Well, here's my experience with the update process. Bear in mind that I'm a sort-of newbie here...not to Linux, but to Kubuntu and Debian- based systems.
I added the deb [WWW] http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-proposed main repository (since I didn't have the KDE 3.5.6. packages installed) and installed the about 65 megs worth of updates found, although the distro-updater was not one of them. At this point I was using Synaptic if it makes any difference (it shouldn't). After the update, I ended my session and logged in again (some KDE-libs were updated so I figured it was a good idea). I launched Synaptic, and clicked fetch updates and the upgrade tool was fetched and started to run. On my system, the bug noted on https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuDistUpgrade did not apply. The upgrader closed Adept as it should. However, the updater complained about a problem with one repository (something about an internal error decrompressing, I'm not sure if that's on my end or at the server-end. The package managers had been complaining about that repository for a few days though. I disabled the repository (which, btw, is not an unofficial one. It was one of the out-of-the-box src-depositories). And if you wonder...I use both Adept and Synaptic for a reason: Adept because it's the standard Kubunto package manager and sometimes feel to be a bit more stable, although that may be just imagination on my part. Synaptic because it's MUCH easier to use. I repeated the process and this time the upgrade started. Something needs to be done with the initial progress bars. They are very uninformative and I have no idea what the updater is doing at that point. Anyhow, the updater found 845 upgradable packages and some new ones (forgot to note down how many) plus 3 to be removed. Here it might be a good idea to add the option of seeing what packages will be removed. The others I could see. Altogether 928 files to download, approximated ETA 7 hours. Since it's such a lengthy process, wouldn't it be a good idea to show in the console window exactly what package it is working on at the moment instead of just that white background? Okay, maybe not terribly important. Once downloaded, the install process started. For the most part, it worked without a hitch. There were a few problems though.First, it warned me about my customised /etc/.bashrc and asked if I wanted to replace it. Which is good, but I wonder if it wouldn't be better if it made a backup of the old one and replace it, giving a note about it after rebooting into the new system - to make sure there is no need for someone to babysit the computer while the update is in progress. It did the same thing about a file in my ~/.kde/env directory, which is a bit odd. I haven't touched any file there manually, and if it's a file one of the settings programs altered it should either be left alone or updated for the new KDE-version if neeeded. I was also shown a window with a list of unsupported packages, and a claim that you would be able to chose whether to remove them or left intact at the cleanup-state. I newer saw that option. The final problem occured at the cleanup-phase. I got this error: E:Sub- process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), and the updater became unresponsive and the "report bug" window was dead. Finally I was given the option to terminate, if you can call it an option at this stage. I just had to terminate it and reboot manually. The update seems to have worked fine, except that a few things doesn't work as they used to. Nothing major so far, but the new version has only been running for about four hours. The first thing is that my external USB-hard drive isn't mounted by default. The kernel recognizes it fine, meaning that you see it in the list produced by cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It might be due to its filesystem - NTFS, but it worked under 6.10. Editing /etc/fstab by hand solved that problem. And it's only a temporary problem anyway...as soon as my new harddrive arrives the files will be moved onto a proper ext3-formatted-disk, and on a machine that is not considered my experiment machine :) Secondly, the defaults of which program to use for media-files changed from Amarok to Noatun for some reason (only tried with ogg and mp3 files). And thirdly, the end session dialog looks very odd. The KDE- dragon is gone, and instead I just get a white border around 5 rather large buttons. Those two are just cosmetic to be sure, but the first one might be more of a problem. Not for me, but maybe for others. Oh, and there's something weird in the "What kind of CD/DVD is this?" detection. A DVD-movie disk, when inserted in my DVD-burner, is often thought to be a CD-Audio disk. Sometimes it is recognized for what it is, but it is rather a hit-and-miss And even when it is recognized as a movie and mounted properly, I have had a window (just once so far) pop up asking what to do about the newly inserted audio-cd leaving me with two CD-icons on my desktop and one of those remained in place even after I had ejected the DVD in question. Btw, is it normal for 7.04 to not have a "Eject disk" if you right-click on one in KDE? So far, this recogniction problem has not occured when the disc was inserted in the DVD-ROM drive. All in all, an impressive upgrade procedure. -- SRU: updates necessary for Kubuntu Upgrade Tool in Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/84717 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
