[ale] Upgrading to 9.10 hosed my system :-(

[DANIEL S LAMBERT]

I just upgraded both my desktop (AMD Phenom Quad, 4 GB RAM, ATI Graphics) and m laptop (Thinkpad X60S, 4 GB RAM, Intel graphics) over the last two days, and neither one of them gave me any issue.

The only real issue during the entire process was the extremely slow DL speed from the servers on Friday. Yesterday, I upgraded the laptop, and it went much quicker.

Everything works on both. I got one crash notice on each, both having to do with deprecated memory issues (ECC on the AMD64 platform) and sound (apparently an anomalous error).

I have KDE and Gnome desktops loaded on both platforms, and I've yet to find a problem with either desktop on either machine.

Dan




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From: Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sun, November 1, 2009 8:45:08 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Upgrading to 9.10 hosed my system :-(

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, JK wrote:

> I just upgraded my excellent 9.04 Ubuntu box to 9.10, and now all has

Personally, I find that "upgrading" any OS is a roll of the dice,
unless the machine to be upgraded is very generic and has not been
tweaked, tuned or much additional software installed on.

Boot from CD, recover your personal stuff and try a fresh install.
Consider multiple partitions, a partition for your personal data.

> It is a sad state of affairs for a person who first built a 0.90
> kernel off floppies in 1992.)

Built a < 1.0 kernel in '94, with a lot of help from friends.
It took some real "cross your fingers" and wait karma.

And I'll be doing a backup and fresh install on my laptop soon,
when I have a break in the normal chaos of things to play.
I've been hearing good things about 9.10 Desktop from others.

I put a 9.10 server online yesterday just to play with, installed
on an old Pentium 4 w/512k ram just fine. After playing with it,
loading a website using MySQL and PHP, it was running in approx 250k
of ram, a good sign.





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