[olug] Upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10?

[Jordan Fox]

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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