[olug] Upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10?

[Shannon]

I had a somewhat fresh install of 13.04 (kubuntu) and did the upgrade to
13.10. I have had some odd slow downs. system becoming unresponsive.

had to downgrade what kernel i was booting off of because of odd hardware
issues with wireless dropping. keyboard mouse becoming unresposive, so I am
now back at 3.8.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP

see how it goes


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com> wrote:

> upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10 the day after release, I received so many
> errors that the upgrader quit halfway through saying it encountered too
> many errors.  I figured the box was hosed, and was proved right when it
> failed to boot after that.  I was running a relatively stock Xubuntu 13.04
> and hadn't had many problems with dist-upgrading in the past.  I'd been
> dabbling off and on with Fedora since v17 and was planning on switching
> anyway... I haven't had any major problems since the switch except getting
> used to the yum commands over the apt commands ;)
>
> In your case, rather than upgrading from 12.10 -> 13.04 -> 13.10, I'd
> backup your data and do a fresh install.
>
> As a note, for reasons like this, I strongly recommend everyone has their
> /home directory on a separate partition (I actually had mine on a separate
> hdd).  With it on a separate partition (or hdd), you don't have to worry
> too much about loosing data if the OS craps out.
>
> Jordan
>
>
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> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've had zero issues going from 13.04 -> 13.10.  But as always mileage
> will
> > vary
> >
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> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That sucks.  I've generally had pretty good luck updating versions in
> > > place.  In fact, the only time since 5.04 that I've done a fresh
> install
> > > was when I jumped from 32-bit to 64-bit.  I think that may have been
> for
> > > 12.10, in fact.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 11/19/2013 11:32 AM, Sam Tetherow wrote:
> > >
> > >> Desktop is completely hosed, I have to start up metacity and
> gnome-panel
> > >> manually from the console. Suspend no longer works, sound is flakey in
> > some
> > >> apps.  I get quite a few gnome crash reports.  I haven't spent a lot
> of
> > >> time trying to resolve the issues.  It will be easier to do a fresh
> > install
> > >> and copy data back to the machine.  It has been a long time since I
> have
> > >> done the update manager to switch versions and now I remember why :)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 11/19/2013 11:18 AM, Obi-Wan wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> What sort of problems?
> > >>>
> > >>> On 11/19/2013 11:09 AM, Sam Tetherow wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Had horrible luck on my laptop going from 12.04 to 13.10 via update
> > >>>> manager.  Getting a full backup and plan on a wipe and reinstall
> this
> > >>>> weekend.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 11/19/2013 11:05 AM, Obi-Wan wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> My primary desktop box is currently running Ubuntu 12.10.  I missed
> > >>>>> the 13.04 update because I was too busy this summer to worry about
> > it.  Now
> > >>>>> that 13.10 has been out for a little while, I'm thinking it's
> > finally time
> > >>>>> to upgrade.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Are any of you running 13.10?  Are there any gotchas I should watch
> > >>>>> out for?  Any unusual problems with the upgrade process? Any major
> > apps you
> > >>>>> really wish you could downgrade because of what the 13.10 version
> > does to
> > >>>>> them?  Is there any reason I should upgrade only to 13.04 instead
> of
> > 13.10?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >
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