Glitches on upgrade to 12.10

[Gabor Toth]

Hi Charlie,

Yea, I know and I can indeed burn them onto a DVD and/or put on USB. 
Looking again the Ubuntu main website it actually do say that you need
USB or DVD.  I was just not aware of that change - until now it was CD. 
Anyhow, fair enough, I need to get some DVDs then.

Best,

Gabor Toth

E-mail: gabor.me at gmail.com   Phone: +45-2163-4983

On 10/29/2012 02:03 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:05:24 +0100
> Gabor Toth <gabor.me at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have upgraded to 12.10 yesterday evening and it went very smooth
>> indeed.  There is one comment I would make on the upgrade process that I
>> feel should be changed in future releases:
>> During the process in a number of times (around 15-20 in my case) a
>> message came up saying that I have modified some configuration files and
>> offering me the options to keep mine or change it to the new one.  I can
>> look what the difference is.  Now, while it seems fine, I actually did
>> not know many of the files where do they belong to or what do they do
>> and did not know what is the consequence if I keep mine versus using the
>> upgrade version.  What do I loose by not keeping?  If I keep do I miss
>> out some features? The process does not give data on it and for people
>> who are even less knowledgeable it would say nothing so they would
>> choose blindly one or the other option - almost pointless to even ask. 
>> Why don't we just keep the modified files?
>> Just a point to make.
>>
>> Now, I do have some issues since upgrade though:
>> 1. Not directly related to upgrade but thought to put it here: I have
>> also downloaded the ISO images of both x64 and i386.  I like to have
>> them burned on CD in case I need them and sometimes I install for
>> someone else.  When I tried to burn them on CD, Brasero in both cases
>> said that they are two big for burning on a blank CD?!  Is that so?  Are
>> the images too big for CD?
> When I browse http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ , which is
> the Ubuntu 12.10 images, I see file sizes of 763MB for the 64-bit
> Desktop cd and 753MB for the i386 Desktop cd. That, indeed, is too big
> for a CD. It can be burned to either a USB drive or DVD, though.
>
>> 2. Since upgrade Pidgin does not appear in the menu on the notification
>> area under the "envelop".  Actually after the reboot, that completed the
>> upgrade, the "envelop" and its menu was missing too entirely.  Then when
>> I started Thunderbird and Gwibber the "envelop" came and it is there
>> since but the only thing that is in the menu is Thinderbird and
>> Gwibber.  I do not have Pidgin even when it is running - it runs fine
>> though, but does not appear there.  BTW I also have Emphaty installed on
>> the system and while I do not use it, before upgrade it did appear in
>> that menu and now it is not there.  I have filed this as a bug against
>> the Pidgin package, not sure if that is the right place though.
>>
>> 3. After upgrade I tried Libreoffice today the first time.  When I
>> opened a Calc (table) file it opened fine, however the top menu (Files,
>> Edit, etc.) did not show up integrated into the top bar or in any way. 
>> The menu was missing!  It was not there in the full windowed mode or the
>> smaller one either.  Then I closed it and when started next time it just
>> worked fine and does so since.  Did not file a bug as I can not
>> reproduce, but right after upgrade it was there.  Kind of strange. 
>> Wanted to report it here.
>>
>> Other than the above issues everything seems to be running just fine and
>> the system is smooth as butter.  I love the new background images,
>> congrats for whoever choose them.
>>
>> I would be glad to assist to fix any of the above ones if I can do
>> something.  Testing, additional data, anything.  Let me know.
>>
>> Have a nice day.
>>
>> Gabor,
>>
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