Ubuntu :: Upgrade The Physical Computer?
Dec 1, 2010
I am currently using linux on my old system (store bought Gateway). I am building a new computer for Christmas. This is how I want things to go down: Set up new computer > install new hard-drive (as primary) > install (this) hard-drive (as secondary) > copy full contents from current drive to new drive > boot from new drive > Use (this) hard-drive from there on out as a backup/storage.
Will this work? Will a new mobo/processor combo mess any with my current system as a whole? I know that when I use to use gentoo everything was compiled "system specific", however, I do not believe ubuntu operates this way (well they are both goign to be a 64bit capable processor, which I think is about as specific as ubuntu gets)
Furthermore, I will be transfering my current videocard (GeForce 9800 GTX+) into the new system, so I will not need to configure any new video drivers. But what about audio? I currently use onboard audio, and will be using the new mobos audio as well.
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Mar 14, 2010
I occasionally have friends using my home computer. They just use my account.There are some files that I want to hide/protect from people using my computer. It's not that I need highly secure encryption, it's more like I want to make sure people don't accidentally see my porn collection if they borrow my computer to check their email.Is there a way to set up a folder such that it's required to enter a password (e.g. the admin password) to see it's content? Probably I could change the owner of the folder, so that I can't access it without password?How do you protect/hide your secret or intimate files?
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Apr 22, 2011
I use Ubuntu 10.10 on an old laptop with 1.7 GHz Pentium M processor, 1 GB RAM, and Intel 915GM graphic chip. Of course the performance is low but it is acceptable. Especially because the graphic chip has poor 3D performance I'm worried if I should upgrade to the approaching Ubuntu 11.04 and GNOME 3. What do you recommend?
Would it be an option to upgrade Ubuntu but continue to use GNOME 2? Is it recommendable to use the 2D fallback mode of GNOME 3?
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Jun 1, 2010
While upgrading to a newer version of Ubuntu I noticed a warning saying that the installation/upgrade should not be interupted. Unfortunately though, during this process my computer froze up and I had to shut it down. Ubuntu no longer starts on my computer. I still have Windows though, which is what I'm using now.
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May 6, 2010
My computer made it to the "Cleaning up" phase, and then overheated. Any ideas on how I might finish the process manually?
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Oct 9, 2010
Last night I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 and now my system is bugged. If I accidentally enter the wrong credentials at login, the computer freezes - consistently. This happens at login on startup and when unlocking the screen after it goes to sleep. Additionally, my fingerprint reader which is built in and worked perfectly before the upgrade is causing the computer to freeze after a scan to login or unlock the computer. I haven't noticed any advantages to this newer "lighter" version of ubuntu so I'm not at all opposed to a complete downgrade back to 10.04.Unless someone has a straight solution to this problem - which I doubt, just let me know how I can downgrade my kernel back to a stable version that actually functions to basic standards..
P.S. I know that the upgrade deleted/turned off some "uneeded" or absolete repositories, so I went thru and reinstalled all those involved with the fingerprint scanner, and still the same results, even after a restart so..
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May 4, 2010
I was put somewhat in charge of a server last semester running Ubuntu. It serves as a router and general purpose computer for a robotics lab. Yesterday, I went do dist-upgrade using the command line, and ran into a couple of bugs with gtk libraries which I fixed based on the bug reports. However, the computer decided to reboot for some reason in the middle of the upgrade and killed the running OS. I currently have it up on a Debian recovery CD. I can't get past intramfs without the CD. It is dying somewhere in rsyslog with an error about a broken pipe. I am not sure where to go from here. I will post actual error messages when I get back infront of the machine. No one knows how the machine was set up in the first place and it holds a few secrets we need to keep, so reinstall is the last option.
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Jul 31, 2010
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, and ever since last upgrade a couple of days ago (I think), everytime I hit shutdown on the gnome-panel (admittedly, I haven't tried the command line shutdown) the computer restarts itself. This computer is dual-booted with Win 7, and the shutdown command there properly halts the system.
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Nov 9, 2010
I was upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 when my laptop crashed due to a HW issue not related to upgrade. But now when I start:
1) The laptop, it boots up till the point GDM log in screen is displayed without any log-in option. The system does not respond to any keyboard or mouse actions.
2) when I try to recover (recovery mode), the boot process comes til a point where it says "Console: switching to color frame buffer device 180x56"
And the prompt just stays there. It does not not drop to terminal. When I choose an older option in the grub, I do get dropped to initramfs prompt. How to restore my machine. re-instillation is not an option as I have some data I need in the home directory.
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Dec 4, 2010
My daughter rebooted my computer while it was upgrading from Karmic to Lucid.
Now, of course, it won't reboot
"[ 0.683646]Kernel panic - not syncing: - VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"
I do have a very current backup of /home
I don't have a backup of any configuration files (/etc/conf and so on?)
I think that I will have to overwrite the whole installation and then restore my /home directory, which will mean tweaking all my software installations again?
Is this my best plan of action?
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Dec 27, 2010
While updating from 10.04 to 10.10, the PC got accidentaly rebooted. After that I am unable to start even 10.04. A small window tells that GNOME manager didnot install properly. The PC hangs after tat. How do I restore the 10.04 version without reinstalling it.
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Apr 30, 2011
I upgraded the computer at work from 10.10 to 11.04 yesterday and that went okay. Some issues, but I can work them out. I thought I'd get the computer at home done yesterday too, but that failed. I'm now operating off of a USB drive. I also have Windows7 that I was able to function off of (probably have 3 hours logged on Windows in the last 4 months). Anyway, I have an AMD64 with 4 hard drives, of which we have 2 RAID settings so it's more like 2 hard drives.
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May 24, 2011
Just wanted to upgrade my desktop computer and after the terminal shows:
Installling new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd ...cups start/running, process 7944
The display froye, mouse does not move any more, keyboard does nothing, no chance to escape into a text terminal. Nada. After rebooting the system I get a kernel panic. This is now second of two upgrades to 11.04 that failed, and I do not know how often upgrades failed previously, but rather often.
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Aug 2, 2011
Last night I decided to upgrade to Natty Narwhal 11.04 from MM10.10. I tried to leave it to install overnight.
Some bright spark turned off the power supply to my computer.
I don't know exactly what stage the installation was at, but it must have been installing the upgrade at least, because I'm now locked out of my computer.
Boot up progresses until the ubuntu loading screen. At this point is says,
'Ubuntu 10.10'
The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present Continue to wait; or press s to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.
(If I press 'S', it says something like 'cannot find /tmp folder')
I don't know if the upgrade installation was completed, but I suspect not, because the power was turned off just an hour into the installation. Also it still tries to load Ubuntu 10.10.
Anything I can do besides formatting for a fresh 11.04 install? If only to save some files?
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Jan 3, 2010
I recently upgraded to win7 (home premium 64bit) from win vista and everything went well. But when i was installing ubuntu i noticed that win vista was taking up part of the C drive (like 10 gigs!) (i saw this in the part of the instalation where you set the ubuntu partition.) SO anyway i was wondering if anyone knew a way to completely get rid of the vista kernel and free up that space its taking up.
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May 9, 2010
in Ubuntu 10.04 I have updated my system with command: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and I see new kernel was installed. Now restart is required. I don't like to restart this computer, because it should be up and running as much time as possible. Is there any way I could only re-run some kind of kernel module or something like that instead of restarting whole computer?
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Oct 14, 2010
I was upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 and the computer completely froze and I restarted it thinking I would be able to restart the update where I left off (I'm new to ubuntu). However when I restart I can't get anywhere, if I boot normally the ubuntu screen comes up and then it stops with the computer name in the middle of the screen and thats it (can't do anything i can't get into shell via ctrl-alt-f1 etc..) if i use the recovery from the grub menu it loads a bunch of things then stops i can't type anything but I can switch using ctrl-alt-f1 and ctrl-alt-f7 but I don't see anything except:
under ctrl-alt-f1 the last line reads:
[2.711773] composite sync not supported
under ctrl-alt-f7: the last lines read
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
init: udevtrigger main process (421) terminated with status 1
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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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Apr 11, 2011
I really want to start using blender and was wondering if I would be better off upgrading my ram (I've got 1.2 GB) or my hard drive (15 GB free) for better results. And, correct me if I am wrong, I don't think that blender makes extensive use of your video card does it? I have a Radeon 9550.
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Feb 23, 2010
I seem to have a small problem. Since september, i hooked up an old Acer laptop (with just 560 RAM and a 16 mib graphical card) to a computer screen, a keyboard and a mouse, so that i had an extra 'computer' for my mother to use. Old people prefer bigger screens to ponder upon.
But anyways, each time i want to update or upgrade the 9.04 Ubuntu distribution, it freezes. This is quite annoying since i really want it to upgrade to 9.10, for possible faster results.
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May 8, 2010
My knowledge of how Linux works is very limited. I've used it for about a year, but just doing very basic tasks (browsing the Internet, listening to music, etc).
Anyway, I upgraded to the newest edition of Ubuntu and installed the new Grub as the update seemed to recommend installing it to every partition and hard drive. I've seen that other people are now having issues from doing that as well.
I am able to boot into Linux just fine; it is working great. However, when I attempted to load Windows XP from Grub, the computer would just restart. I followed the recommendation listed here: http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/sh...95&postcount=3 which seemed to fix the problem for Windows 7 users. Now, all I get when I attempt to load XP is a blank screen with nothing but a blinking cursor (but hey, at least the computer isn't just automatically re-booting, that's some sort of progress...maybe...)
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Jul 2, 2010
kernel upgrade to 2.6.32-23-generic after i did this ... when im using 2 vmwares, it massivesly laggs my main OSS (ubuntu) then i went back to 2.6.32-22-generic <- and all came back to normal..when im running 4 Vmwares, it still doesnt lagg my main oss
6gb ram
c2d e8200
ubuntu 10.04 64bits
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Aug 20, 2010
On one of my computers I did something I rarely do--used the version upgrade method. I went from 9.10 to 10.04. I normally upgrade by burning a CD, wiping / and clean installing the new version.
This HP desktop was BLAZINGLY fast prior to this; now it's slower than frozen molasses.
Seriously, it's awful. It's like everything freezes, including the clock--say it's 1:11:23, it stops there and when it starts again it'll be 1:14:05 (or whatever!). And it does that continually. Meanwhile the trackball works as far as moving the pointer, but it's impossible to actually *do* anything.
I'm really, really glad I left my other four computers running 9.10 for the time being.
I'm going to do a fresh install with a CD, but I'm just curious if anyone else has had this experience after doing a version upgrade? I did it this time because I'm lazy and it was so easy!
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Jun 20, 2011
I have Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope running on my home PC (dual boot with Win XP) and have received notification that this will no longer be supported and I should upgrade to 11.04. I have a slow and costly internet connection at home and don't want to download the upgrade directly onto my computer there.Is it possible to download the upgrade somewhere else and burn to a CD to run in my home computer? I see I can do this for a new install but was wondering if it is possible for an upgrade?
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Feb 12, 2010
Two weeks ago my computer started freezing on start up when plugged in. It was suggested to upgrade the APM. What is this and is it not updated through the package update? If not how do I upgrade it?
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May 8, 2010
So I attempted to Upgrade 2 days ago from 9.10 to 10.04. I started the upgrade and left my computer alone as it said it would take several hours. When I returned to check on it, It told me the the installation had failed and it was attempting to roll back to the previous installation. Afterward I couldn't access anything on my computer. I'd click a icon and it wouldn't do anything. I manually restarted it and was greeted with a message that it couldn't boot because there was no mount specified.
Since I had backed up all my files I tried to just reinstall ubuntu. However even after I reinstalled I'm greeted with the same message.
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Oct 21, 2010
i did the upgrade thru the update manager but when i rebooted my comp, my computer didnt go pass the black screen with the bar blinking. what black screen im talking about
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Oct 16, 2010
Before the update my computer was named "joe-laptop", (i think it was the host name is what its called, that was named "joe-laptop". Along with that, on my KDE session/desktop (I installed Ubuntu, but later got the kubuntu desktop packages) I had the gnomes network manager used instead of KDEs (kdes network manager was giving me problems, I would type the password in for my wifi router, then it would stall, then ask again as if its ignoring the password. but thats not important so im not gonna get into that whole part (at least yet)).
When i upgraded from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 the login screen said "localhost.localdomain" rather than "joe-laptop", and in the terminal it says "joe@localhost", rather than "joe@joe-laptop", along with that it kicked KDEs network manager back into use on the kde desktop, which means I can't access the internet on kde now.
I'm trying to fix the network manager part myself, but if I can't get that Ill post in this thread or edit this post. I was able to previously get gnomes network manager to load over it so I'm sure I'll hit it again.
I figured out the problem, it turns out that the name problem was that it deleted the /etc/hosts file, so i just copied the older hosts I backed up a month or so ago and slapped it in there and it worked perfect.
As for getting the gnome network manager, it must not be compatible with the qtcurve gtk theme, cause I switched it the gtk theme to a newer one, then loaded back up nm-applet and bam it came up there!
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Apr 28, 2011
I upgraded to 11.04 today, and ever since the upgrade my speakers (and headphones; any audio device) emit a high-pitched shriek when connected to the computer. This only happens after I enter my password on the login screen, and only in Ubuntu. There's no problem when I boot Windows.
The sound is very high pitched and my speakers play no other generated sounds while emitting this static. Obviously, I'd like to be able to have sound and listen to my music, so this needs to be fixed.
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Jun 27, 2011
I installed a 30 gig hard drive for extra storage space. It is currently using the ext2 file system. When looking at it in gparted, there is a key icon next to the drive. I would like to use this drive for storage with programs running in WINE, but can't even see the drive from there. From the normal OS, I can see and mount the drive, but can't use it for anything.
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that the key icon means it is locked somehow. How do I unlock/use this drive? Is there a command to use in the terminal, or within the Disk Utility that will do it?
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