upgrading to 22.04 kills firefox

[Bob]

can't seem to find a way around the snap part of the install.

Bob


On Wed, 19 Apr 2023, Bmarsh wrote:

> Since I've never used snaps and never needed to, I wonder what you're doing.   
> 
> I guess you're still using the live dvd or whatever...   
> 
>
>       From: Bob <accessys at smart.net>
>       Subject: Re: upgrading to 22.04 kills firefox
>       Date: 4/19/23 7:17 PM
>       To: bmarsh at bmarsh.com, Kubuntu user technical support
>       <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> 
> have 12tb and have a 4tb new partition for 22.04 so size is not the
> problem. the problem I am pretty sure is with Snapd.  carefully watching
> the install it hangs at "snapd auto restart...." and nothing happens for
> many minutes then it tells me to check the path and goes on with the
> install.  the 22.04 install seems to work fine Except for the fact that
> it cannot link to the internet.
>   I have been using one flavor or another of Linux since about Red Hat 3.1
> or so, switched to several others over the years when Red Hat went Fedora
> and finally landed on Kubuntu 16.04 so have been at this a while.  I
> switched to Linux at Y2K since what I was running would die then.
> 
> thanks
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023, Bmarsh wrote:
> 
> > It might help if you explained more about your environment.  Installing kubuntu
> can be
> > very easy using normal types of hardware and networking but you seem to be taking
> some
> > weird approaches.
> >
> > Not to rub salt, but today disc storage is cheap and should make things easy.  As
> an
> > example, I have a 1tb drive on my computer and when I go to a new install, 1) NEW
> > partitions for the new install, and leave the old system partitions untouched.  2)
> install
> > the new system and if all goes well, move to it.
> >
> > If something goes wrong, I can still boot the old system.  No live CDs, no special
> > procedures needed.  And the new install will ask my router (which is also a Linux
> box) for
> > a dhcp ip  address  and be connected during and after the install.   
> >
> > So what's your hardware and network connection look like?
> >
> >
> >    From: Bob <accessys at smart.net>
> >    Subject: Re: upgrading to 22.04 kills firefox
> >    Date: 4/19/23 11:33 AM
> >    To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >
> >
> > checked it out but it seems a little like I would need some hand holding
> > the first time I used it.
> >   I am getting to the point of frustration. 20.04 worded fine and in fact
> > am running the 20.04 live CD currently with no problems.
> >   so unless I findd the solution in a day or two I am going to just call
> > it a "fail" and revert to Kubuntu 20.04 and just use it for now until
> > maybe 24.04 comes out and hopefully works better.
> >
> > thanks for all the help
> > Bob
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Errol Sapir wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > What you can do to install easily from an iso file is prepare a disk on key
> > > (of 8 giga  at least) with a program called "Ventoy". On that prepared disk
> > > all you have to do is copy any iso file toy the disk on key, boot from the
> > > disk onn key and install the program directly from the iso files. One can
> > > even use a larger disk on key and copy many iso files to it and choose the
> > > program you want to install. Great program "Ventoy". I have a bootable hard
> > > drive with tens of iso programs on it.
> > >
> > > Errol
> > >
> > > On 17/04/2023 6:08, Bob wrote:
> > >>
> > >> good idea, getting late will give it a try tomorrow
> > >>
> > >> thanks
> > >> Bob
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 6:39 PM Bob <accessys at smart.net> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> the ISO has been downloaded but when I tried to burn a DVD it says the
> > >>>> 4.7gb DVD is too small even though the ISO says it is 4.7gb
> > >>>
> > >>> Perhaps you can try a net install CD. They are small, and fit on an old
> > >>> CD.
> > >>>
> > >>> The net install CD should be able to verify the networking stack comes
> > >>> up as expected.
> > >>>
> > >>> You don't have to install using the net install CD. Just test with it.
> > >>>
> > >>> https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
> > >>>
> > >>> Jeff
> > >>>
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