Ubuntu Upgrade from 11.10. to 12.04

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

On 03/05/2012 17:53, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> I recently upgraded as above and all went well with 2 exceptions.
>
> 1    Upgrade Manager went into an infinite loop during the attempted
> download of the flash-plugin installer. Manual download outside of the
> Upgrade Manager succeeded whilst the afore mentioned program was looping

Strange, but maybe adobe's site was down? Mine upgraded, including
flash-plugins...

> 2    The impertinent programmer struck again and modified my BIOS
> without permission (as also happened during upgrade from 11.04 to
> 11.10). This cannot be justified as any part of an upgrade process.

That's even stranger. How could it have modified BIOS? And more
importantly, WHAT did it modify?

> Before I raise bug reports I would like to canvas opinion and
> establish if anyone else has bumped into these bugs.

Have you checked if there are similar reported bugs?

Gilles.