Comments on: Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala from Ubuntu 9.04

By: M

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:13:01 +0000

I do not have working internet after the upgrade. I'm really pissed. And I have no idea what to do. It's *broken*.

By: James

James — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:36:52 +0000

Thanks Chimnoy for they guide. I’ve never done an update from the System > Administration > Update Manager level.
You live and learn almost every day.

By: Ace

Ace — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:07:37 +0000

Think something went haywire with my ISO download, looks like everything is there but it won’t install or play in the demo mode. Thought I would just go online and order a copy but since I have done that with a prior version they said they can’t send me one due do demand. I think this means alot of people are in the same boat. Guess I will have to try downloading the ISO again and hope for the best. Lesson to self NEVER jump on the first day bandwagon again!!!

By: ukcms

ukcms — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:02:09 +0000

i’ve got 9.04 installed via wubi on a vista laptop. upgrade took about 25mins. initial bootup was a little slow. sound issue fixed (now through speakers and not just headphone socket!).

maybe still ext3 (haven’t checked, but not bothered anyway)

happy.

so far…

By: linuxpal

linuxpal — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:50:06 +0000

Follow the instruction to upgrade and it stopped in the middle complaining swap space not found. Do not upgrade if you don’t have to!!!

By: Chinmoy

Chinmoy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:59:12 +0000

The upgrade has a known issue. I would recommend a fresh installation as it takes almost the same time downloading and installing.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:01:03 +0000

use a fresh install to get ext4 filesystem and encrypted home, everything works as it should, pity about the upgrade, took to long on upgrade, i found its quicker to d/l the full install version, and you have a disk to recover from too

excellent OS , everthing just works, big leap forward from 9.04 now on ASUS G1SN laptop with NVIDIA GPU, and Atom 330 both 64bit

BBC I player now works with adobe flash for 64 alpha

TBF it rocks, XP runs sweet in virtual box, and “crossover” for MS office works, will decide later whether to dump crossover and stay with virtualisation , no dual booting any more

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:27:20 +0000

Disaster! I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10. Now my computer boots to a blank screen. I had to go into grub and boot to an older kernel version 2.6.28-16-generic, instead of 2.6.31-14-generic, to get booted. Once booted I have no audio, and my system runs like molasses. Luckily, I still have Internet access so am able to get to Ubuntu forums, where I am searching for fixes to the various problems. About 6 hours of searching, so far, and nothing I have tried works. Beware!

By: doug

doug — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:58:11 +0000

Just started the upgrade last night, and finished it this morning, now, after booting, I get only graphic garbage on the screen, and an unusable system. I’ll be backing up the last few days worth of files that aren’t yet in my backup set, wiping the drive, and going back to what worked before I tried this upgrade. I’ve said a few unkind things about Ubuntu this morning, as it looks like I’m going to waste a day getting things back the way they were yesterday before this upgrade killed my OS

By: Chinmoy

Chinmoy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:30:21 +0000

There was probably a connection snap, and some files required for the upgrade went missing. Hope the download works.