Ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx is released today the 29th April 2010. Now by this time most of you would have done a new install or upgraded from the older ubuntu 9.10 release to the newest release.
 
I am starting this thread to know and share our experiences installing or upgrading ubuntu 10.04.
 
Please share your experience, feedback and thoughts. thanks.

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1 year 40 weeks ago

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  • Hi
    It didn't go well for me(Dell Latitude D400) , and I've only got round to making progress.
    Seriously considers installing another distro.
    When it rebooted it just "hung"
    After several attempts decide to choose different option on Grub.
    Now there is an issue with compiz and no window buttons.
    Good job I had a backup PC
     
    Mike
     

    - Visitor 1 year 32 weeks ago

  • I usually can't wait to upgrade because I guess I have high hopes.  From Koloa to Lucid went ok.  The biggest problem was when it asked about where to add to the MBR.  I thought I added it to the wrong one.  When I rebooted the monitor turned off and nothing happened.  I tried again and again.  So I did a complete upgrade and lost a few things before I realized that Lucid does this on my machine.  Programs seem to hang up or crash more often now.  Kinda like when I was running Mandriva 2006.  Wine also is worthless now, can not run a CD game, some can not copy over to change permisions.  I should go back to Koloa.

    - Visitor 1 year 33 weeks ago

  • Upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 went smoothly for the most part.  The only complaint is that my top task bar was muddled up and I had to reorganize things.

    - Visitor 1 year 34 weeks ago

  • 9.10 Studio to 10.04.
     
    Updated via high speed internet at my local coffee shop.  NO problems at all.
     
    Still loving Ubuntu.

    - Visitor 1 year 37 weeks ago
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    I upgraded on my generic 64bit Intel desktop machine, upgrade was smooth.
     
    Just went to the System, Update Manager and clicked on the upgrade manager. Took  a couple of hours to download the latest bits. Installation went smooth which took around 45 minutes. It cleaned up all the obselete packages and finally rebooted and login, everything was fine.
     
    After a few minutes, the machine hang with keyboard or mouse not working. Still not sure what is the problem. Investigating.... Once found a solution will post here. If anyone found a solution please post here too, thanks.

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    1 year 40 weeks ago

  • I found out why keyboard /mouse not working. The machine doesn't hang, it is still there. PS/2 mouse / keyboard doesn't work. Once i connected back a USB keyboard / mouse and now everything is good. Looks like PS/2 support is gone, but that is not a big deal. Overall upgrade looks good.

    - Visitor 1 year 40 weeks ago

  • EEEBox perfect distribution upgrade from eeebuntu with Beta 2
    Dell Desktop perfect uprade with Beta 2
    Lenovo desktop perfect upgrade with RC
    HP dv6000 laptop perfect upgrade with RC (including broadcom wireless drivers!)
    Dell Desktop dual monitor single issue with compiz reporting "Max Texture size exceeded" after upgrade of RC. Working on it. Worked fine with 9.10
    Everything running nVidia cards.

    - Visitor 1 year 40 weeks ago
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    My upgrade on Dell Inspiron 6000 from Ubuntu karmic kaola 9.10 went great. Ubuntu servers were busy, i think due to everyone trying to update to the latest os. Download went for about 6 hours due to slowness. But after that it took just a couple of hours for the upgrade. Now i have Ubunu 10.04 and works great. Sound, network and all other stuff works great. Not forgot to mention the speed, it is much better than 9.10. Good job by ubuntu team, my KUDOS!!. great work.

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    My upgrade from Karmic didn't go so smoothly on i7 machine.  Download and install went fine.  But,
    1) machine failed to boot (something about Grub_puts_ missing, no grub menus at all) - had to use old Debian install to rescue - just had to run "grub-install /dev/sda".
    2) Then, my wireless keyboard/mouse wouldn't work.  Had to run off to Wal-mart to buy a "generic" keyboard/mouse to get into the system.
    3) Then, DNS didn't configure properly.  No name resolution.  Had to "apt-reconfigure dnsmasq" and it's ok now.
    Glad I had a clue, that would be a vexing combination of issues for alot of people. But, now that I'm "back in" everything else seems to be ok. 

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    My clean install of ubuntu 10.04 on AMD 64 bit didn't go well on a different partition. This machine already had ubuntu 9.10. I used the CD and installation was completed smoothly. But after the reboot all i see was grub rescue> prompt.
     
    Left without clue, i have to fix the corrupted boot loader in ubuntu and got rid of the 10.04 installed partition for now. Sure will try this later. I think the wise idea would be to upgrade my desktop instead of a clean install for now.

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  • Clean install of 64bit version of 10.04 on dell inspiron 6400 didn't go well. After install the system would randomly hang on startup with the top of the screen garbled. Also once booted, the system would fail to restore from a hibernate - i.e. hang. Tried re-installing a couple of times, tested the download image with MD5 for possible corruption ...but ended up with the same random hang on startup. I've now reloaded 64bit 9.10 and all is well. I'll be waiting for 10.10 before attempting another upgrade.
    On a more positive note, a clean install of the 32bit version of 10.04 on my older dell latitude d610 has gone well - although the gnome panel applets sometimes crash on startup (something I've not experienced before - been using ubuntu since 7.10). This is much easier to rectify as simple "kill -9 " of the gnome-panel from a terminal session sorts it out.

    - Visitor 1 year 37 weeks ago
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    I upgraded on 21Aug2010 from 8.04 lts to 10.04 lts and incountered
    same problem with mouse and keyboard. Upgrade goes smoothly and
    can login but after a few minutes the mouse and keyboard become
    unresponsive. I tried both an usb and ps2 mouse. Keyboard is ps2.
    The system is still running. I can connect to the machine from an other
    on the network and transfer files. There are some post at ubuntu regarding
    this problem going back a couple of years. There have been solutions
    proposed of altering the xorg config file and deleting packages and going
    back to older packages. This is not the way to run a manstream operating system.
    I solved problem by reinstalling 8.04 which has run rock solid since its installation.
    I hope it's supported long enough for ubuntu to straighten out 10.04.
    Running a plain box with intel E5300 cpu and intel chipset.

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    1 year 24 weeks ago

  • Clean install of 10.04 ... all went well

    - Visitor 1 year 22 weeks ago

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