[olug] Upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10?

[Obi-Wan]

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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