{"id":363,"date":"2010-10-01T11:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=363"},"modified":"2010-10-01T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:03:27","slug":"upgrading-ubuntu-sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2010\/10\/01\/upgrading-ubuntu-sigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading Ubuntu (sigh)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to upgrading my desktop from Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04.<\/p>\n

First of all, the bluetooth connection to my wireless Logitech keyboard broke. It’s always the first thing to break, so I did what I’ve done in the past: I repeated the “set up a new bluetooth device” steps about 30 times in a row, with minor variations, until it finally registered correctly. I may have rebooted once or twice along the way, I can’t remember now.<\/p>\n

Second, my wired connection has been flaky, sometimes working and sometimes not.\u00a0 (Wireless has been fine, however.)\u00a0 Rebooting had fixed the problem until today. Eventually I found this thread<\/a> which told me that I needed to not just reboot, but hard reboot<\/em>: turn off my machine and disconnect it from all power sources for several minutes.\u00a0 Apparently this causes the network card’s firmware to be reloaded.\u00a0 Miraculously enough, this worked.\u00a0 Fingers crossed it’ll continue to work next time I reboot or restart.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the machine’s speaker still doesn’t beep when someone pings me in Chatzilla.\u00a0 That stopped working when I upgraded to 9.10.\u00a0 Actually, the machine’s speaker stopped working at all after that upgrade, so I investigated and modified some config file so that it worked again with the ‘beep’ command, but it still didn’t work in Chatzilla.\u00a0 It’s the one time when I’d like any kind of sound to work in Linux (I can use my Mac laptop for watching videos and all that stuff).<\/p>\n

Having used Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 and now 10.04, I’m glad 10.04 is an LTS release.\u00a0 It’ll be good not having to go through these steps every 6 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to upgrading my desktop from Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04. First of all, the bluetooth connection to my wireless Logitech keyboard broke. It’s always the first thing to break, so I did what I’ve done in the past: I repeated the “set up a new bluetooth device” steps about 30 times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4542],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}