtual machine running the server version. I haven't had any issues worth mentioning at all so far.... | ||||
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i installed ubuntu 9.10 yeaterday on my laptop. im a new linux user. everything works fine except for the sound! I have no sound at all. All day today i ve been trying to fix it but with no result so far :( | ||||
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After upgrading to Karmic I have one of the following choices - a) Run 2.6.28 kernel. Everything is as before, only touchpad does not work and there is no way to enable it. No touchpad tab in mouse settings either. (strangely, sudo cat /dev/psaux + using trackpad generates gibberish, so I assume that terminal sees my touchpad, but not X) b) Try booting into 2.6.31 kernel. And do nothing as I am presented with black screen (no flickering as some forums suggest). Ctrl+Alt+F1 to F7 also does not work. c) Clean install. Well, clean install of OS to fix issues with touchpad seems totally over the top. That would be understandable with Windows 95 and you all can imagine I do not want to go there. I'll probably go with (d) - get Win7 :( | ||||
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An upgrade didn't go well, so I reinstalled. That went well, and it seems to have eliminated the frequent system lockups in Jaunty and replaced it with occasional (so far) X lockups in Karmic (it is faster to restart X than to reboot, but it's still obnoxious). I still can't get virtual terminals to show up, although they are there. Other than that, it seems quite nice. | ||||
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I upgraded my HP DV6000 laptop from 9.04 to 9.10. Smooth upgrade, no obvious problems. I did find that the upgrade installed open source drivers for the built-in WiFi (not available in 9.04). PulseAudio seems more stable, but you can no longer pick different input/output devices in Skype than the default, which is annoying--you can't pick a USB headset for Skype and the speakers for other audio. | ||||
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I upgraded my desktop from 9.04, this is the second upgrade, it was installed as 8.10. The only problem I had was that I had to manually convert my Postgres databases. My laptop was reinstalled, and there were no problems at all on it. | ||||
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I've installed Karmic Koala to see if I liked this "whole linux deal" ;). I have a hp pavillion dv6700z laptop (amd/nvidia platform), and I have problems with my soundcard, although I can't tell what it is exactly. I have to use pulseaudio, and the sound works, but I was a bit annoyed. Everything else worked just fine. | ||||
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