Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala): Are You Experiencing Problems?

I have a problem with my HP6735S Broadcom Wireless network. Ubuntu 9.10 (64Bit) seems unable to detect the WiFi.

Well, I must be one of the 10% as I have installed 9.10 on four different computers 2 x 64 bit and 2 x 32 bit and have not had any major issues at all. I guess i must be lucky

were they fresh installs? or upgrades?

I’ve upgraded one older Pentium 4 system from 9.04 to 9.10 and had no problems. I did clean installs on a newer Dell 64 bit system and installed UNR on my netbook through Wubi, again without issue. Let’s wait awhile to see if this is a major problem. The few users with an issue tend to gripe loudly, while those without problems remain silent. Overall the reviews have been very positive. As always, a clean install is best for any OS.

I upgraded yesterday and my touchpad and sound stopped working. Burned a 9.10 bootable, thinking that would work but to no avail. Finally just burned a 9.04 bootable and re-installed. Have a Lenovo 3000 G530.

I installed 9.10 32-bit the day it came out and have not had any issues….yet.

Upgraded last night from 9.04 (worked fine) to 9.10
My system is an Athlon 1.4 on an Asus A7n8xe-dx, videocard is an ATI Radeon 9000.

-I no longer have sound
-Wireless (DLink) is not detected
-Icon for browser incorrect
-Cannot update desktop background
-Firefox only displays flash video haltingly or crashes
-Firefox crashes on various other sites
-About half the games are gone
-Opening and closing of windows is sometimes slow/halting
-System is generally slow

In short, I found this upgrade to be a mess. -RSW

Upgraded Dell Gx280 from 9.04 to 9.10. Sound stopped working and the PC seemed a bit sluggish. Ran a fresh install without any issues. Seems to run faster than 9.04. Also ran fresh installs on 2 dell d610′s, 1 d640 and 1 d630. All with no issues. I”m able to use bluetooth tethering out of the box for the first time with the d630.

Performed a fresh install of ubuntu 9.10 on several older AMD & P4 machines. All of them worked like a charm. No problems to report yet. I’ve always had problems using ubuntu on a new machine with an ATI card. I am still afraid to try it because of my experience with 9.04. Maybe next week I’ll have the courage to try.

I performed a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 today, and it froze on me several times in several different applications. I have now reinstalled Jaunty. I will wait to try Karmic in 6 months.

i too had some problems with ubuntu 9.10 32-bit(clean install)
-wireless not detected
-’rain drop’ sounds -esp during booting and turning off
-applications crashed few times.
Finally i went back to THE BEST-LINUX MINT 7 MAIN, and will wait for linux mint 8 (probably this month)
Sorry ubuntu, my vote is for LINUX MINT.

go buy a lottery ticket!

I did an upgrade from jaunty, on my small atom machine. It went good. But trying to install from a live cd was a nightmare, Did not recognise some hard drives.

me too

Linux Mint is Ubuntu based.

I can no longer use my modem. It is now always busy. All videos tint green when I play them. I get a loud audio pop every time I run anything with sound. Several game preferences have been reset. There were also more small problems that I fixed when I installed it last week.

I’m sure more bugs will turn up soon.

I really wish I had stuck with 9.4.

… and aesthetically, I really think the new boot screens are ugly.

I know its free software. But I am very very disappointed in 9.10 I wish I had never upgraded, if you are going to release a stable at least test it so at least 90% work not 10%. I have lost all confident in Linux as I went from a very nice working system (9.04) to this one. Slow, unusable, video does not work, etc. I am having to write this on a Windows machine, its embarrassing.
How do I get back to 9.04?

From above:
Richard says: and I concur…

-I no longer have sound
-Wireless (DLink) is not detected
-Icon for browser incorrect
-Cannot update desktop background
-Firefox only displays flash video haltingly or crashes
-Firefox crashes on various other sites
-About half the games are gone
-Opening and closing of windows is sometimes slow/halting
-System is generally slow

In short, I found this upgrade to be a mess. -RSW

I regretted upgrading. The worst problem is that DNS lookups take forever (20+ seconds), and I don’t have control over the ISP. This makes the system pretty much unusable for web browsing. Minor problems include a continuous humming when the volume is turned up and a broken user switcher applet.

I’ve got Karmic on a Dell Precision M60 with proprietary Nvidia 173.14.20 driver. If screen goes to sleep it won’t re-awaken with backlight on. Screen flicks on for 1/2 second then turns off. I toggle to terminal window and the same thing happens. Sometimes I can get the backlight to turn on by numerous toggles between text and X, other times I have to hard boot. Totally annoying as Jaunty was working swell. If Ubuntu is going to be sloppy then perhaps it’s time to move to another distro.

I did a fresh install yesterday and have had several problems, especially with the internet. Several reboots later, it’s giving me problems with mounting…it’s driving my wife nuts. Think I’ll reinstall Jaunty if this keeps up

upgraded, and have browsers crash on a repeated basis. Could be firefox, epiphany and seamonkey. All have crashed on me multiple times in a day. So something screwy with the various engines

also boot time is pushing 2 minutes, although I recently blacklisted floppy and that saved about 30 seconds on boot. Still much slower than Jaunty.

I’m considering a fresh install or another Linux. Jaunty wasn’t a help either with no madwifi support but Karmic at least detected wifi ok for me. I might try stability over flashy instead ie Debian haha

Just installed ubuntu 9.10. It erased my home partition with all of my media files (even though I configured it not to, wont do it that way again), and even though it detects my nvidia video card, it wont recognize it in the restricted drivers dialog. Back to linux mint for me.

I have upgraded both my desktop and my laptop to Karmic (with a fresh install) and they are working very well. 9.10 is faster than 9.04 both during boot and while working. My desktop had a problem with suspend, which was not present in jaunty (it indicated a crash after resume), but that disappeared a couple of days later (with one of the updates, I presume). Only problem is that my built-in Ricoh motioneye webcam is not working on my Vaio SZ 650 laptop, but that has been a permanent problem. It can be solved by installing a driver, but it has to be recompiled with each new kerner upgrade, so it is not worth it.

Updated from 9.04 to 9.10:

-No sound
-No wireless
-Bad icons
…

Clean install along side Windows 2K Pro on an old Inspiron P3 866mhz 512MB. Partitioning program was much easier (GUI) than with Intrepid. Faster overall install time too.

Machine is as fast as with Intrepid. Nice graphics.
So far, so good.

Just installed 9.10, now none of my 3D apps work. Seems to have affected open GL.

Upgraded to 9.10 from 9.04. Sound has gone. Cannot see printers, did remedy this using CUPS, but at next start up printers gone again. Sound shows mute in taskbar at each boot,-changing this does not restore sound. Evolution crashes if you try new email or reply…Cannot change screen display. In all a disaster!
Have Athlon 64 and Nvidia 7300

Upgraded kubuntu successfully on Dell desktop.

Both upgrade and fresh install on Lenovo X32 had problems.
Wireless worked OK. Window manager flaky … X windows
broke up and became unusable, and dotted lines appeared.

Upgraded from 9.04 on a IBM thinkpad R51. I no longer have a wireless connection (can see network, which is encrypted, but won’t connect) although wired is fine.

I have a Dell D630. A 64bit install(clean) was incredibly unstable with hard locks guaranteed after 30 mins or so. I’m having a lot better luck with the 32bit install and seems pretty solid so far.

There were some weird issues with the restricted drivers (nvidia, wireless) not available for a few reboots but everything came together eventually. 1st time I’ve been able to suspend successfully with no tweaks.

I’ve also installed it on my desktop(64bit clean) and it’s been rock solid and running very nicely. (Asus MB and Core i7).

regarding the green tint issue – after upgrade, all my videos turned blue.

Turns out that the upgrade messed with the hue setting in the video player. I fixed the setting and everything’s fine now.

Hi,

I have no problem with the upgrade because I use a good power supply.

Upgraded form 9.04 to 9.10. But afterwards a new install
og Ubuntu Karmic. Problems with wireless, the driver
rt2870sta.ko worked not well. But now put rt2800usb on the
blacklist, together with rt2870sta. A manual install
of the driver and wireless works. But that each time after
a start of the system. ( I also tried to compile a new
driver, but there I got all kind of errors?)
Further problem is that my memory stick falls away sometimes?
In 9.04 there were never problems with that memory stick, but
now I’m not sure if he is still mounted after some time.
Manual mounting the memory stick gives also problems, no idea, what device has to be taken, sdb1, sdd1? None of them work, manually. Automatically they were found by Ubuntu.
Further strange names for the mounts of the memory stick,
instead of the /media/disk in 9.04.
May be I will wait the next time several months before
I upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu.
As it goes at this moment I had not expected of Ubuntu,
most of the time it goes easier and less problems.

I upgraded to 9.10 like two days ago and I was using my wifi which is tethered from my g1 phone and it won’t connect even till now unless my husbands iphone is connected to my g1 it won’t recognize the signal as a connection, it comes up on the list of wifis around and it didn’t have this problem when I had the previous version? I don’t know what’s up with it but how can a program be released and not have these bugs that are so huge and noticeable I think you guys where trying space grass weren’t you ? Lol kk bai —-marci—- I <3 nerdz

W Simpson
Posted Saturday 7th November 2009 15:53 GMT

Upgraded ubuntu9.04 to 9.10; system has Athlon64,3.5, nvidia 7300.

This email is from another computer as evolution crashes as you click new email, or anything else except send/receive.

Audio has gone, taskbar shows mute sound at each boot, but still no sound when mute is shifted.

Printers not seen; can remedy this in CUPS, but at next boot they have gone again!

Cannot change display.

I guess as Evolution refuses to send that the estimate of problems is way under real %age.

Cant see any sign of awareness of what is a major problem on unbuntu forums, ( one said it’s Russian spell checking on in evolution that is the root, is there really anyone out there with Russian spellchecking on?

I intend to look at Mandriva. Thought occurred, could this be some malicious ware at work….?

New install of UBUNTU 9.10 AMD 64 Bit on two PC’s – Both working ok, SKYPE and DVD play work ok – WINE – and an MS Windows Game work ok.

New install of UBUNTU 9.10 32 Bit on one old PC – working ok, SKYPE ok. DVD play not yet working.

No problems found with these three new installs.

Alan…

I also upgraded to 9.10, had problems with wireless and sound. Have reinstalled 9.4

I have a weird problem, the volume control app does not show up on the panel or in Applications->sound. So I am unable to play mp3 songs on my machine..however, sound from the internet works (youtube etc).
System->Preferences->sound throws a dialog box saying that it is waiting for the Sound device to respond..

what the hell? First time in a year ive had problems with Ubuntu. Perhaps some micro’crap’ windows programmers have infiltrated the 9.10 code? Sabotage! Was so impressed with Google Sketchups improved performance in Wine while it was working.

me too

I did an upgrade on a Fujitsu notebook. During the first session, the mouse and touchpad did not work at all, leaving me to do a clean reboot using ctrl+alt+del.

During the second session, the screen went black unexpectedly, computer crashed.

After a 2nd reboot (and file check), I have this cryptic message saying that the partition cannot be mounted or something. I am left with a completely unuseable OS.

This upgrade must be avoided. Stay with 9.04.

Update- I tried a clean install of 9.10 on the same machine and had a bit better luck. Wireless works now, and things are a bit more snappy. Icons normal, and Firefox doesn’t crash, although halting flash video is still an issue, and the desktop image is still only viewable during shutdown- must be a driver issue. Sound worked after switching the selected output under preferences>sound>output (two identical devices appear!). It’s my backup machine, so I’ll keep the install and wait for an updated video driver.

I’ve upgrade to K.K from J.J.. My problem is unable to connect using Qualcomm UMTS Mobile Broadband, while in J.J is. I try the J.J Live CD and my card works fine..

I’ve been using Ubuntu for about 4 1/2 years now. I have had more issues with applications in Karmic Koala than any other release. I’m thinking about going back to Jaunty…

- MPlayer crashes everytime in GUI configuration (video driver selection)
- Xine crashes everytime in GUI configuration (speaker arrangement selection)
- Both MPlayer and Xine sometimes refuse to play media that it was able to play before–requires reboot to fix
- MythTV FrontEnd Segmentation Fault everytime it is loaded
- MythTV VideoManager (on the backend machine because the frontend doesn’t work at all) refuses to scan media directory making the MythVideo plugin pretty much useless unless you want to write a script to insert records into the MySQL database
- Rythmbox loses the ability to play audio every once in a while–there are no error messages nothing, requires reboot to fix
- default NVIDIA driver crashes entire OS on laptop without fail everytime (issue with PowerMizer)–have to install the latest NVIDIA driver and set PowerMizer to maximum performance
- Notifications in general don’t work properly

I have installed 9.10 on two machines (an HP Pavilion and a Acer Aspire 3810T). I’ve had no problems at all. Everything (sound, wireless, screen resolution, and even the built in webcam) works fine straight “out of the box”.

3 words: Don’t do it. Issues range from missing icons in Open Office to Evolution crashing to no audio to broken file associations to desktop cruft to… The more I use it the more I find. I feel like I just went from XP to Vista… until something significant changes in the distro, I think Vegas has better odds. Stick with 9.04 and avoid the headache.

Well it looks like I’m forced back to Jaunty. I can no longer remote into work from home. In Terminal Server Client I click connect and a window pops up for a few nanoseconds then disappears and it does not connect. Rebooting doesn’t fix this one.

(tsclient:5551): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.22.2/gobject/gsignal.c:2387: instance `0xdb01e0′ has no handler with id `1176′

I have done 10 clean installs of Ubuntu 9.10 on a USB external hard drive and one desperation install on a USB stick as a control install. The same problems occur on both devices. With one install, I was able to browse computers on our home LAN (Windows Server 2003)using the default installation, but not with any of the other installations. After booting into Ubuntu and in varying amounts of time icons disappear and clicking on any application or menu item produces no reaction. Dialog boxes open but there is no text. Font is replaced by squares as though the English fonts are not available. The only way to shutdown the PC is to power down the notebook. When I boot Ubuntu into the recover mode, scrolling text says the device does not exist (this while the drive run light is blinking indicating there is communication with the device. The notebook is a Medion P6613, quad-core, 4 GB memory, 2 gHz machine. BTW, for each installation, the destination hard drive was de-partitioned and re-partitioned using the Ubuntu disk utility. The drive was checked for errors with Ubuntu and Windows 7 and results indicated the drive had no problems.

The usual fix for this is to remove the Pulse-Audio package.

Am new to Linux and Ubuntu. My experience with Jaunty was just great and I have been extolling its virtues to friends and kin. When the ‘Upgrade’ option popped up, went for it. Now I get the Ubuntu signature tune but a blank screen. At my wit’s end as to how to roll back to Jaunty.

I have a dual boot(Ubuntu and XP) Acer Aspire 5738 with Intel Core 2 Duo 16400 (2 Ghz 800 Mhz), and 3 GB memory.

Can anyone help? Am honestly rather challenged by the ‘terminal’ screen! Anyways, am just getting a blank display as of now.

I performed an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 as an (32 bit OS). All went smoothly. Worked like a charm. Decided I’d try the 64 bit version of 9.10. TOTAL MISTAKE!!! Required a clean install.

I’ve spent ages sorting out dual boot issues due to a new grub version (its at a beta level) – search for issues with GRUB2. After sorting that I now can’t connect the wireless.

Luckily having dual boot means I can go back to Windows. Never thought I’d say that!!!!

Stick with 9.04 until they sort their **** out.

I tried Karmic, but it did not recognize my Broadcom wifi. I got this working using a fix someone posted, but the Software Center says “data is not available” of some such everytime I try to download a package. Went back to Jaunty, which has always worked perfectly for me.

I am facing issues with the sound. It was working fine in Ubuntu 9.04 but after upgrading it to 9.10 it has started creating trouble.

I have Dell Studio 1535. I tested the sound using command

$ speaker-test -Dplug:surround40 -c4 -l1 -twav

I can hear the sound sometimes but not always.

Thanks!

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 and it does not work at all. The screen is blank after the splash screen has disappeared and the startup is finished. If I press ALT-F2 I can use the text-based shell, but the GUI won’t start.

This is really annoying and I don’t have time to troubleshoot anymore.

I have a HP Pavilion laptop with a ATI Radeon Mobility 200M graphics card. I’ve tried all kinds of drivers for the card, but nothing works!

Upgraded a pico-itx computer from 9.04 to 9.10. Everything seemed to go fine, but now I lose all sound quite often. (total silence) Rebooting, restores sound, but have been unable to find a way to simply keep it from breaking in the first place.

Upgraded two machines, one and custom desktop with GeForce 8800 card that I dual-boot with Windows XP (for gaming), and another an HP NC6000C laptop. Major problems with both. The Desktop worked fairly well for a while, but occasionally, I’d get a “White Screen of Death” that no amount of fiddling would get rid of. Also, if I did a cold reboot, my sound card (Soundblaster Audigy Pro) would simply stop working (either booting to Windows or back into Linux). Only a full power-down reset would bring it back.

On the laptop, which is Ubuntu only, the Atheros WiFi card was problematic, I finally got it working, but it would periodically just stop talking to the router.

I downgraded both machines back to Jaunty. I’ll wait for Canonical to solve some of these problems.

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10, both 64 bit. No wireless problems, but the wired connection will spaz out on certain web pages, and won’t unfreeze until the all browsers are closed. Sometimes not even then. I’ve tried every way on the net to disable IPv6, and though it helped with dns lookups, it hasn’t fixed the lock ups.

Well my main problem with audio

my X-fi was supposed to work out of the box and it had sound but it was so muffled with distortions.i tried it all to fix it but eventually i just clean installed jaunty.

I think they need to remember their moto “It Should just work” it didn’t

Tried both x86 and x64 version of Ubuntu 9.10 . Both of them are unable to detect wifi. Back to 9.04

cannot connect ubuntu 9.10 to internet. Have vodafone huawei 272 mobile module usb connection. Clearly I need software but where and how? Also tried to play mp3 music already loaded on my harddrive without success.The player reported a missing gstreamer plugin was required. Without internet cannot load missing plugin. I am a newbie to ubuntu and loaded it within windows partition on a trial basis.
PS I did google using windows and found some suggested site for plugins but you need to be a rocket scientist to establish what software to download and how to implement it.

I did an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 on a Dell Optiplex with Intel Pentium 4HT and Acer 19 inch monitor. I received invalid bad disk errors and the System Menu icons did not show up. Karmic would not recognize my Acer monitor or my video card. Screen resolution was automatically set at 800 by 600 with only two options that did not work for my 1440 by 900 screen. These are just a few of the awful errors. Two days of troubles and time wasted! Did a fresh install of Jaunty…no problems…everything worked perfect again! I ordered the Karmic disc and will try a clean install instead of upgrade to see if it makes a difference…until then I will stick with what works..Jaunty!!

installed koala 32 bit the day it came out. installed in less then 5 minutes (usb disk). worked perfect inc. suspend, however, it would not play .avi. there was no apparant fix. so i installed 64 in less then 5 mins again and this works perfect. suspend works, wireless works, flash and vids, sound, everything.

regards

floppy divers do not work right when i mount the drive it tells me there’s No media in the drive

I have just experience “karma” from koala after i updated (100mb i think the total…) the system. Hoping that karmic would perform even better. But what did i get? After restarting the system, i have lost the sound and my laptop centrino (Core 2 duo T5500) seem to work slow rendering the compiz (i guess the framerate dropped out…) just like jaunty in early release (well, jaunty is great know, after the update and stuff…) It makes me regred why i rush updating this system…. i should waiting the LTS, lucid linx…

Bad experience with 9.10
out of nowhere stopped recognising the wireless
I’m on a new Dell Inspiron 1450
Did a clean install, then went back to 9.04 – the machine still didn’t recognise the wireless — ethernet connection is fine

not happy

The 9.10 upgrade from 9.04 hosed the video display manager on my Asus M3N78-VM based computer. The system boots to a flickering login prompt. I cannot login however as only a few sporadic key entries are registerd by the login prompt. I had a very stable 9.04 system. I had a level of confidence in the system as a result of implementing several of the updates. I thought, what the hell, put a stop to the stupid whining from the upgrade query. My system is now way beyond hosed. It’s a brick, a warm foot rest, a cheap boat anchor. I have too many other projects to wait for this to resolve itself. What a p.i.t.a upgrade. Fork the upgrade (FU) daemon to /dev/null and live happily ever after.

ubuntu desktop 9.10
I’ve had failures, lockups, slowness, firefox freezes, grub errors like c/h/s values errors..
on 4 different 32 bit 2GB+ mem intel (dell and hp) machines…

I’m going back to 8.04…

i upgraded everything works fine exept for the videos: there is a sort of blue filter on every video

Does anybody know how to fix it?

About 2 weeks ago, I performed the update on my 5-year-old Samsung-Notebook from 9.04 (which worked really fine) to 9.10.
Now, I experience total crashes. Till now I was unable to correctly figure out what causes them – my assumptions:
- firefox upgrade (but also one crash where firefox wasn’t running)
- java upgrade (maybe firefox-plugin?)
- new graphic-driver (ati radeon 9700)
The crashes happen (not every time) when playing youtube-videos, randomly browsing (maybe java-plugins), resizing the gnome image-viewer (although I think firefox was running), and once while only using Evolution-mail/calendar.

If I can’t find any solution, I will also (unfortunately) go back to 9.04.
Should anybody know about any help, let me know!

I recently updated to 9.10 and I’m very disappointed. I plan on attempting a clean install soon, or reverting back to the LTS 8.04.

Problems exprienced:

-Strange popping noises in mp3 playback and video playback. They almost sound like electrical issues.
-Getting Flash to work in Firefox is like playing Russian Roulette–sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. When it DOES work, I’m experiencing problems with mouse recognition on all Flash scripts and gui’s. I’ve tried the manufactured scripts to fix the mouse issue, but with no luck.
-My wireless network goes in and out regularly. It seems that the only thing that allows me to reconnect to the wireless network is a reboot.
-Firefox crashes a lot… A LOT!
-System processes are as slow as a grandmother on Sunday morning.

I’m running AMD Turion Dual Core RM-70, 64-bit system, 4GB DDR2, ATI graphics, just in case you’re curious.

I’ve gone back to using Ubuntu 9.08, this new one is going to be linux’s VISTA
I upgrade my travelmate 240 laptop and it failed to recognize the keyboard or touch pad after I rebooted, so I did a fresh install.
It intermittently freezes and reboots, but i cant narrow down why?
The last straw came when i was using a bluetooth GPS dongle. The Bulz demon failed and wouldnt come back….so its back to 9.08 for me.

I have updated recently to 8.04 to 9.10 (oh what a mistake!!!) and I have found the following issues:

1. Sometimes, I am not able to VIEW the loging screen, after choosing Ubuntu from Grub2 menu (I have a dual boot desktop). It simply doesnt show the desktop. The screen goes blank.
2. same happens when switching from one user to other (generally, from a less powerful user to a more powerful one) or Logging off.
3. Brasero is not stable. One CD is burned OK and the next will simply fail with no good reason (workaround, simulate the writing first or use another burner program)

I can live with 3, but 1 and 2 are unbearable

Finally gave up on 9.10. Too many problems. Lock-ups. slow internet. Just installed Mandriva 2010. No problems with this distro.

All is well, except I keep having trouble when I want to have two screens:

windos jump from one side to the other,
they get stacked to the side when maximized, etc…

And since I have a real small screen on my laptop this is really important = S

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 3 different times. The last time was a clean install with a thorough disc format. I continue to have problems with audio playback of MP3 and other audio files. I have tried Movie player, Rhythmbox, Mplayer, and VLC. The file usually begins to play for a few seconds, then skips and plays quickly to the end and either can’t be heard or is unintelligible.

I’m going back to 9.04

my first ubuntu 64 install under windows Vista for my Acer laptop was ubuntu 8.10. It worked very well. The later updates for Ubuntu 8 caused some minor glitches but it still worked.

When i upgraded to ubuntu 9.04, it crashed beyond repair. I lost all my data. I had to uninstall ubuntu via windows and reinstall it back using WUBI. It was unable to recognise my window partition therefore it was unable to locate ubuntu root. There are compatibility issues with GRUB2.

Then came ubuntu 9.10. It crashed again and again i had to reinstall it via windows. It worked fine after that. when i update Ubuntu 9.10, it crashed again. I ended up looking at the super grub prompt and could not get into the desktop. So I uninstalled it again.

But this time i cannot install ubuntu9.10 via WUBI. Whenever i tried to install it, it would give this message “permission denied .. view log files at .. ”

Seems that GRUB2 are the cause of the problems when using WUBI to install under windows

I upgraded 2 machines from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. I reported a bug with the laptop battery monitor. I have found that I lose functionality with 9.10. I have less control over the sound and some of the AcidRip program features don’t work after the upgrade. Also, if I make a link to a folder and put the link on my desktop, the link icon always moves to the top left of the desktop after I log in, when it used to stay put (I know this is trivial). On the other machine, Ubuntu 9.10 can’t seem to mount my 2nd DVD drive — 9.04 had no problems.

I hope all is fixed by 10.04 or I’ll find another distro.

Greeting fellow Ubuntu users. I would like to add my 2 cents. I have upgraded 4 workstations to 9.10 and did a clean install on 3 other workstations. So far, things are reasonable – and I mean that exactly – reasonable. Sound is a popular problem, pulseaudio is .. buggy at best and reverting to ALSA is an okay workaround. I can no longer get text label in the toolbar icons in several applications, and I really dislike that. Many of the core applications have gone back to using their project names, for example Gedit and GParted – instead of the FAR MORE user-friendly names like “Text Editor” and “Partition Editor”. This is a HUGE deal for me, and I’m surprised it was allowed – please change this back – think of all those newbie users who are just going to turn up their noses. Sure, *I* know what they are, but it’s going backward in the eyes of the public. The loss of CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is a crying shame. Sure, not used often, but come on, who is REALLY going to hit that by MISTAKE. I have been using Ubuntu for 3 years now, and loving it, but this 9.10 is like WinME – terrible. Let’s go back to 8.10 and then go foward – I will be. Terrible. This is the FIRST release I have disliked; the upgrades are usually EXCELLENT. So serious forward-looking decisions have been botched if you ask me. We’ll see what the next one brings.

Oh yes, and what a terrible time to have this kind of thing happen with the new W7 just out. I was cheering for Ubuntu to pick up some new followers, and it deserves to from it’s past excellent track record. However, this is really going to hurt that idealistic vision, and set back people thinking about switching. That’s just .. a great loss.

Going back to 9.04. Ubuntu 9.10 is unusable. Complete garbage that is riddled with bugs.

Well i have installed Ubuntu 9.0 severaltimes as i am just now moving to linux and after installing it the first time i decided to try some other linux distro’s thinking i might find one i liked better but they either gave me problems on install or just didn’t feel comfortable to me most wouldn’t even work and went back to ubuntu 9.10 and still had no issues installing it.
I have found and performed some tweaks and adjustments online that have improved the perfomance but i have been very happy with it

A blank screen on ThinkPad x61s after login (I’ve just upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10). Nothing works, only the mouse cursor moves, well done and merry Xmas.

Boot up hangs with Black screen of death. Sometimes have to use recover mode but it’s a crap shoot.

Flickering Graphics on brand new Clevo notebook. Updated restricted drivers but nothing changed.

Kiba dock text is blacked-out.

Sound is weak and intermittent.

Videos hang and sometimes pixels go haywire scrambling the feed.

Worst release by Ubuntu yet.

DO NOT USE THIS JUNK!

I had problems with grub 2 can’t use the simple 3 step command to re install ie sudo grub
install hd0,1
setup hd0
plus theres no gui for removing entries ie k grub /q grub
filesystem fails to boot need to use fsck command which adds entries in grub 2
wireless disconnects alot /signals weaker than on ubuntu 8.10
and theres no installing more than one piece of software at one time with software centre but you can with add/remove software apt.
there’s no remember athurisation for drives there is in 9.04-8.10
you need to reprogram filesystem for this .

pain in the ass.

8.10 lacked all these issues

hi,
i installed ubuntu 9.10 on my hp dv 6000 laptop, now in network manager area it is not showing option for wireless lan,

sir i have compaq laptop amd processor when i start ubantu after some time hang the desktop what can i do

I upgraded from ubuntu 9.04 jaunty to 9.10 karmic koala via internet. Now after upgrade I cannot connect to the internet no matter how much I try.
I have adsl modem & I use bsnl 2 mbps broadband.. This is a major issue. Please help

wat did u do bout it?? m facing the same prob! pls suggest solns?

Jason, I had the exact same problem with the installation disk. Wouldn’t recognize one of my HDs. Period. 9.04 did fine. I also tried to install the 185 NVidia drivers for my 8800GTX and now it wont boot. Think I’ll stick with 9.04 for a while.

Admittedly a clueless newbie, but hearing that Ubuntu is robust and superior in many ways to Windows, I dared to do a full install (cleared disk) Ubuntu 9.10 on a new but quite modest machine…

Celeron 2.4 Ghz
Intel 845 chipset
DDR RAM 512 Mb
80 Gb SATA HD
ATI Rage AGP 16 Mb
CD-ROM and diskette readers

…went with the obvious defaults. Everything seemed to work, including sound, mouse monement, text, etc. Ran a couple of programs. Ne error messages or warnings. I shut down, then rebooted, and got only a blinking dash in the upper left of the screen. Again no error message or robot vomit.

Dead in the water, with this plain vanilla configuration. And no clue as to how to fix it or what went wrong.

At this point, my opinion of Ubuntu is that it needs work before the geeks let it out of the sandbox.

In a not to old equipment (MSI Netwind U100)it’s a step backwards that things working perfect in previous versions now give issues (webcam, usb, suspend…) and what’s more: 3 months later still have not been solved. I’ll wait with hope next release to see what happen. Any case, I’ll continue using and recommending Ubuntu.

hi. i have many problems:
-mic doesnt work, i wasted a lot of time to fix this, didnt work (acer aspire 6930g)
-why is there no divx player?!
-now it starts getting worse… sometimes it doesnt start correctly; after 1/2 hr or longer running the keyboard stops working and wlan goes offline.
damn this is a bad os, but even better than vista
i tried to fix this with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop, didnt chage anything, can i do something else?

No support for proprietary ATI Rageon X600 driver. Open source one is a crap
Intrepid had support for X600 and I could play games.
Now its impossible. That is not the only problem.
Canonical wants to jump ahead of itself. How can they release Karmic Koala if they didn't fix Jaunty yet?
Its better to have one proper release every 2 years than 2 buggy
releases every year.

awesome…! I know what it is like to deal with Win2k… i hate it..

I just installed k3b on the Ubuntu 9.10, and now I am facing problems with flickering blank pages, and my icons that were on the desktop are disappearing.

When I go to drag another icon to the desktop, it just falls into thin air…

now I only started having problems with it right after I installed K3b, to burn Ubuntu onto a disc.. if anybody knows a fix on this please inform me thanks!

I m unable to connect internet on Ubuntu 9,10
My connection is DSL

I installed 9.10 on an old laptop (p3 650 mhz). It seems to work fine except when I open a folder and attempt to scroll through the contents. I then freezes up. I have attempted to tweek the mouse settings to no avail. Any suggestions?