Hardy Heron open for uploads

Hardy Heron open for uploads

Posted Oct 30, 2007 21:08 UTC (Tue) by serxxx (guest, #48780)
Parent article: Hardy Heron open for uploads

My issue wasn't so much with the upgrader not working; like almost everybody else, the Kubuntu upgrader was a disaster, but using either the command-line client or the Ubuntu upgrader seemed to work.

No, my problems were with regressions in Ubuntu and/or the Linux kernel itself. I am not using any proprietary drivers.

First off, screen rotation -- which was working beautifully in Feisty -- was utterly broken under Dapper. This was an X regression. Then, on a different laptop, suspend to RAM AND to disk (both working in Feisty) both stopped working after the upgrade to 7.10. Also, network performance was noticeably degraded on both laptops after the upgrade. Finally, within a week of upgrading to Dapper, a libc upgrade (at least, I suspect that this was the culprit) destroyed KDE -- every KDE app segfaulted.

I finally gave up and downgraded both laptops to Feisty Fawn, and everything is working again.

There were a couple of nice changes in Dapper; suspend on the one laptop where it still worked after the upgrade was much faster. Also, some of the init scripts had tweaks specific to my laptop that I previously had to do by hand. And the prospect of the new xrandr was enticing. However, no amount of new features are worth the horrible regressions in Dapper; when an upgrade renders your computer unusable, it is time to revert.

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Do you really mean "Dapper" (Dapper Drake, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS) or perhaps you meant to write
"Gutsy" (Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10)?