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| Upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" |
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| Written by Kelly Rush | |
| Saturday, 20 October 2007 | |
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Like many, many other people (judging from the slow download speeds), I upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 "Gutsy" yesterday. The process kept getting stopped by confirmation windows (which I wasn't always there to acknowledge), but all-in-all, I would say that the process probably took around three hours. I figured I would take a post to review the process, while it was still fresh in my head. First, I had a lot of problems getting the installation going. It kept getting hung up on one of the initial steps. I did some research, and the best I can tell it sounds like a bug in the upgrade process. A few people had some luck by killing processes, so I tried that. After killing probably 15 non-essential processes, it still didn't get through. I basically just kept trying over and over, getting a little further each time. After probably seven or eight retries, it finally got over whatever it was getting caught up on, and started the upgrade process. It went pretty smoothly from there. Lots of acknowledge confirmations, as I mentioned. It must have been at least ten times the process was interrupted by a window waiting for me to do something. Because of this, instead of a few hours to upgrade, I had to continue it overnight. That was sort of annoying, and it was mostly silly things (like MythTV wondering if something could be updated, etc). Other than that, the process went smooth. The computer restarted, and after it came back up, I was presented with my custom login screen, which is good, because that means the settings hadn't been overwritten. Things I noticed right away that were issues: - my window themes (controlled by "Emerald" were gone) - graphic effects from Compiz-Fusion were gone - Avant Window Navigator (AWN) was not loading I tried to tackle AWN first because I figured it would be easiest to solve. Basically, I used Synaptic Package Manager to remove AWN from the system. I then downloaded the AWN source from the software's website, and re-installed from that, which fixed it. All of my settings were still there, which was good, but also means that they were not removed, which seems wrong. Whatever. Next came Compiz-Fusion. I went to the new display configuration application. I had the new settings, with low/medium/high graphics effects, as well as the "custom" option, which I came to find out is only visible when you have the CompizConfig Settings Manager installed. Unfortunately, the configuration button did not function, meaning I could not enable things like the desktop cube, wobbly windows, etc. Additionally, even though the option was available in the GNOME Panel Menu, it would not load. Long story short, I eventually un-installed the CompizConfig Settings Manager application in Synaptic, and then re-installed it. That made it work again, and I was able to re-enable all of the Compiz-Fusion effects. Finally, the window themes. Emerald was un-installed for some reason during the upgrade. I have no idea why. I just re-installed it again from Synaptic, and my last theme was there. For some reason, all of the other themes no longer work, and I can't load the official and un-official themes either. That is a problem that needs to be fixed by the Emerald team (or someone?!) but it works for me for now, because that is the theme I want. Overall, I think this is a solid release. The way the effects work is going to be pretty nice for most people that don't need all the fancy stuff, but it would be nice to have a way for people to enable the other effects without having to go in and manually install the Settings Manager. I haven't had a chance to play with the new additions (such as the display manager), but I'm going to install 7.10 over Xubuntu 7.04 on my old laptop tonight, so I will possibly give an update there. Ubuntu is definitely making a lot of progress, and even though it gets tossed around a lot, I could see most people being able to use it for most desktop tasks with this release, or possibly 8.04 or 8.10, depending on what happens. Good job Ubuntu development team!        |
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