[Cialug] Ubuntu 12.04

[Matt Stanton]

I have had similar issues.  Something about the update manager upgrade caused the unity bar to be disabled, so all I had on my screen was my icons.  Right-clicking gave me the context menu that was completely useless, except that it allowed me to create a new empty file.  I created a new file, wrote a quick bash script that basically did nothing but open gnome-terminal for me (because I don't know any of the keyboard shortcuts, many of which were probably disabled, anyway).  I opened a terminal window, and ran ccsm (compiz config settings manager, I think?), and found that almost every module was disabled.  I had to set unity back up from scratch (then I found the option to enable all standard settings, but I'm not sure if it would have worked).

I did have to set the sidebar so that it is always visible, because it would not open when I put the mouse on the left side of the screen.  There is an option to force the bar to show itself when you hold down the "windows key" (meta key?), but it acts funny and I can't handle its unpredictable nature.

Everything seems to be working correctly at this point, but it was a night worth of annoyance that you may not want to go through.  My suggestion, if you are planning to upgrade, would be to use apt-get from the command-line rather than the upgrade manager.  If anyone runs the upgrade from command-line, would you let us know how things turn out?

-- Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Sat, 12 May 2012 11:01 AM
Subject: [Cialug] Ubuntu 12.04

I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04 yesterday and ran into some problems.

I used the graphical update manager thing.  It stopped at about .02% in to
the "installing" phase, at "configuring libc-bin".  I left for work, came
back, it was still there.  It turned out that I had to expand the built in
Terminal window and hit Enter to a message that said it was going to
restart some services.  Given that it said to close open programs before
starting upgrade, it could have just done it.

Now, since upgrade, my computer has frozen every time I've started it.  Not
X, mind you, but the OS.  I can't Ctrl Alt Backspace or F1.  Can't do
anything except (strangely) move the mouse pointer around.

Also, between boot and freeze there are other problems.  The Unity bar on
the left got changed to not auto hide, and when I set it back I had trouble
getting it to slide out. Its fancy little shadow quivers like it wants to
come out but can't. I have to shake the mouse a little.

And I have some trouble with the screen not updating as I scroll down
emails in Evolution.  If I move the mouse to the edge of the screen it
flashes and updates.

Just figured I'd share my story and suggest being cautious about upgrading
if you're running Ubuntu.

--
Todd
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