On 18 September 2010 16:40, Will Bickerstaff <will.bickerst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> All good questions and I think we should provide you a decent answer >> that is a foolproof as can be. >> >> Wiki? > Definitely a topic worth a wiki page. As you say Alan, these are all > good questions that don't have obvious answers to those that 'don't > get it', and none of them are uncommon. In fact they are all > reasonable questions that anyone about to undertake an upgrade > probably should be asking, and finding out what will happen before > starting. > > --
Well I have done two upgrades from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS. One was a straight upgrade through the update manager which worked flawlessly. The second was where the home directory was on a separate partition, and the system partition was not large enough to house the temporary file structure during upgrade, so I did a clean install of 10.04LTS over 8.04LTS which formatted the system partition and preserved the home directory which did leave a couple of problems. The first was the top right hand corner of the top panel was totally missing the network icon (although connectivity was working perfectly through ethernet cable, the gwibber icon was missing (maybe a good thing going by recent posts!) and there was no restart/shutdown icon. "Add to panel" sorted out that issue. The second problem was Firefox was reporting flash not installed, even though it was. This was a more taxing issue. After scratching my head a few times and trying a few things, I created a new account on the machine, and flash worked perfectly with that account. So I had to back up bookmarks, delete ~/.firefox, restore bookmarks, then all was well. A complaint was made shortly after that history and cookies had disappeared for good. I doubt if anything other than the default install and Gimp is on this machine, so someone doing a similar upgrade with a host of other applications, including some KDE apps like I have, may hit other additional problems upgrading by formatting. Having used Ubuntu since 6.06LTS and upgraded every six months through every distribution by the standard method, I don't think I have hit any issues to report. I think a wiki could be very useful, but there are bound to be different issues formatting upgrading between different versions. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
