How did your ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala install or upgrade go?

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My install of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala went rather well. I installed in a dual-boot situation with Windows Vista on a Dell Studio 17, and Karmic went on with no problems, detected all my hardware, and ran like a champ. Install took about 1 hour, and everything went smooth.

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18 weeks 4 days ago

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My installation was an upgrade from 9.04 jaunty to 9.10 karmic koala on an unbranded machine.

I choose to do a network upgrade by going through System, Administration & Update Manager.

It started with just with a click of a button. I did on the same day of launch. It was for about 5 hours with downloads varying between 20 kb's to 80 kb's. But there was no hiccups or any issues. It went smooth, after all the downloads and installing new packages it prompted for removal of some old packages and that's it.

It prompted me to reboot and voila, logged in worked like a charm within the first time. One more surprise was the sound fix (past 9.04 release had some sound issues with low voice).
For the past few days i am using and never had a problem.

Awesome, One of the greatest ubuntu releases to date. Kudos to the ubuntu team and keep up the good work.

answer by Visitor
18 weeks 4 days ago

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I did download the iso image of 9.10 installer and burned into a CD. It was an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 on my Dell inspiron6000.
In spite of having the CD and an upto date 9.04 version, it failed to upgrade from CD. All options somehow led to an online upgrade. So the CD was of no use. With my slow internet connection of 256kbps it took almost 9 hours to install. After following all the install steps from wizard it rebooted into 9.10 to find that my touchpad not working, wifi not working and desktop effects disabled.
For all my previous ubuntu upgrades it was a smooth experience not sure what went wrong this time. I doubt this failure is because I selected to use local copy of 'menu.lst' when installer asked me. I am going to try to fix this menu.lst and check if it works once I find some time.

Cheers
@gopikori (twitter)

answer by Visitor
18 weeks 3 days ago

Works fine on my HP Mini 1000, Dell 6400, Lenovo 3000N200 and Quad Xeon
Build Server and Dell Inspiron Desktop. Audio - fine, Video - improved,
Suspend/Resume - rock solid.

- Visitor 17 weeks 5 days ago

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I upgraded and I think it's gone backwards. My laptop is significantly
slower and I get a warning every time I boot up that my system may be
unstable.<br>
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My system has started to freeze up.

answer by Visitor
18 weeks 1 day ago

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2 Fresh installs, 2 minor problems.

Problem 1: Printer issue using HPLIP-GUI
Problem 2: network-manager-vpnc breaking local network DNS search path

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18 weeks 20 hours ago

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one upgrade in ubuntu remix, really no problem ! wifi 100 % ok,
bluetouth peripherals working far better than under windows seven.
Ubuntu 9.04 was a good OS but 9.10 is really a very good OS and nice !

answer by Visitor
18 weeks 20 hours ago

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the upgrading to karmic koala was very expensive in time.
once installed, I had two problems:

1) VirtualBox don't run.
2) When i use Eclipse IDE, sometimes the touchpad don't respond

answer by Visitor
18 weeks 20 hours ago

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This new release works very fine. I replaced the
"old" release 9.04 and I've done a (partially) clean installation: new
root partition (format) but without delete my original home partition:
the result was a system fully functional in a very little time...very
good.

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18 weeks 18 hours ago

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I've made an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 on my Satellite U205. Just 2 problems:
- touchpad Synaptis Alps/PS2 did'nt connected, but it was detected. I'ver tried several foruns about the subject but with no results;
- my fan is constantly running, more than with 9.04.
I've tried to fix this in the menu.lst but always with no solution.

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18 weeks 7 hours ago

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1 upgrade. Biggest problem was that my laptop mousepad didn't function
after the upgrade. After gogling the issue, found it to be an issue
between Grub2 and the legacy-grub. Haven't had any other problems and I
think it is definately an improvement over 9.04. Can't wait to see what
is in store for 10.04.

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17 weeks 6 days ago

POORLY-
I used the installed supplied.. to Dual Boot.. Allowed UB to Partition.. Selected 14GB.. OK..
UB runds great.. Wndows FATAL ERROR.. BLUE SCREEN.. No AUTOCHECK INSTANT FAILURE EVERY TIME.. Bummer..
Will need to start over with Windows.. BAD DAY-
Todd

- Visitor 8 weeks 2 days ago

i always do a first install using debootstrap using a local mirror, and
still running from the beta since oct 4, after a few glitches (while in
beta, RC), everything seems very good. faster boot times, i like the
new Bluetooth plugin. Since then I have installed on 1 x netbook, 2 x
desktops. Would recommend to anyone

- Visitor 15 weeks 2 days ago

Upgrade was smooth. I was concerned my Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG might failed after it, however all went fine.
The only issue I have faced after my upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 was that my CrossOver is no longer responding when I execute it.
I still need to run some investigation on this to see what the issue is

- Visitor 15 weeks 5 days ago

5 installs, one problem with the new ATI / Radeon Xorg driver. Sofved by using the one from Jaunty.... No other problems, and I'm liking UbuntuOne alot!

- Visitor 16 weeks 3 hours ago

I have faced Space issues to upgrade 9.04 to 9.10 ( new version would
require 3+ GB in the root partition). I removed some of the
applications and installed karmic.

- Visitor 16 weeks 3 days ago

Installed 9.10 on Thinkpad R500, and arises the same old problems, no WLAN support for the BCM Broadcom WLAN driver.

It's been a disaster... 9.10 has been nothing but one issue after another on my Dell XPS M1710 and I am planning to go back to 9.04 as soon as I some time.
The install itself was no big deal, but... there are a host of problems with this version of the OS including but not limited to...

1 - screen will not rebrighten if it is dimmed (50%) after a period of inactivity
2 - wireless modem won't connect to wireless networks periodically since the last update a few days ago
Here I know it's not the modem because when I boot into vista everything works fine... modem will not reinitialize the connection or connect to anything.

3 - random application stalling or shutdowns
4 - constant crash alerts

Stability issues, bugs and crashes aside I am not sure what the Ubuntu / Canonical team was thinking in this version. Even if everything was working 100% this version seems like a massive step backwards particularrly in the software center, system settings, etc... It seems like the took out more than they put in.
By comparison Jackalope was a dream from day 1. Fully featured, smooth, efficient, stable and it's natural state seemed to be connected to wireless networks no matter how weak the signal was.

I am ready to kill the koala.

- Visitor 17 weeks 1 day ago

I upgraded from 9.40 to 9.10, Everything is fine.. and some of my extra
button on keyboard now is functioning perfectly. I install ubuntu on
acer 4520 .. this release is great

- Visitor 17 weeks 2 days ago

I upgraded from 9.04 on a Dell Inspiron E1505 which I dual boot with the RC of Windoze7. (BTW, I like W7 ... except for the price; most users would be better served by Ubuntu.)
Frankly, I do all my personal PC work on Ubuntu machines. I run Windows because I'm a tech who services PCs that run Windows and I need to keep up to date on their problems and solutions.

- Visitor 17 weeks 4 days ago

The install was fine (a fresh install). But the grub got messed up and required quite a bit of tweaking before I could get Ubu 9.1 up and running. Mounting network drives (on my Windoze7 PC) is easier both at startup and shutdown (in 9.04, it took forever to shutdown unless I manually smbumounted the network drives), however, two of the five network drives setup in fstab won't automount (have to manually mount).
My build is:
Gigabyte Mobo (EP45-UD3L) with Intel Core2Duo E8200 CPU, 8GB RAM, GeForce 9500 GT GPU. A good system but would gladly exchange the Mobo for a more Linux-friendly one.

(On a side note, I'd like to see the Linux Foundation write a letter to mfrs to encourage them to provide linux-friendly BIOS flash capabilities. I'm grateful for FreeDOS, but why do I need to do the workaround? These mfrs need to know what the global numbers are on linux users.)

ubun2^beta