Your Ubuntu 11.10 Upgrade: How Well Did It Go?

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  • Lynn - 10 years ago

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  • Didn't like it - 12 years ago

    After the upgrade from 11.04 my wifi didn't work. Seems to be a pretty common problem for my wireless card with 11.10. It was such a pain I re-installed 11.04.

  • Andy Duffell - 12 years ago

    The only thing that didn't work was the Jupiter applet not whitelisting itself on the new system, but I voted as "perfect" as Jupiter is a third-party app.

    TBH, I'm surprised to see the "perfect" score as low as it is. I've done many upgrades over several versions of Ubuntu. Upgrading used to be pretty flaky,but I've not had any trouble at all for years now. An upgrade is now my first preference, it's far less hassle than a reinstall.

  • François GAUMER - 12 years ago

    Since I was still using old gnome desktop, it broke everything. My mistake I should say, but still, I really don't like either Gnome shell or worse, this unity thing...

  • mrG - 12 years ago

    nvidia and radeon setups were broken, had to reinstall flash but then it was fine, google chrome is HIGHLY unstable, often spirals into tab-death, and beyond all that, well, frankly, I don't really see any real tangible difference other than some graphics changes, but maybe that's good news as the interface SHOULD be largely invisible, right?

  • Wayne Deitrick - 12 years ago

    It seemed to slow down everything on my machine. Where I noticed it most was launching programs. If I ran anything from the launcher I'd see no indication of my action for a good 20-30 seconds.

    I decided to reinstall 11.04 and that's actually where the worst offense came. I had two hard drives, I'll call them OS and Data. OS had 11.10 and Data had all my personal files. The installer asked where to install and I selected OS. It said (paraphrasing) "Are you sure you want to install here? All of your files will be overwritten." This being what I wanted I clicked to the affirmative. It went ahead and installed on Data instead wiping out all my personal data on there, some of which had not been backed up yet. I was FURIOUS. The installer had done something similar to me once before and needs some serious investigation into the logic for which partition installations goes on.

  • panurg - 12 years ago

    SMplayer is broken. Maybe some other applications which use Qt are also broken.

  • Fousage - 12 years ago

    Slicker interface and a few glitches gone, but the price to pay is high : no more three-fingered middle click on the trackpad (really inconvenient), quite slower to boot, less battery-life, and no more fine performance/power consumption management. I am quite tempted to go back to 11.04 if the three-fingered middleclick does not get solved quickly.

  • Victor Passapera - 12 years ago

    Custom built computer with lots of customizations done to it. (Installed custom NVIDIA Drivers, compiz fusion, lots of modifications to apache conf and php ini...etc) Upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10, then when 11.04 came out, same thing, now upgraded to 11.10 and all the times it went without a hitch.

    Running gnome-shell now and everything is working great. (maybe im one of the lucky few).

    On my work computer (a standard/Out of the box desktop interestingly enough) when i tried to upgrade 10.04 to 10.10 it didnt go well at all. But on my custom machine everything worked....go figure lol.

  • Dahu - 12 years ago

    I was lucky the upgrade worked. Because when I tried the livecd it didn't work at all ...

  • Graham Macleod - 12 years ago

    I have a serious aversion to upgrading due to me always having had problems. I usually just back up and then re-install with the updated distro.

  • Ethan - 12 years ago

    Had been using Ubuntu Classic in 11.04, upgraded to 11.10. Computer is much slower now, brightness settings don't work anymore, still missing temperature monitors in the panel.

  • io - 12 years ago

    Ati Radeon 3200 drivers didnt work ;(

  • Glen - 12 years ago

    Froze on reboot after upgrade, but I was able to start X from a terminal session, install the missing nVidia driver. After that, all seems to be fine.

  • Jupiter - 12 years ago

    Everything seemed to go well. When I restarted the computer after the upgrade finished I went into the LightDM login screen. When I entered my username and password, everything went black and then I was back at the login screen. I was able to login as a guest but not as my previous user in 11.04. I think that might be due to the fact that when I installed 11.04 I checked the encrypt home folder, but I don't remember doing that, and when dual-booting Windows 7 I was able to access my Ubuntu partition so, I don't think it was that. I had to reinstall (clean install) after attempting to recover my account following some tutorials with no luck

  • Lawry - 12 years ago

    Hared unity so went straight to gnome shell, then hit Ati driver problems. Couldn't upgrade even when new driver was released so.....Hello Lubuntu!

  • Anon - 12 years ago

    The move of /var/run to /run failed on two out of three system upgrades (so far), and left the systems in an unusable state. It was a prette simple fix once found out though.

  • Keeper - 12 years ago

    When I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10, I lost the usability of almost every program that I used regularly, which was mostly Empathy, Banshee, and Firefox. Banshee disappeared completely on me after the upgrade, Empathy lost AIM and MSN support (which is the exact accounts that I need), and Firefox kept crashing every time I clicked on a link. So, since I had all my files backed up already and had the 11.10 already on disc for a fresh install if needed, I just wiped everything and started over. No problems after that, beyond the complaining of having to reinstall programs and the long wait to copy files from my external hard drive and the cloud back onto the computer.

  • kzee - 12 years ago

    - graphics was totally broken.
    - internet was damn slow.

    that's enough to downgrade. =|

  • Mark - 12 years ago

    NVidia driver didn't work. The boot just seemed to freeze, but I could open a terminal session (Ctrl-Alt-F2). Luckily I have a netbook with which I found a solution on the internet.

  • eduardo - 12 years ago

    I had to go back to 11.04. I use my desktop with two video outputs, my tv for watching hd videos and my monitor. Videos got so slow... like frame by frame.. didn't matter if they where sd or hd, AVI, or MKV... I tried uninstalling the proprietary ATI videocard driver, installing again, downloaded the amd website version.... Nothing solved the problem. So I downgraded. It's a shame... other than this annoying problem everything did look very neat!

  • Jon Taylor - 12 years ago

    My 64 year old mother upgraded her own Ubuntu pc. She didn't know how to reinstall the graphics card drivers and 2 Evolution packages were broken, so I had to go and repair them.
    That said, once I'd sorted it Evolution and the graphics worked fine.
    Ubuntu on her pc is upgraded all the way from 9.04, so it's probably time for a back up and fresh install.
    All 5 of my Ubuntu pc's work fine after the upgrade to 11.10 with no problems at all.

  • Markus Wolff - 12 years ago

    The upgrade actually fixed several things that were not working before, such as hibernate/resume (but not suspend on my machine, but on my wife's notebook it fixed that, too) and not being able to drag windows onto another screen in a multi-monitor setup.

  • peter svensson - 12 years ago

    Flash was not working after I did the upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04 to Ubuntu 11.10.

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