Q: Any bad upgrade experiences?

[Paul Lemmons]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> I learn slowly, but I do sometimes learn.
>
> I tried both the last two Kubuntu upgrades (dapper -> edgy; edgy -> feisty)
> and both times I ended up having to do an install from scratch in order to
> recover from the mess that resulted. In both cases, I realised (too late)
> that there were a non-negligible number of people experiencing problems
> with both upgrades. (And, to be fair, eventually I think workarounds were
> posted, but much too late for them to be helpful to me.)
>
> So this time I'll ask here first: are there any horror stories I should
> know about before trying the upgrade path this time?
>
> No need to respond if everything went as it should; I assume that for the
> vast majority of people everything will have worked correctly.
>
> It will be marvellous if there are no further posts in this thread :-)
>   
Bad... no. It went extremely smoothly for me. I upgraded about two weeks 
ago to the last beta. The upgrade went flawlessly. Updates since then 
have also gone smoothly. I ran into a *very* minor glitch today that 
will not be an issue for you. I got the notice that a version upgrade 
was ready. I went to install it and because my machine was already up to 
date, except for the version id, the upgrade failed. I waited a bit and 
saw a time zone update. Tried it again and it worked like a charm. Seems 
that there needs to be at least one package to update for the upgrade to 
work.