Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade

[david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org (David Kramer)]

On Mon, February 1, 2010 1:33 am, Tom Metro wrote:
> Anyone encounter any show stoppers in your upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to
> 9.10?
>
> I always wait a few months before doing an Ubuntu version upgrade to let
> the bugs shake out. Though Ubuntu doesn't do the greatest job of fixing
> bugs within a release. Bug fixes tend to get pushed to the next release,
> which unless they're security bugs, is probably by design, but can be
> rather inconvenient at times.

As I've said in the past, I almost never upgrade to a newer version of an
OS; I back up and install fresh after reformatting the hard drive.  I
couldn't do that this time, because I had to do all three machines due to
the MythTV update, and it would have taken too long.

I did run into some problems, but I wouldn't call them showstoppers.

- The biggest one, probably due to MythTV, is that my server ended up with
an incompatible mix of mysql 5.0 and 5.1 packages.  Because of that, the
/etc/init.d/mysql file got deleted and the replacement package never got
installed.  It took me quite a while to figure out what was happening.

- Also related to MythTV was that it wrote its own default apache vhost,
so mythweb came up when I went to http://www.thekramers.net

- I had Grub set up to verbose, and it overwrote it to not only not tell
me what's happening during boot, but this intensely ugly MythBuntu screen
stays up during the boot process,  and I didn't even install MythBuntu!  I
really need to track this one down.

- As usual, sound was misconfigured and I had to take off mute and find
the mixer.  Speaking of which, the panel applet to adjust the volume and
bring up the mixer won't run on one of my systems.

- It overwrote my bashrc.local.  The whole point of bashrc.local is you
put your stuff in it and it doesn't get trashed by OS upgrades.

Other than that, I was a little disappointed in the incosistency of the UI
during upgrading.  Whenever it needed to overwrite a config file, there
were two or three different styles of dialog boxes that would come up,
with different options, some of which did not include showing a diff.

I do use nVidia proprietary driver on all three machines, and all three
worked fine.