Q: Any bad upgrade experiences?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/10/2007, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com> 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 :-)

I'm having a horror story with my new install (not upgrade). But it's
because of the damned ATI X1400 video card in this laptop. Compiz is
killing me. This is the last time that ATI/AMD get my money.

Dotan Cohen

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