upgrading to 22.04 kills firefox

Thu Apr 20 01:45:18 UTC 2023

I have never come across a that.  Are you able to boot a USB yet?  Still honk you’re not starting the install right.   What are you booting and what’s the first thing that comes up?

 From: Bob < accessys at smart.net > Subject: Re: upgrading to 22.04 kills firefox Date: 4/19/23 8:43 PM To: bmarsh at bmarsh.com ,        Kubuntu user technical support < kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com >
 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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