Re: 10.04 upgrade
I'm pining for arch atm...
dont have the guts to waste time on it with pure maths coming up :/
On 05/01/2010 10:18 PM, Jean Azzopardi wrote:
> Ditch it and get Windows 7.
>
> Oh, wait. I mean Arch Linux :P
> Srsly, I doubt ext4 regression would give you all that problem. My
> best guess is that some stuff didn't get updated while some did. My
> dad got the same problem when he upgraded to Karmic. While everything
> upgraded, the graphics drivers didn't, and I had to do some fishing
> around.
>
> I'd recommend a fresh installation. Or Windows 7. (incidentally, I've
> been getting 1 BSOD a month :|)
>
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Anton Xuereb<mewt.reaper@...> wrote:
>
>> AHHHH Kill me, 10.04 is seriously touching the bottom for me.
>>
>> No splash screen on boot (got a corrupted one the first boot, black screen
>> since then)
>> Alt+tab is really slow, freezing video running while it does it.
>> Video flickers when changing volume using keyboard media keys.
>> Disk performance is much worse, opening nautilus takes a good 5 seconds.
>>
>> Re-installed video driver, changed nothing.
>> Ext4 regression seems to be quite bad.
>>
>> Any help or ideas before i chuck everything out of the window ? Cos im on
>> the brink of madness :/
>>
>> M
>>
>> On 05/01/2010 12:55 PM, Andrew Cilia wrote:
>>
>> Hi Joseph,
>> I can't say that I got much out of the upgrade. So, at this point in
>> your thesis, why bother?
>>
>> If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 02:55 +0100, markhamj@... wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm writing my thesis, using Sun's OpenOffice 3.2. I had to remove the
>> default OO 3.1 in 9.04 as it had bug which wasn't allowing me to add
>> notes to documents. I followed the instructions in
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1404156 to install... install
>> is OK and I have the functionality I need...
>>
>> Did anyone find any problems upgrading in this scenario? I can't risk
>> losing lots of work and time finding out that OOO.3.2 is broken after I
>> upgrade to 10.04
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>> On 30/4/2010, "Anton Xuereb"<mewt.reaper@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The release notes are somewhat bitter sweet, seems like they released a
>>> whole load of bugs..
>>>
>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004
>>>
>>> On 04/30/2010 01:59 PM, Andrew Cilia wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had no probs in upgrading. VMWARE patched and now fine, VPN's fine,
>>>> gnome fine, evolution still crashing. All normal. Seeing that nothing
>>>> feels that much different is all the more reason for me to look at the
>>>> release notes and see what I got myself into I suppose.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 02:13 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ok 10.04 first impressions..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> i want my 9.10 back!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> now!
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30 April 2010 00:04, Anton Xuereb<mewt.reaper@...
>>>>> <mailto:mewt.reaper@...>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> upgrade process changes them again...changing them manually worked
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29 April 2010 23:26, Rodrick Borg<borgrodrick@...
>>>>> <mailto:borgrodrick@...>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I dunno if I understood you problem exactly but to change the
>>>>> download server:
>>>>>
>>>>> go to Systems -> Administration _> Software Sources
>>>>>
>>>>> Then change download from to a new mirror... (You can click
>>>>> Other -> Select Best Server)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Anton Xuereb
>>>>>
<mewt.reaper@...<mailto:mewt.reaper@...>>
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Im trying to do a dist-upgrade to teh latest ubuntu
>>>>> version, unfortunately the automatic updater
>>>>> (update-manager) changes the sources.list file to point
>>>>> to the central ubuntu mirror which as you can guess atm,
>>>>> is slower than watching paint dry.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there some way of forcing it to use a different mirror
>>>>> for the upgrade ? I'd like to be ready at 2am tops.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> M
>>>>>
>>>>>
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