marcocimmino.net » hardy http://www.marcocimmino.net il mio blog nudo e crudo Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 From Hardy Heron to Karmic Koala http://www.marcocimmino.net/2009/10/24/from-hardy-heron-to-karmic-koala/ http://www.marcocimmino.net/2009/10/24/from-hardy-heron-to-karmic-koala/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:16:40 +0000 Marco Cimmino http://www.marcocimmino.net/?p=1253 Thursday I upgraded after 1 year and half my Linux let Hardy Heron 8.04 fly away in favor of the brand new Karmic Koala Kubuntu 9.10 RC1 and of course issues raised.

hardy-heron_ubuntu-8-04 karmic_koala

There are two type of issues:
1. usability issues
2. upgrade issues

I experienced both types!

1. Let’s start from the documentation and after getting rid of the initial windows I got this… but possible you can’t see it? The window is too small to read the whole text, WATTA F**K!

kubuntu_8.04to9.10rc1_01

2. Then I continued and finally I got the update to start, I wanted to follow the update, but… scrollbar does not follow the bottom, WATTA F**K!

kubuntu_8.04to9.10rc1_02

3. Ok I kept scrolling to see what is happening… after a while I got a cups update error that started eating also 1 out of 2 of my cpu… WATTA F**K!

4. All right I kept going on with one cpu out, update luckily continued despite the error.
Eventually it finished and I got the window that asked me to remove software, again I can’t read, the window is too small!!! WATTA F**K!

kubuntu_8.04to9.10rc1_04

5. Let’s enlarge it! If you see it still says “Fetching installing the upgrade can take several hours” but upgrade is already finished, installer should only remove few packages, WATTA F**K!

kubuntu_8.04to9.10rc1_05

6. Ok I removed those packages and proceed to the reboot.
After reboot nvidia drivers are no more installed and nv drivers are instead used, WATTA F**K!

7. So I tried to fix the issue installing via jockey latest nvidia drivers that supports my nVidia Quadro NVS 140M and after installation completed perfectly, X does not start anymore, it fails with the error:

Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!

WATTA F**K!

After many hours of research I found the issue and is easy to fix:

uninstall all linux-restricted-modules-common packages
delete the file /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video

Seems this stupid file was left-over from Hardy installation even if I uninstalled all linux-restricted-modules-common packages and was provoking the nvidia load failure.
I filed a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/459829

Sorry but after FOUR usability issues and THREE upgrade issues, I can’t say that the upgrade is user friendly!

I will speak in the next days about the new Kubuntu 9.10, still a lot of usability issues here and there! Stay tuned!

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After:

here we are on with pre-compiled Kdenlive 0.7.3 package.

For who wants to know what is changed here is release notes.
Instructions:

  • Install (only for Ubuntu 8.04) KDE 4.1 libraries in your Ubuntu: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1.2
  • Unpack zip file to your favourite directory
  • Open in an text editor the file: <dir>/bin/kdenlive_start
  • Modify the line:
    export INSTALL_DIR=/home/marco/kdenlive
    according to the location where you unpacked the package
  • Run the file: <dir>/bin/kdenlive_start
  • Enjoy!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD KDENLIVE 0.7.3 PRECOMPILED ZIP PACKAGE – 27.17 MB

Information about revisions of modules at the time of compilation:
ffmpeg: Revision: 18599 Last Changed Date: 2009-04-17 22:05:27 +0200 (Fri, 17 Apr 2009)
mlt: Revision: 1413 Last Changed Date: 2009-04-16 19:31:41 +0200 (Thu, 16 Apr 2009)
mlt++: Revision: 1413 Last Changed Date: 2009-04-15 08:36:02 +0200 (Wed, 15 Apr 2009)
kdenlive: Revision: 3320 Last Changed Date: 2009-04-17 09:24:04 +0200 (Fri, 17 Apr 2009)
uname -a at time of compilation:
Linux t61-marco 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 21:47:28 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Information about cc at the time of compilation:
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v –enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang –prefix=/usr –enable-shared –with-system-zlib –libexecdir=/usr/lib –without-included-gettext –enable-threads=posix –enable-nls –with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2 –program-suffix=-4.2 –enable-clocale=gnu –enable-libstdcxx-debug –enable-objc-gc –enable-mpfr –enable-targets=all –enable-checking=release –build=i486-linux-gnu –host=i486-linux-gnu –target=i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
/usr/bin/dpkg
Found dpkg – running dpkg -l to grep libc6
ii  libc6                                      2.7-10ubuntu4                                              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libc6-dev                                  2.7-10ubuntu4                                              GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
ii  libc6-i686                                 2.7-10ubuntu4                                              GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi
Information about kde 4 at the time of compilation:
Qt: 4.4.1
KDE: 4.1.2 (KDE 4.1.2)
kde4-config: 1.0

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For who wants to know what is changed here is release notes.
Instructions:

  • Install (only for Ubuntu 8.04) KDE 4.1 libraries in your Ubuntu: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1.2
  • Unpack zip file to your favourite directory
  • Open in an text editor the file: <dir>/bin/kdenlive_start
  • Modify the line:
    export INSTALL_DIR=/home/marco/kdenlive
    according to the location where you unpacked the package
  • Run the file: <dir>/bin/kdenlive_start
  • Enjoy!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD KDENLIVE 0.7.2 PRECOMPILED ZIP PACKAGE – 29.91 MB

Information about revisions of modules at the time of compilation:
ffmpeg: Revision: 17306 Last Changed Date: 2009-02-15 03:35:32 +0200 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009)
mlt: Revision: 1357 Last Changed Date: 2009-02-14 10:53:48 +0200 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009)
mlt++: Revision: 1357 Last Changed Date: 2009-02-04 17:49:35 +0200 (Wed, 04 Feb 2009)
kdenlive: Revision: 3051 Last Changed Date: 2009-02-14 22:55:19 +0200 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009)
uname -a at time of compilation:
Linux t61-marco 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Information about cc at the time of compilation:
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v –enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang –prefix=/usr –enable-shared –with-system-zlib –libexecdir=/usr/lib –without-included-gettext –enable-threads=posix –enable-nls –with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2 –program-suffix=-4.2 –enable-clocale=gnu –enable-libstdcxx-debug –enable-objc-gc –enable-mpfr –enable-targets=all –enable-checking=release –build=i486-linux-gnu –host=i486-linux-gnu –target=i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
/usr/bin/dpkg
Found dpkg – running dpkg -l to grep libc6
ii libc6 2.7-10ubuntu4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libc6-dev 2.7-10ubuntu4 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
ii libc6-i686 2.7-10ubuntu4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi
Information about kde 4 at the time of compilation:
Qt: 4.4.1
KDE: 4.1.2 (KDE 4.1.2)
kde4-config: 1.0

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After Kdenlive 0.7 on 2008 here we are on 2009 with pre-compiled Kdenlive 0.7.1 package.
For who wants to know what is changed here is release notes.
Instructions:

  • Install (only for Ubuntu 8.04) KDE 4.1 libraries in your Ubuntu: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1.2
  • Unpack zip file to your favourite directory
  • Open in an text editor the file: <dir>/bin/kdenlive_start
  • Modify the line:
    export INSTALL_DIR=/home/marco/kdenlive
    according to the location where you unpacked the package
  • Run the file: <dir>/bin/kdenlive_start
  • Enjoy!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD KDENLIVE 0.7.1 PRECOMPILED ZIP PACKAGE – 25.20 MB

Information about revisions of modules at the time of compilation:
ffmpeg: Revision: 16404 Last Changed Date: 2008-12-31 03:47:54 +0100 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008)
mlt: Revision: 1302 Last Changed Date: 2008-12-31 05:55:59 +0100 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008)
mlt++: Revision: 1302 Last Changed Date: 2008-12-29 00:35:06 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008)
kdenlive: Revision: 2861 Last Changed Date: 2008-12-30 22:21:59 +0100 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008)
uname -a at time of compilation:
Linux t61-marco 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Information about cc at the time of compilation:
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v –enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang –prefix=/usr –enable-shared –with-system-zlib –libexecdir=/usr/lib –without-included-gettext –enable-threads=posix –enable-nls –with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2 –program-suffix=-4.2 –enable-clocale=gnu –enable-libstdcxx-debug –enable-objc-gc –enable-mpfr –enable-targets=all –enable-checking=release –build=i486-linux-gnu –host=i486-linux-gnu –target=i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
/usr/bin/dpkg
Found dpkg – running dpkg -l to grep libc6
ii libc6 2.7-10ubuntu4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libc6-dev 2.7-10ubuntu4 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
ii libc6-i686 2.7-10ubuntu4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi
Information about kde 4 at the time of compilation:
Qt: 4.4.1
KDE: 4.1.2 (KDE 4.1.2)
kde4-config: 1.0

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