Re: [PLUG] Natty Narwhal

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:39:00 -0400
> From: Steve Slaughter<steve2slaughter@gmail.com>
>
> I accepted the upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 (CN: natty narwhal), and
> now when I reboot, it hangs right before the splash screen displays.  The
> upper 40% of the screen is distorted, and I see no text or any indication of
> boot progress.

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Other folks have already addresses the questions above, but I thought it 
might be useful to chime in "for the next time."

My policy, based in part on such posts as [1] is one of the following, 
depending on the sensitivity of the machine:

1) Upgrade about 1-2 weeks before the official release.
2) Upgrade 3-4 weeks after the release (3-6 weeks or longer if LTS).
3) Use the LTS releases and follow the above.

I have 1 VM and 1 live machine I don't really care about running Natty 
beta.  I'll update them in a week or two.  All my other machines run 
Debian (servers) or Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (workstations, MythTV server).

FWIW,
JP
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[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1741924&goto=newpost
[...]
In pretty much every upgrade cycle, we see a number of corrupted 
upgrades due to Ubuntu's servers being overrun with early adopters. We 
would advise you to wait a week or so before doing the online upgrade. 
There are two advantages to waiting: First, you are less likely to 
experience a corrupted upgrade; and second, any bugs that were missed in 
initial testing most likely will be squashed in a week or two.
[...]

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