Ubuntu 6.10 Upgrade First Impressions

October 27th, 2006 · by Dean · 21 Comments

I took the plunge yesterday and upgraded my machine from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10. The upgrade instructions were very simple. I was extremely impressed with the upgrade. Absolutely no problems whatsoever.

When I first installed Ubuntu 6.06 a few months ago I had to apply a few tweaks. Mainly to get Ubuntu to recognize my Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451 CRT monitor correctly so I wasn’t stuck with a unusable 60Hz screen refresh rate, and also to get Ubuntu to recognize my Epson Perfection 1240U scanner.

Following the upgrade I was pleased to see both these devices functioning correctly. I know some people have had problems with wireless cards but overall I’m very happy with the upgrade.

Brief first impressions of Ubuntu 6.10….

Appearance of bootup screen nicer but it appears no faster than Ubuntu 6.06
Firefox 2 – nice to see this addition to the release
F-Spot Photo Manager. A bit like Google Picasa, although not as slick, it allows you to organize your photos and upload to services like Flickr
Tomboy note taking application – yet to play with this, looks promising
Applications I had installed on Ubuntu 6.06 like Kino video editor, Google Picasa, XSane image scanner, NVIDIA control panel still work

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21 responses so far ↓

1 dmatriz // Oct 27, 2006 at 6:48 pm

I will be pleased to update my blog in this regard
2 sockrebel // Oct 28, 2006 at 2:41 am

I’m about to upgrade. I hope that my process is as problem-free as yours. Wish me luck!
3 Dean // Oct 28, 2006 at 7:27 am

Good luck with the upgrade sockrebel.
4 sockrebel // Oct 29, 2006 at 6:32 pm

unfortunately, my upgrade didn’t go as smooth. problems with X
5 Dean // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:11 am

Sounds like I am one of the lucky few to have a successful upgrade.
6 Chris // Oct 30, 2006 at 7:20 pm

I just downloaded 6.06 for the first time, and my first foray into Linux… running it now from CD-boot mode…

Anyone have any time to work with me real quick on a couple questions? I want to understand the last stable release before I move on to the new one. lol.

can be reached at veritastic@gmail.com or AIM: Bordy240 if anyone has the time.. you all sound pretty knowledgable to me
7 Ubuntu 6.10 First Week Review « Technical Itch // Nov 2, 2006 at 8:10 pm

[...] I thought I’d give an update on how things are progressing since my upgrade from Ubuntu 6.06 to Ubuntu 6.10. Things are still working fine. Just one minor niggle so far. Ubuntu 6.10 no longer automatically detects my digital camera when I connect it to the USB port. I have to manually start the gThumb image viewer application before I can import pictures from my camera. Seems like I am not alone judging by the Ubuntu forums. [...]
8 anonymousFreeSoftwareUser // Nov 2, 2006 at 11:13 pm

“unfortunately, my upgrade didn’t go as smooth. problems with X”

For anybody having troubles with X, run:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

to re-run the debconf configuration of it’s package. It will make a bunch of questions, default to the current configuration.

(Debconf is a debian tool which many debian packages use, and so is available in debian and debian-based distros. Synaptic has a view for all the packages which have debconf questions. Usually you don’t see them when you install packages, especially in ubuntu where debconf is configured to show nly high priority questions. Of course, like allways , you can choose the amount of questions you want debconf to ask you when configuring a package by running:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf
).

You can also go right into x.org’s configuration, which resides at /etc/X11/xorg.conf
.
9 Dean // Nov 3, 2006 at 8:14 am

A lot of people have reported problems with X. Thanks for the information on how to fix it.
10 Chris // Nov 6, 2006 at 1:51 pm

Yeah seriously…
once I started understanding it all a little better (I definitely need a refresher on how to work from the command line… its been a long time since my DOS days, after all) I decided to go ahead and upgrade to Edgy.

Once I did though, I could no longer open firefox or flock for more than like 15 seconds. A problem with X, I learned.

So I will be trying that suggestion when I get home tonight lol.

Thanks!
11 Chris // Nov 7, 2006 at 3:59 am

Alright Gents, I tried the sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fix and it worked… for a couple minutes. I Was able to finally read my gmail within flock, but when I switched to my other account within gmail, flock closed again.

So I tried it in firefox, and I didn’t even get 30 seconds into firefox before it closed.

Any help?
12 Dean // Nov 7, 2006 at 8:14 am

You could try one of these links:
http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-edgy-upgrade-common-problems-with-solutions.html
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283364
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241254

Is Firefox and Flock just crashing when you visit gmail, or does it occur on other web sites too?
13 Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Clean Install Impressions « Technical Itch // Nov 10, 2006 at 9:05 am

[...] After my success upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 to Edgy 6.10 I decided to reformat my hard drive and try doing a clean install. The whole install process went very smoothly and was an improvement over the Ubuntu 6.06 install. [...]
14 Chris // Nov 10, 2006 at 1:52 pm

Update: It did happen to work that first time, I just didn’t know I had to restart GNOME. So I figured that part out, and now I
15 Technical Itch - » Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Clean Install Impressions // Nov 26, 2006 at 7:29 pm

[...] After my success upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 to Edgy 6.10 I decided to reformat my hard drive and try doing a clean install. The whole install process went very smoothly and was an improvement over the Ubuntu 6.06 install. [...]
16 Technical Itch - » Ubuntu 6.10 First Week Review // Nov 26, 2006 at 7:30 pm

[...] I thought I’d give an update on how things are progressing since my upgrade from Ubuntu 6.06 to Ubuntu 6.10. Things are still working fine. Just one minor niggle so far. Ubuntu 6.10 no longer automatically detects my digital camera when I connect it to the USB port. I have to manually start the gThumb image viewer application before I can import pictures from my camera. Seems like I am not alone judging by the Ubuntu forums. [...]
17 robertg // Nov 29, 2006 at 7:35 am

Everytime I go to do the upgrade to 6.10 in the command prompt it says it could not run the specified command. If anyone could let me know how to fix the problem I would much appreciate it.
18 Dean // Nov 29, 2006 at 8:23 am

What command(s) are you entering from the command line?
19 Technical Itch - » Edgy Woes During Monitor Upgrade // Dec 7, 2006 at 7:12 pm

[...] I’ve had some good things to report on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 recently. I’ve performed both an upgrade from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10 and a clean install of Ubuntu Edgy 6.10. Both have been success stories. I haven’t had anything bad to report about Edgy so far which I guess makes me in a minority judging by the forums I have read in various places. It seems like lots of people have run into problems of some sort or another. In fact their are whole pages dedicated to resolving issues with Ubuntu Edgy, one example being the Ubuntu Edgy Common Problems with Solutions page. [...]
20 Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 3 Released // Mar 24, 2007 at 1:47 pm

[...] soon after the release and will provide a full review of the release then. I had such success upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10, and also doing a clean install of Ubuntu 6.10, that I hope the same holds true for [...]
21 Ubuntu 7.04 Upgrade First Impressions // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:16 pm

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