On 18 April 2012 17:21, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 18 April 2012 17:11, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 18 April 2012 16:51, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 18 April 2012 16:44, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > [snip] > >> > In a good 15 years of using Linux, I've never had an upgrade in place > >> > work > >> > properly. It would be far more reliable for an image install to offer > to > >> > back up your data, create a clean install and restore. > >> > >> I have never had one fail (not 15 years admittedly but a number of > >> upgrades). I always purge any PPAs I am using first. > >> > >> Also remember that if you install over an existing one but tell it not > >> to format the partition then it will leave the home directory in place > >> so effectively doing what you are asking. > >> > >> Of course with a Beta version (which is the case for the OP) then > >> nothing is guaranteed. > >> > > > > Except it doesn't > > What, you mean an install in place without formatting /home corrupts > /home? I hope you have put a bug report in for that as it is > extremely serious. > > No, it doesn't corrupt your home directory in any way, and it's not even limited to any *buntu. It's possibly a low level Gnome or even GNU/Linux issue that I have also observed in variants of RedHat including Mandrake back when it was the Linux desktop that (mostly) worked, as well as Ubuntu since 5.10. If I had the time and the inclination to track down what it was then I would, and it is probably application related but it's usually quicker to reinstall. It does vary - in fact I think I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 on my old laptop without a problem, but had a lot of trouble going from 11.04 to 11.10 on my desktop so in the end I stick with clean reinstalls.
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