Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 Upgrade Woes

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Apps, Featured, Kubuntu on Apr 26th, 2009 | 0 comments

Introduction

If you are following me on Twitter then you already know.  My wife decide when the upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 when the pop-up showed up on her laptop to upgrade right away.  This was on Thursday the day that 9.04 was released.  This should not have been a problem.  However this blog post wouldn’t be here, if it would have worked.

What Went Wrong

I can only speculate, but I believe that the Canocial server were overloaded with everyone doing updates.  As a result of this, one of the update servers became unreachable.  Resulting in an incomplete upgrade.  The following error came up after the laptop restarted:

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Took The Plunge Jaunty Jackalope Kubuntu 9.04 On Laptop

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Featured, Kubuntu on Apr 6th, 2009 | 0 comments

Introduction

After a problem with the Kubuntu update to KDE 4.2, the laptop reinstalled the desktop all together, I’m now running the first Jaunty Jackalope Beta.  I like contributing back to the community, most of you already know this see my articles and previous work in here.  Installing a beta version and using it on a production box does take some guts.

How Did It Go?

If you have ever installed a beta product of anything then you know that instability is almost a given.  I started the installation of Jaunty on a clean HDD on Friday.  Then decided to do the rest of my configuration over this past weekend.  I take a little longer setting up my own boxes because I am precise about how stuff is installed.

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