Ubuntu :: Ubuntu Upgrade To New Distro?
Apr 18, 2010
I'm currently using hardy 8.04 i tried to upgrade to version 8.10 finished the upgrade and restarted everything .the problem I'm having is concerning the desktop effect's that i ran with 8.04 i wanted to run the same effect's with compiz but won't work for some reason on this distro i tried to reinstall compiz but nothing i reinstalled 8.04 on a separate partition and it works fine is there something with the 8.10 distro upgrade that i was suppose to do during the upgrade? i moved all my files over to 8.04 from a rescue disk i made is there something that has to be fixed on 8.10 to let the desktop effect's to work at this point i don't know what to do...
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Oct 23, 2010
I upgraded Netbook edition from Lucid to Maverick, and it's gone horribly wrong. It may be because I had set up the a Gnome session in Lucid so that I could add and remove applets to panel in while still having the netbook session layout.
After distro upgrade I ended up with a hybrid system with both the unity launcher AND the Lucid-style UNE launcher. Unity does not recognise any of my installed software, e.g open office or bibus in "Office". UNE launcher does. There is also no option of Gnome session at login, only Desktop and Netbook!
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Jan 13, 2010
I've just attempted a distro upgrade (to 9.10) and have been left with a machine in an unbootable state.
I tried using a recovery boot through Grub and can see that the boot process hangs after outputting:
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swap: waiting for UUID=$random-string$
If I ESC to get a prompt, I get:
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General error mounting filesystems
I can't run dpkg-reconfigure as I get a read-only filesystem error.
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Sep 20, 2010
So I finally said screw it to the last problem I had with my ubuntu a few days ago, where it was trying to upgrade to a brick. I went in, backed up my Home, var, etc, and usr folders to my external harddrive, then formatted the partition and threw ubuntu in there.
Anyways, I just have a quick question, Since I just installed it, which one would be better to do first?
Apt-get upgrade or Apt-get dist-upgrade
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Jan 14, 2010
I've just attempted a distro upgrade (to 9.10) and have been left with a machine in an unbootable state.
I tried using a recovery boot through Grub and can see that the boot process hangs after outputting:
Code:
If I ESC to get a prompt, I get:
Code:
I can't run dpkg-reconfigure as I get a read-only filesystem error.
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Apr 22, 2010
I have 0MB left on my Wubi disk. How do I enlarge the virtual partition for Wubi if I don't have enough space to install anything?
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Jun 3, 2011
I tried to upgrade to v10.04 ("Lucid"). After nearly 15 hours of painfully slow downloading and installing, my computer froze, just as the upgrade was almost complete. Needless to say, my Linux kernel is now wasted. what is the best way to proceed? I would like to get theOS going again, without losing any of my data or files. I also have a Windoze partition on that HD, which needs to be preserved.
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Jun 9, 2011
My distribution upgrade got interrupted in a hard way and when I start the computer I get some errors:
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kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root on block 0, 0
or sth like this and a few more errors. Can't look the exact message as I am writing from the liveCD. On Gparted the boot looks normal and it is said that it's mounted but there is no mount point. There are things on the hard drive that I must save.
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Mar 17, 2011
Now, every time I run update manager, it tells me to run a partial upgrade. I can close the window and proceed upgrading packages,but if I let it try the partial upgrade is starts a distribution upgrade !??! I am currently running 11.04.
How can I stop update manager from trying to update my distro version?
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Jun 19, 2011
so my update manager keeps saying I have updated everything, but it won't show the new 11.04 release. I did everything the documentation says, including change the release upgrade file so its pointed to normal distro upgrades.
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Jun 10, 2010
Suffice to say I had a dual boot at work with an essential windows 7 and non-essential linux install on it, and randomly upgrading the distro made windows7 unbootable. Cue a missed days work, much embarrassment and ear bashing from those who are convinced Linux is written entirely by communists and hippies. In the end I had to re-install windows, which cut off the ability to boot to ubuntu - although I've left the existing ubuntu partitions as they were.
Although I can get away with allocating a few partitions to ubuntu, I can't really justify fiddling with the MBR based upon this experience. I need a fast boot and persistent data for doing anything further with ubuntu at work, so I'm wondering whether a safer bet would be to setup a usb stick with enough grub to boot to the existing ubuntu install? Not a full usb distribution, just enough to boot into the existing install? how this would be doneIs it really just a grub-install /dev/sdXX (where XX is the usb)?
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Mar 28, 2010
I want to upgrade from another distro to ubuntu server for a few reasons. The only problem is I have a lot of data that needs to survive. here is how my computer is setup. I've 5 drives on the computer,
A- 10gb drive for OS and swap only, no data
B,C,D,E - 4x 500 GB drives in a LVM. they make up one large drive with xfs and this volume has about 1.2 TB of data. there is nothing fancy on it, no encryption and no software raid of course the little 10gb drive can be formatted no problem, but the LVM needs to be migrated over intact.
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Apr 5, 2011
Getting sound to work in Linux has been nearly impossible since I upgraded from Ubuntu Jaunty to Karmic. I finally had it working for about 6 months in Fedora 12, then I upgraded to 14. </rant> When I install pulse, I can hear the login sound on KDE, and the KDE error sounds, and that's it. I can't even hear sounds from the test button in the Phonon settings.With ALSA alone,I get absolutely nothing. I've already been through this which was minimal help.
Here's the output from alsa-info: [URL]
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Feb 25, 2010
Pretty soon, I hope, I'll get my brand new PC and wish to install a Linux disto. on it. openSuse may be it But I read recently that people prefer to do a fresh install of a newer version of openSuse, instead of upgrading it, apparently because of problems that may occur by the upgrade. As I understand, this preference apply to all Linux distributions and not only openSuse. Thus I wonder if there's a Linux distro. that's best in handling upgrades?I don't want to make a fresh new install each and every time that my disro. has a new version. I'm afraid to lose the data in that installation, and backing-up the data would be a headache. Also I plan to install a Windows OS alongside the Linux one via the Dual Boot configuration.
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Jan 9, 2010
nominate a disastrous distro from past or present that was simply AWFUL and what exactly was so bad about it?
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Sep 6, 2010
I have a linux box set up as a multi-purpose server for my home with three Windows client PC's. The linux box is based on a slightly modified Slackware 9.0 distribution using Linux 2.4.20 and an unfortinately old, slow AMD processor with a miserable 512Kb RAM. The linux box serves the CIFS file system to the Windows boxes, runs the SQUID HTTP proxy, the Apache web server, a print server, does masquerading, mail serving and a very effective firewall using iptables.
This system, although slow, has run perfectly for several years.Let me say that again - This system works perfectly.I had decided that now is the time to upgrade the hardware, so I bought a Gigabyte LGA775 motherboard which has two 1Gb network interfaces on it, an ASUS 256Mb PCI-E display card, 2Gb of DDR3 RAM, an Intel Core2-Quad processor and a bunch of 500Gb SATA drives to set up a RAID5 array (but I intend that the system boot off one of several 40Gb PATA drives I have).I set up the processor, motherboard, display card, RAM, a SATA DVD Drive and a 40Gb PATA hard disk in a "breadboard" layout and installed distro 13.1, being careful to set up the static IP for the local network, dhcpcd to get an IP address from the cable modem (my internet connection) and to enable ip_forward in the network configuration.
Then I installed a script invoked by /etc/rc.d/rc.local which installed all the SAME iptables rules as my old Linux box. There was one minor glitch when I had to change 8 occurrences of "-d ! $LOCAL_NET to" "! --destination $LOCAL_NET" but that was no problem. I also set up /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts , the BIND server files etc. etc. exactly as in the old box.
I am able to ping mirror.aarnet.edu.au (this is at the heart of Australia's internet hub network - if it's down the whole bloody thing is down) and have the system find the correct IP from the designated nameservers and contact that server with a return trip time of 35ms. I am able to run a telnet session from one of the Windows boxes and edit files on the Linux server. So both network interfaces work and I've got them the right way around.I am able to run FTP on one of the Windows boxes and connect through to mirror.aarnet.edu.au, although it seems to hang when I try a DIR (but then so does the old linux system).
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Mar 10, 2011
M busy upgrading one of my clients old Debain etch boxes to Lenny but i keep on getting this error.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 22.
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: syntax error: unknown user `root' in statoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
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Dec 15, 2010
Lubuntu is nice - but it seems the LXDE version is not as up to date as Fedora LXDE Spin or even Debian squeeze with LXDE installed. I do like Chromium on Lubuntu though... its faster and a nice touch. I am looking for a lightweight 64-bit distribution for my main laptop (it is by no means "old" or "low spec" but I like that Lubuntu starts up in like 2 secs).
LXDE version seems not to be recent (esp in 10.04 version which seems to work more stably for me - with Nvidia drivers etc)64 bit install is currently a pain - requires first install of minimal CD or alternate CD both of which required wired Ethernet, then install of lubuntu from PPA. Native 64-bit support would be nice. Linux Mint LXDE, for example, is also only 32-bit.
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Feb 12, 2011
I keep getting the following msg as I try to upgrade from 10.04 -> 10.10 ... "Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report." I don't think any of the issues above apply - can anyone offer advice on how to get around or "force " the upgrade
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Jan 4, 2010
I have been using ubuntu for ages now and is 1 of my fav operating systems.
I would however like a distro which is ubuntu based except its basically blank.
for example there is a distro called tiny core linux (and micro core linux is the command line version) at 6 and 10 mb depending on which 1 u get.
I would basically like a distro like the micro core linux at 6mb but ubuntu based so i can build it from scratch exactly how i like without all the crap i dont want or use, which i can obviously insall ubuntu compiled apps on.
i kno there is linux from scratch but after playing for a short while its just 2 'scratchy' for me.
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Sep 30, 2010
I have an old PC that runs win XP (slowish...) and was my faithful PC for 5 years. Alas, its RAM has degraded and it never had a graphics card to speak of, but it has a nice 1.6GHz CPU and a 80GB HDD. I'm thinking of using it has the network storage server, or just a second backup PC - and I want it as a file server to store my extra stuff.
Specs:
RAM: 192MBs (really degraded)
CPU: 1.6GHz AMD KM400
graphics: A graphics chip of 16MBs
HDD: 80GBs
It also has a optical drive capable of reading DVDs and writing CDs (but I'm not so sure on that one) and 6 USB ports. Which distro should I go for? I was thinking Xubuntu, and I don't want a server edition as me and CLIs are fine but not friends!
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Feb 19, 2010
My Desktop only has a 60GB HDD which I am running Linux Xuuntu on. I just found a 40GB HDD that I install into the desktop as well. What I really wanna do with it is wipe it clean and then format it to be accessible from my Linux Distro like "Extra Memory" for storing things like music etc. I'm having trouble doing this. It reads in Gparted but not quite sure what I need to do to do this.
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Jun 14, 2010
We work in school, and create linux distro for her. Manager wanted "Original name for distro", is "Education OS of School Patrik". How change name in distro? "Ubuntu" on "Education OS....".
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Jul 19, 2010
which linux distro should be used on a tablet pc. Some of them may seem unrelated, but they are not. I am looking to buy a very thin, very lightweight tablet pc, just like the ipad. However, I can not get the Ipad itself, because it does not have a USB port, and I must have at least one USB port on the tablet.
1. Which linux distro would you install on a tablet pc, (such as the ipad or archos 9) and why? I would like to be able to run a windows OS, simply because that is what I am accustomed to. But alas, I can not. The perfect tablet for me was canceled for this very reason. The HP "Slate". As was the Microsoft brand "Courier" tablet. They were both going to run some lighter weight version of Windows 7, but even that drained the battery so fast that HP ended up canceling the product. So I have to come up with another good OS, that is very lightweight. I really like the look of Kubuntu. Is there any reason I shouldn't install Kubuntu on my tablet PC?
2. Is there a linux mobile? You know how they have windows, mobile, and apple has their little mobile mac OS? Is there a linux mobile type of GUI OS that Would be beneficial to a tablet? Or is linux so conservative on resources, that I could install a full linux OS on a tablet PC such as the joo joo or ipad?
3. Would the system requirements of Kubuntu/Ubunutu/any other distro be easier on a tablet PC's resources than some of the other available OS's for tablets? Do I even have that part right? I am assuming that I can get a full OS on a tablet if I just use a linux distro. But it has to have all the goods. Such as...everything. All the stuff that you would come to expect from a good, full OS. Not some hacked off, scaled down version made to just barely work, so you lose a lot of functionality. 3-D games excluded, of course. I am talking about good touch screen support, good wireless network support, Bluetooth, 3G, webcam, the works.
4. Do you think that apps from Google's android OS would work on Ubuntu/Kubuntu? It is linux based, supposedly. So therefore maybe some of the apps might work?
5. Why are there so many versions of Kubuntu? For example: Right now, 9.1 is available. But they are working on 10.01. So uh... what are you missing out on by just keeping kubuntu 9 and not upgrading to kubuntu 10? I am used to windows, where any updates are free through "Windows Update". So can you just update from kubuntu 9 to kubuntu 10 without having to wipe your hard drive and install a new OS? How does all that work? How does kubuntu/ubuntu differ when it comes to the update process? I don't want to be behind and miss out on new functionality, but at the same time I don't want to have to wipe my hard drive and install the latest version of the distro every year and a half or two years. Can't you just continually update like with windows? I don't think that you can, cause all the linux distros that I have tried, have all said something like "This distribution will be supported until 9/9/99" or something like that. That is a fake date, but you get the idea. They have an expiration date, and if you want all the latest and greatest goodies, then you need to update to the newest version of the distro. I just don't understand how the update process works with linux, at all.
6. And a last, seemingly unrelated question. Do the Android phones do the whole jailbreak thing? Can they become like little wireless routers like the iphone can? This may also be a reason to use google's android OS on my tablet.
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Sep 21, 2010
I am trying to introduce Linux to 7th Grade kids in my society. I have got some very very old PC's with 128MB RAM and some with 256 MB RAM. The processor speed is 1GHZ to 1.5GHZ for most of them. which Linux Distribution will be suitable for it. I want to install them on Hard Disk & rather than booting from the USB drives every time.
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Oct 19, 2010
my names IAN I'm a Ubuntu and Debian user i have a hp desktop I'm working on P4 2.6ghz 2gigs DDR333 80gig wester digital Nvidia Geforce 7600gs 350watt P/supply in a BIG OLD custom asus case plus LED fans so no overheating issues =) [URL] i have tried and failed to install pretty much everything in my dvd case Ubuntu 10.04+10.1 and Mint both Debian and Deb-net install fedora 13 openSUSE 10 nothing worked ALL RANDOMLY crash or freeze during the file transfer/installation and i mean RANDOM i have been unable to produce the same results twice.
i did as expected i searched Google and trouble shooted and all i can think of is bad ram so i ran memtest86 by pass 5 i had over 1000 errors have i found my bottle neck?? is it common to have so many that errors with the ram test Windows 7 seems to be the only thing that will load wye will shitty windows install and run fine NO lag when i cant get anything thing else passed a file transfer?? oh and has a new hard drive/thats not the issue. i first posted this in the Debian forums but after failing to get Ubuntu to run either i came to the friendly local forum
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Mar 26, 2011
I know it's a noob question but I can't find the answer any where. What does R3 mean for the WattOS distro?
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Dec 25, 2010
I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 for a few days now, it is a nice OS but at times I feel its bloated and feel even slower than windows xp or even my windows 7 which I'm dual booting. I'm looking for a distro that's similar speed wise to windows xp while still being relatively easy to use/install as well as a gui.
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May 14, 2010
I am considering installing Linux on my workstation to develop and run fortran codes much faster than windows. I wonder if there is significant speed difference between Linux distros. Especially between Redhat and Ubuntu or Debian. I havent used any Linux distro longer enough to have an idea about its speed while running long codes.
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Jan 2, 2010
How do I move a custom theme from a 7.10 distro on my hardrive to the 9.10 distro on the same hardrive? It's probably easy. I want to remove the 7.10 version but don't want to lose a custom theme I put together.
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