[Rustington] UBUNTU 12.04 LTS RELEASE

[JACK COGMAN]

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 From: JACK COGMAN <jack.cogman at btinternet.com>
To: Paul Willis <phwillis at gmail.com> 
Cc: Rustington LUG <rustington at mailman.lug.org.uk>; JohnCogman <jwcogman at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2012, 11:33
Subject: Re: [Rustington] UBUNTU 12.04 LTS RELEASE
 

You are not alone, Paul. Yesterday we attempted to upgrade our 11.10 to 12.04 - that is, my son attempted the upgrade, as he happened to be staying with us for a short while. It didn't help that we were intially running on the battery, as it ran out of power and the upgrade aborted. However, with assistance from other users via google searches, he succeeded in completing the upgrade. When he attempted to run Ubuntu, however, it came up with a System V error. After a long process involving changing video drivers (something which I would be completely out of my depth attempting) he has managed to arrive at a semi-working 12.04. The basic functions work OK, such as running a browser, but it error messages appear saying that it is missing some files.

- Further work still to be done

Jack


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 From: Paul Willis <phwillis at gmail.com>
To: Stuart McFadyen <stuart.624mcfadyen at btinternet.com> 
Cc: Rustington LUG <rustington at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2012, 2:01
Subject: Re: [Rustington] UBUNTU 12.04 LTS RELEASE
 
I got the x64 desktop on thurs and quickly put it on a bootable stick
which I ran live on a u3a laptop at the sussex lug. All well. When I
got home I
 started to upgrade this machine which had been happy on
11.10, and went to bed.... In the morning the machine was off so I
restarted it and as if from sleep it put me straight back to the
middle of the upgrade but with some problem that I cleared and it
continued. I went out for a few hours and returned to find it stuck
again waiting to tell me something needed replacing so I OKed and off
it went again. This repeated several times over the following hours
until it finally seemed happy and I let it reboot. On logging in I had
a blank screen - no menu, no launcher and no keyboard shortcuts I
could think of. A right click to change desktop background let me into
settings where eventually I set the usual control-alt-t to open the
gnome terminal. (cont-alt F1 etc had worked for the tty terms and I
had killed my way out of some sessions). I was able to run a 2D login
OK with the usual unity stuff and I have changed my
 nvidia driver
twice to try and get 3D working without success so far. I can at least
raise a terminal and run firefox, but I have to say as an upgrade this
has been a total pain. I think I'm going to try a fresh install if I
cant frighten this system into behaving soon! As I said the live cd
version was fine on a laptop which I'll try upgrading later...


On 26 April 2012 17:50, Stuart McFadyen
<stuart.624mcfadyen at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just loaded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release and all seem to be fine, apart
> from the fact that my ageing PC ( I am not into games ! ), does not have
> graphics support for the HUD (head Up Display) function.
>
> Maybe my "live" 12.04 DVD could be loaded onto a modern laptop next week ?
> (Please Derek
 !)
>
> I will bring a .ISO memorystick copy of 12.04 to the meeting, if anyone
> would like to copy the file for burning.
>
> It must be burnt to a DVD due to the file size.
>
> Stuart.
>
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