After hearing wonderful things about Ubuntu's latest release, I decided to upgrade last night. Yeah, three hours just to download the updates. Ridiculous! It didn't even take me that long to install Ubuntu the first time around! So after downloading and installing I start the old computer up this morning. And Ubuntu didn't run. I had to boot into windows, make sure my computer was still working and then restart and try to get into Ubuntu again. Phew. Ok got in. Oh wait. Wifi doesn't work. Check password, check settings, oh great where'd my network monitor icon go? Oh it's gone? But it's installed. Hmmm. Yeah after some googling I found no one with my same issue. I hopped on my wired connection and tried to ask for help in #ubuntu on IRC. No help whatsoever. Very disapointing. Pop into #plone and whine...three people immediately step up to help me and within 15 minutes my problem is solved. Genius.
So for those of you upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10, type this into your terminal before you go on a wild chase, then reboot:sudo sed -i -e "s/# deb/deb/g" /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Solved my issues no problem. Many thanks to my #plone friends who helped me troubleshoot even though it was off topic for the channel and they didn't benefit one bit from helping me. You guys are great!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10
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I had the same issue with wifi. Spent half an hour figuring out whats wrong with NetwokManager, and eventualy nothing wrong was with it. Logging out and logging in again solved the problem :)
It'd be interesting to know what went wrong here, and what the fix does.
And, are you sure you're not missing an apt-get upgrade after that?
Yes Daniel, you're right. forgot about that :)
Still not sure what went wrong but haven't had any issues since.
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