Dec 062008
I upgraded from 8.04LTS to 8.10 yesterday, and it has been nothing but trouble ever since. I had to manually get X working (since there are some problems with the ATI driver obviously), f-spot stopped working (some strange X-windows error), CIFS mounts now complain about being unable to load NLS codepage cp437 (and therefore filling up the syslog with several entries every second), and I will probably find more when I progress on using the system.
This SUCKS big time. I know 8.10 is not an LTS version, but it should be a stable version. I beg to differ.
Update: Azureus (now Vuze) has an auto-update bug (downloads 4.0.0.4, installs and restarts, but remains 3.1.1.0, so wants to update again)
I just updated to 8.10 today and though the Restricted Drivers manager didn’t download and install the latest ATI driver automatically like it said it was going to, after downloading and running the ATI driver installer manually everything worked fantastic. I have yet to have any issues. In fact, my Sager laptop has been running better than ever all day. I still have the Vuze update issue, but I’m pretty certain I’ll have that fixed by the end of the night. Take a look here: http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Failed_Update
Remove the previous version of Vuze or Azureus.
Run the installation package here: http://www.getdeb.net/download/3308/0
Run the command `sudo chmod 777 /usr/share/vuze` in a terminal
Enjoy.
Thanks SubOne. I’ll try next year. Oops…..that’s only a day away… 😉