Just spent 2 hours trying to get Meerkat to work but I couldn't get out of the command prompt. Finally, just had to give up and recover from an image (vbox) that I saved from Early September. Man, am I perturbed non the less. 4am now too and now just can't sleep. Why Ubuntu; why? lol

Now, getting a months worth of updates (minus Meerkat; won't do that again for a few months anyway. Might download the image and try to update from a pseudoCD rather then update using Update Manager.).

i learned in the hard way...NEVER NEVER try to upgrade Ubuntu to a new major release.
Just back up what needed and overwrite with the newer release

Last time i did was almost fine except for a little but strategically placed bug in Grub ,
as result Windows patition was no more accessible and i had not only to back up linux but also windows and reformat everything.

But everytime i had problems...update is fine but uppgrade is too risky

My vent is that I still can't get Python Wrap Map, Fog and others to work. They show up that they are there and they are not greyed out. But when I click them, nothing happens.
On Wrap map, I made the two layers first layer, transparent, second layer 25x25 with gradient. then I click, and no box comes up. The same thing with the Fog filter.
This is where I have the wrap-map-0.3py installed.
C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins
I want that so bad cuz I just love those frames that "o" and PM were making with it....

This is my first post to this forum.

Hi y'all,

Had the same problem with upgrading for Lucid to Meerkat from the update manager. I save to the cloud anyway (Dropbox), so I had a no problem installing fresh from a USB pen drive. Although this is not the preferred option as I then had to spend a few hours importing contacts/settings/bookmarks etc. Thought it was just me who had issues.

i had the same issue at any major relese, ..but maybe because my system grow quite different from the default (i.e, i had both KDE and gnome because i needed use some sw that require kde)

Took half a hour to get the netbook edition live CD to boot, but got an error and needed to boot into the desktop edition and then I couldn't make a live USB. Are they sure this is the stable release.
TightGrip, how did you manage to make your pendrive?

May be stable but is a PITA to install
Apparently everything went fine for me but, when i had to restart to complete the install Grub was no more able to load Linux.

And so now i must overwrite everything again

PS that really stable should be the previous 10.04 that offer 3 years support
this is one of the short term release planned to be replaced in 6 mounth ( ..so just at soon all the bugs are fixed )

I've got linux mint 9 on a pendrive right now. But haven't installed it yet because it still has some major hardware compatibility issues. Was hoping some of them were fixed. Don't mind things like shortkeys not working but I cannot set the touchpad to lefthanded and the mic and headphones don't work. Got the latter to work but not the rest yet. A shame really because surfing the internet is much faster.

Have you tried setting the perms for those Python files Molly?

Should have heeded my warning PC. lol (laughing with you not at you). I guess we both still have to go through the school of hard knocks. lol

As a side note, just finished updates to my XP Virtual PC VM (keep it for a few of my Dad's programs that I've been too lazy to figure out why they won't work in VBOX XP), Win7 and Office (still have an issue with my Office updates, and have to always download and install the Administrator patches but those will work; time consuming none the less), and my VBox XP VM (easiest of the bunch; saved it for last since it is a stress reliever; lol). Well over an hour later, I finally am able to type this. What a pain. Going to copy this part to my thread at DPR too.