Comments on: Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix)

By: Negrou

Negrou — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:11:51 +0000

SnT:
I had the same problem recently with arch linux. If I connect my ethernet via dhcp with my router encore Urban Terror or other games like Enemy Territory don’t work. But if I connect my wireless all games work perfectly. Then I changed my ethernet configuration setting manualy the ip and dns. (look the /etc/rc.conf Put in there OpenDNS or the DNS of your ISP.)
I don’t know why, but now all the games works fine with this stupid change. Sorry about my terrorific english.

By: edson

edson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:53:29 +0000

hi, i wonder if help me, to upgrade to ubuntu 8.10 from 8.04 using terminal console

By: Scooter

Scooter — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:52:15 +0000

My upgrade has caused many problems. I have a live cd. How do I re-install 8.10 using this CD?

By: kazuya

kazuya — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:20:16 +0000

This instruction worked flawlessly. Awesome guide.

By: yuval

yuval — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:02:41 +0000

You must ebable Release Upgrade like in the second image in that tutorial to update new ubuntu version

By: krishna shambhu

krishna shambhu — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:43:51 +0000

thanku for help it is very helpful command

thanku boos

By: yosoyelkoch

yosoyelkoch — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:35:59 +0000

Hello, I have a problem. My system has always updated automatically. I currently have Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 in Spanish, and I was waiting to the next release. Today, being Feburary the first, 2009, my system is “Up to date”, according to Synaptic and Upgrade manager. Should I perform a manual update? Why I didn’t receive the upgrade notification this time?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

By: Chaanakya

Chaanakya — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:19:48 +0000

For those having problems with upgrading, I recommend doing a clean install. I also recommend putting /home on a different partition, as it will set you up nicely for future upgrades/reinstalls. Also, all-in-all, Intrepid was worse than Hardy, and I would not recommend upgrading at all.

By: Al

Al — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:33:41 +0000

WARNING! X forwarding might not work

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:13:55 +0000

>>Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix)
>>Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix)
>>(Intrepid Ibix)
>>Ibix

It’s Ibex, btw. ^_^

By: SnT

SnT — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:13:37 +0000

I just upgraded from 8.04lts to 8.10 and everything looks good but now my online games wont play like urban terror, it gets to awaiting gamestate screen and just sits there, and my XQF game browser now cant get info on servers, im using comcast cable ethernet.

By: gary

gary — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:02:01 +0000

I have upgraded via the upgrade manager all the way back to 5.10, but no upgrade has been as buggy as this one. Webcam does not work (complicated workaround was found). Crashes NVidia drivers leaving the system unusable. All in all, I went back to 8.04 & I will stay there, thank you.

By: stat

stat — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:24:01 +0000

Just did this following the tutorial (thanks for that) and only two small issues. I had to install Awn and for some crazy reason the mount points on two disks got reversed. Both were easily fixed and I was rocking within the hour. Usually I do a clean install but this was a great time saver.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:56:28 +0000

Hi all,

I did the above upgrade over the weekend and the main problem was the MYSQL database upgrades which were required.
This caused issues with roundcube (database could not be upgraded), WordPress database could not be upgraded (still works but needs DB upgrade)and Gallery2 has broken with a similar DB issue.

I am a little worried that the DB issue may cause corruption of some of the Gallery or WordPress DB’s.

The other problem I have seen is sound.
Previously I ran 2 sound cards (one on board and a Sound Blaster)in my AMD x64 server, now the systems says it cannot find a device. I’m assuming this is a driver thing, but this was a little disappointing as I use the server for some Ham Radio VoIP technologies and the sound cards are required for this to work.

Anyway, other than that it looks good adding some new features.

Derek

By: Jonathan Pienaar

Jonathan Pienaar — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:06:00 +0000

To update from Alternate CD: (or rescue your system when things go wrong)

Open terminal, or better: close XWindows and work at the terminal.
$ sudo apt-cdrom add
$
$ sudo -p cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup
$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
(This opens your sources list in vi. Place a # at the beginning of every
line except the one describing your new CD, which should be top of the list.)
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
(You may have to repeat the process a couple of times, if things go wrong - i.e. if you get an error message and an unexpected quit.)
The upgrade process should upgrade your sources.list to include the main repositories, with the “extra” ones commented out.
You will probably have to reinstall your restricted drivers.

That’s about it - feel free to comment if I have left anything out.

By: medo

medo — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:33:36 +0000

there was an error in upgrading update manager so the app didn’t continue
i don’t know what to do i just aborted and gone

By: tjenarvi

tjenarvi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:40:05 +0000

Hi there,

I would like to know more how to upgrade Ubuntu 8.04.1 to 8.10 from Alternate CD.

Thanks in advance

By: Linux Mann

Linux Mann — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:36:29 +0000

Apart from Debian, nearly all Linux distros are better off with a clean install in my experience; hopefully they’ll get better with time.

If upgrading a laptop, I’d use the wired Ethernet connction (not wireless) and have mains plugged in too.

Upgrading from CD repositories requires the alternative-cd AFAIK.

Have fun!

By: Jonathan H Pienaar

Jonathan H Pienaar — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:28:18 +0000

Alternate upgrade method?

In the past I have downloaded and burned the CD, then added it to my repo list (apt-cdrom), then done the upgrade. Advantages: you now have a CD for installation on other machines; if things go wrong, you can do a clean install (providing you backed up your home or kept in on a different partition), and you save on bandwidth for future installs by downloading only once.

Any idea if this will still work?

By: Jonathan H Pienaar

Jonathan H Pienaar — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:24:41 +0000

My 2c

I have used update with varying levels of success in the past, including having to resort to apt-get dist-upgrade.

I strongly recommend that, if you are wanting to live on the bleeding edge, put your /home directory in its own partition. Then, if/when things go pear-shaped and you have to reinstall, you don’t format that partition. Create yourself as user exactly the same as you had it before, and you _should_ have access to your home as before. You may have to edit /etc/fstab to agree with this configuration.