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Oh dear, I still have a server on 8.04 and a desktop with 9.04. I'm falling behind the times, it seems, but I'm too paranoid about doing something to kmail to u

Oh dear, I still have a server on 8.04 and a desktop with 9.04. I'm falling behind the times, it seems, but I'm too paranoid about doing something to kmail to upgrade. the server, well, I'm too paranoid about doing something to anything to upgrade that.

akkartik 17y ago
I upgraded from dapper to jaunty 8 months ago with repeated edits to sources.list and dist-upgrades. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
dpifke 17y ago
In my experience, `do-release-upgrade` works seamlessly and you shouldn't fear upgrading. It's part of the upgrade-manager-core package.
- usaar333 17y ago
  You've been lucky. Every single computer I updated to 9.10 would not boot initially. I had to spend hours on each one resolving the problems.
  - rbanffy 17y ago
    Actually, what would best describe it is that you have been terribly unlucky. Every single computer I installed Ubuntu, since the 6.x releases, has worked flawlessly with one exception - an IBM desktop that has a buggy HDD controller that requires some time to properly boot. One line in grub and it was solved. And that was it. The only glitch I ever had installing Ubuntu.
- code_duck 16y ago
  I've had a couple of problems here and there with configurations. The worst one was my fault : I edited my crontab on ym home machine, and sent it by sftp to the server and put it in /etc. Everything was fine, until a week later I did a routine aptitude upgrade.... and then I woke up to find out my cronjobs hadn't been running for the past 9 hours. This could be like a riddle! But well, what happened is I had non-root ownership on the crontab. When cron restarted, it saw this, logged an error and refused to budge another inch. I've had a few other configuration related errors, to. We run a pretty tight company (in terms of, no time to do anything extra) and so I'm wary of inadvertently changing some vital configuration that I haven't thought of in a year or two.
eru 17y ago
You should do backups.

akkartik 17y ago

I upgraded from dapper to jaunty 8 months ago with repeated edits to sources.list and dist-upgrades. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

dpifke 17y ago

In my experience, `do-release-upgrade` works seamlessly and you shouldn't fear upgrading. It's part of the upgrade-manager-core package.

usaar333 17y ago
You've been lucky. Every single computer I updated to 9.10 would not boot initially. I had to spend hours on each one resolving the problems.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  Actually, what would best describe it is that you have been terribly unlucky. Every single computer I installed Ubuntu, since the 6.x releases, has worked flawlessly with one exception - an IBM desktop that has a buggy HDD controller that requires some time to properly boot. One line in grub and it was solved. And that was it. The only glitch I ever had installing Ubuntu.
code_duck 16y ago
I've had a couple of problems here and there with configurations. The worst one was my fault : I edited my crontab on ym home machine, and sent it by sftp to the server and put it in /etc. Everything was fine, until a week later I did a routine aptitude upgrade.... and then I woke up to find out my cronjobs hadn't been running for the past 9 hours. This could be like a riddle! But well, what happened is I had non-root ownership on the crontab. When cron restarted, it saw this, logged an error and refused to budge another inch. I've had a few other configuration related errors, to. We run a pretty tight company (in terms of, no time to do anything extra) and so I'm wary of inadvertently changing some vital configuration that I haven't thought of in a year or two.

eru 17y ago

You should do backups.