Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade

[tbs-Gb/NUjX2UK8 at public.gmane.org (theBlueSage)]

I did the upgrade, and it was seamless, and I ran into no problems
during the process. By not doing a full fresh install you wont get some
of the things available, like the new grub2, but other than that I found
no issues. In fact, the upgrade solved a lot of problems that I was
having with Pulseaudio in 9.04 ...
You point out htat you can do the grub2 upgrade outside of the main
system upgrade, so you should have no problem with this release ...

Richard


On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 01:33 -0500, Tom Metro wrote:

> Anyone encounter any show stoppers in your upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10?
> 
> I always wait a few months before doing an Ubuntu version upgrade to let 
> the bugs shake out. Though Ubuntu doesn't do the greatest job of fixing 
> bugs within a release. Bug fixes tend to get pushed to the next release, 
> which unless they're security bugs, is probably by design, but can be 
> rather inconvenient at times.
> 
> 
> In preparation for the upgrade, I noticed a note:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades#Unable%20to%20Load%20Linux%20Drive
> 
> that the new release sometimes has problems booting from a root device 
> identified by UUID. They provided workarounds for both grub legacy and 
> grub2. The grub2 approach seemed cleaner, so I figured I'd start by 
> implementing that upgrade.
> 
> I read a few guides on this:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-grub-2-on-ubuntu-9.04
> http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/06/howto-upgrade-to-grub2-on-ubuntu-jaunty.html
> 
> which noted that the grub2 upgrade script has some bugs and doesn't 
> modify the legacy grub config file correctly when setting up grub2 to 
> chain load for initial testing. These guides were many months old, but 
> sure enough, the bug still exists in the 9.04 repositories:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/376879
> 
> They've fixed it in 9.10, but that doesn't help the people following the 
> upgrade notes that sort of encourage upgrading to grub2 first.
> 
> 
> The other thing I saw noted were a bunch problems with proprietary 
> nvidia drivers, which I happen to be using:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/464591
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+bug/438398
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+bug/474917
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+bug/456637
> 
>   -Tom
>