Upgrading to 11.04 - Desktop

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 30/04/2011 16:46, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> Well, I decided to upgrade a test machine to 11.04 to see what all the
> fuss was about with unity and fell at the first hurdle. Using Update
> Manager it produced a message stating "Could not download release
> notes". This is consistent across several machines, suggesting a faulty
> URL somewhere.
>
> A second attempt with do-release-upgrade produced "Checking for a new
> ubuntu release" and then nothing for more than the 15 minutes that my
> patience lasted.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts? (other than a fresh installation, please
> :-))
>
> Peter HB
>
Thanks to all who responded - now running 11.04 (in Classic mode). I 
tried unity, but was not impressed by the absence of a Menu Bar in 
several applications, including VirtualBox, Firefox, TBird, VLC and others.

In Firefox an image of the Menu Bar became visible when "Customise" was 
accessed, but that's all it was, an image with no functionality. It also 
disappeared again when the Customise dialogue was closed. It seems that 
the only way to check the version information is via Synaptic (or dpkg) 
and this is not as satisfactory as Help/About.

Oh, and while I'm on a rant, I wonder why Canonical feels it necessary 
to re-build LibreOffice with their own private bugs!! It wastes 20 
minutes with every new LibreOffice release, clearing out the Ubuntu 
version and re-installing the real thing.

Peter HB