Comments on: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Beta Released: Testers Needed!

By: Puppet

Puppet — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:40:38 +0000

I’m testing the beta version, and everything seems to be quite ok.

About the boot process I found two boring things

1)) a [firmware bug] message appears during the boot, telling me to upgrade the firmware of my mobo. I fixed it simply activating the “cool’n quiet” option in the bios of my mobo.

2)) sometimes, very often actually, server x doesn’t start. Sometimes the sistem freezes on a gray screen, sometimes on the “waiting image” (you know, the little rounding ball…)

3)) (maybe related with 2) Grub gave me an error “Invalid environment block” and couldn’t start Karmic. I solved following the instructions in this link

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/439784

By: aditya

aditya — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:24:37 +0000

[ 13.180613] mmc0: Unknown controller version (2). You may experience problems.

this is what i get in boot process.. i am using dell vostro 1310 with base configurations....

By: ercoppa

ercoppa — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:45:23 +0000

Testing this is simple: boot your system and after you see a message about GRUB loading, you shouldnâ€™t see any other messages before you see the Ubuntu logo on a gray background. If you do see messages, you have found a bug.

Ubuntu dev are not agree with you [1].

[1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/441209

Greets, ercoppa.

By: OP

OP — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:11:20 +0000

I've been using Ubuntu for just under a year. I'd regard myself as non-technical, but might be up for helping with testing. There are however a few questions I'd have.

I assume that others might have similar issues. What follows is my suggestion for what I would add to the above post/include in a new one if I wanted to draw in new testers, previously not involved in the community.

(This sounds more critical than I'd intended. I'm genuinely trying to be helpful.)

1) How long it'll take to download. (I have some idea having updated from Hardy-Intrepid-Jaunty, but others might not.) i.e. it'll take approximately x time on a y speed connection.

2) What problems am I likely to experience? Presumably there's a list of bugs already identified on Launchpad somewhere? A prominent link to this would be useful.

3) If I download the beta now, how do I later move to the production version? Do I have to install the whole thing or will it simply be a few patches?

4) What else do I need beyond a computer and an internet connection (e.g. launchpad account)?

By: suryaden

suryaden — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:21:25 +0000

i've downloading today the beta version, after my lenovo just do not work for karmic alpha 6, after update... so i switch again to jaunty.

hope that the beta will run smooth on my lenovo g430... soon

By: beow

beow — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:05:26 +0000

Anywhere I can see how this jaws-dropping booting experience is supposed to look like? In my karmic beta it looks butt-ugly with low-res brown-greyish colors, much uglier than before in Jaunty. Indeed I have problems with boot messages displayed, and probably this will automagically fix itself, but I would surely appreciate a pointer to a video of the new boot process.

By: Horvoo

Horvoo — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:03:10 +0000

I’m testing beta version. This is beauty and more user centric.

By: Gian Mario Tagliaretti

Gian Mario Tagliaretti — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:20:07 +0000

I'm a bit disappointed that again networking is not working, and when the network doesn't work it' a pain to fix.

You should really stop the "running to ship the latest kernel nonsense"

By: jono

jono — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:10:31 +0000

Whoops! Thanks for the note, fixed!

By: jono

jono — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:07:46 +0000

I just tested IRC support in Empathy, looks fine to me.