The Ocelot has Landed!

[James Gifford]

What I do now is a clean install, I generally wipe /home as well then restore from my backup. 

Cheers,
James Gifford

On Oct 13, 2011, at 16:08, Cory Sadowski <csadowski08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think I've ever had an upgrade go flawlessly either. There's
> always SOMETHING that messes up...I finally seem to have gotten in the
> habit of reinstalling every other version or better. I really wish
> there was a way to ensure a smoother upgrade...in theory it all makes
> sense, but then I'd have all sorts of weird things happening, like
> mplayer's keyboard shortcuts being randomly remapped to crazy things
> in the tty and vlc not working in the tty. One time I had Compiz break
> in a bunch of weird ways too, culminating in a "hole" on the desktop.
> Lots of other misc weird things too. It's a complicated beast, I guess.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:21:24PM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
>> FYI: The 11.04 "upgrade" _did_ break my system.  A freshly
>> downloaded ISO installed on top of the damaged / and /home did not
>> work. I ended up having to format the partition and reinstall from
>> scratch.
>> 
>> On 10/13/2011 11:59 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>>> On 10/13/2011 01:58 PM, Gareth McCumskey wrote:
>>>> I haven't had a chance yet, still at work here and the last thing I want
>>>> to do is upgrade the OS during the middle of a work day. But I sure am
>>>> champing at the bit to get it installed!!
>>> Your computer some how broke and you need to "reinstall" to fix it? ;)
>>> 
>>> 
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