{"id":1018,"date":"2008-10-31T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2008-10-31T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T19:31:16","slug":"a-painful-upgrade-to-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1018-a-painful-upgrade-to-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex.html","title":{"rendered":"A painful upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m writing a piece on Ubuntu – makes a change from all that Windows at Microsoft’s PDC. I wanted to be up-to-date, so I upgraded my laptop from Hardy Heron (8.4)\u00a0to Intrepid Ibex<\/a>\u00a0(8.10), released just yesterday. I followed the officially recommended procedure<\/a>.\u00a0Currently I only have\u00a0a wi-fi connection, which is not ideal, but I reckoned it might work. Before upgrading, I applied all available updates to the existing 8.04 installation.<\/p>\n

The update manager started off confidently enough, though it sat for a long time on\u00a0ldconfig deferred processing<\/strong>.\u00a0Then it asked for a restart, and things started going wrong. Ubuntu could only boot to a terminal prompt, since it was missing packages needed for X, the graphical server, to start. I tried to fix this with apt-get; but I had another problem: the wifi connection was down. I managed to get this working with ifconfig<\/strong> and iwconfig<\/strong>, and repaired my system with apt-get update<\/strong> and apt-get dist-upgrade<\/strong>. This downloaded and installed some 340MB of packages, after which I could boot to the desktop.<\/p>\n

I was not done yet. On startup, Ubuntu was pausing when configuring the network. When the desktop appeared, I had\u00a0the problem usually expressed as nm-applet not appearing in the panel. This actually meant that the network manager had crashed. If I tried\u00a0to restart it, it said\u00a0“no connections defined”\u00a0and hung with some other errors.\u00a0Once again, I could only restore wifi by fidding with\u00a0console\u00a0commands. I discovered I was not alone<\/a>\u00a0with the nm-applet problem. The fix that worked for me was to remove all references to network devices other than loopback in \/etc\/network\/interfaces, as described here<\/a>. Restarted, the network applet returned, and I could finally connect conveniently.<\/p>\n

I got a surprise when I tried to browse the web. The upgrade had removed most of my applications, including FireFox and OpenOffice. I had to reinstall these using\u00a0Add\/Remove applications<\/strong>. I did find that FireFox had remembered my settings, once reinstalled, for which I was grateful.<\/p>\n

Now that Intrepid Ibex is up and running, it will probably be as stable, fast and capable\u00a0as Hardy Heron before it – really, it was. Linux is great, honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m writing a piece on Ubuntu – makes a change from all that Windows at Microsoft’s PDC. I wanted to be up-to-date, so I upgraded my laptop from Hardy Heron (8.4)\u00a0to Intrepid Ibex\u00a0(8.10), released just yesterday. I followed the officially recommended procedure.\u00a0Currently I only have\u00a0a wi-fi connection, which is not ideal, but I reckoned it … Continue reading A painful upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,91],"tags":[497,545,924],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-intrepid-ibex","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}