I said I was looking forward to doing it
based on how well the new version worked on the laptop. I’m
pretty well done, and I’m not really looking backwards with
fondness, but upgrading is really a lot easier than it used to
be in the bad old days.
Doing the upgrade
To begin with, when I first tried it yesterday via the standard
network upgrade, it downloaded a
few packages and then hung. When I tried it again, it downloaded
a few more and hung.
This didn’t happen when I upgraded the laptop, but that’s
probably because I didn’t do that the day after the release was
official.
So I read the instructions, and found a way
to use a bittorrent to get the CD and upgrade from the CD
images. This was quite fast, and I had the upgrade completed in
only 3 or 4 hours. I didn’t have much time between then and when
my dinner guests arrived to check things out, but there wasn’t
anything obviously wrong.
Finding the problems
As I mentioned, I use the desktop for a lot more different
things than I do the laptop, so it’s only to be expected that
there will be more problems.
First, the good news — I can use the -# option to the lpr
command again. This is going to make Tuesdays, when I print new
music for the Cantabile
Band, much less irritating.
Now for the (relatively) bad news:
- The other problem that seemed to be fixed on the laptop was
that audacity didn’t make any sound when it played music. This
was still true on the desktop. So I deleted the
$HOME/.audacity-data directory, and now audacity plays. Maybe
that would have worked without the upgrade. - When I went to send mail, I got an error message about
gnutls-cli not being there. I checked and mail seemed to be
being sent anyway, but I posted a message to the gnus newsgroup,
and two people replied with the name of the package that now
includes gnutls-cli. So now I’m not getting the error message.
I didn’t get an answer to my question about what gnutls was
doing, and of course I should file a bug on gnus in ubuntu for
the upgrade not having happened correctly. - My key repeats have gotten a lot slower, so I’m going to
have to figure out how I set that and set it to a different
number. - When I post to a newsgroup, it now complains that my .sig is
too long, when it’s any longer than one line. I thought four
was a fairly standard limit; I’ve never heard of two being
considered asocial. I tried two different mail2news gateways
and they were both doing the same thing, so it may have to do
with the upgrade. I’ll try to find it; I know some of my quotes
are too long, but you should be able to say something.
On the possibly good news but not yet verified front — firefox
may be leaking less memory.
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