Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands

Ubuntu 24.04.1 is here, which means that users of the previous LTS release, 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish," will be offered the update. The first point release for "Noble Numbat" came out on Friday, and users of the preceding stable release of Ubuntu will at long last get the chance to upgrade their OS after a two-week delay. (Those …

[nightflame2]

"we'd advise using a wired Ethernet connection for the upgrade, rather than wireless"

The 00s called and want their tech support back.

How many laptops have an ethernet connection these days?

[LionelB]

Shamefully few - but fair point.

[Gene Cash]

> How many laptops have an ethernet connection these days?

Unfortunately, he's right... not much different from "how many phones have a 3.5mm jack these days?"

And the answer would be "my laptop, because I won't buy one without it"

[Liam Proven]

> How many laptops have an ethernet connection these days?

I do have one that needs an external dongle for RJ45, and while I have the dongle, it doesn't work.

So I use a £5 second-hand USB-to-Ethernet adaptor. Very handy. Useful bit of kit to keep around.

[PerlyKing]

Re: needs an external dongle for RJ45

Not a ThinkPad by any chance?

Serious question: why have a specific port and dongle instead of adding a USB port? Is it just a money grab or is it some obscure but standard miniature network port?

[weladenwow]

ethernet to usb for mobile devices

ethernet to usb for mobile devices search duckduckgo or other srch engine

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: ethernet to usb for mobile devices

Maybe I should get an external CD drive while I am there :-)

[Anonymous Coward]

Slowly Getting There

All these problems, a mal-design (GRUB2), workarounds, and a release. MS-Windows emulation?

[GBE]

Good riddance to os-prober

A significant change catching some upgraders off guard is that recent Ubuntu versions don't add other OSes to their GRUB menu.

Hallelujah!

I've always disabled os-prober as one of my first tasks after an install. It wasted a lot of time during upgrades and when GRUB config was changed. If/when I do have other distros on a machine I've got far better ways to boot them (the GRUB os-probed menu entries rarely worked), and all of the Ubuntu boot menu clutter was annoying at best and confusing at worst.

[MonkeyJuice]

Re: Good riddance to os-prober

Besides, if you try and dual boot a Bitlocker Windows install with TPM hardware, you're going to have a Good Time (tm).

[NATTtrash]

About time...

Canonical says that it's time to update your desktop...

Yeah, true. Was planning to snap into action this week and download the Wilma ISO...

[Liam Proven]

Re: About time...

> Yeah, true. Was planning to snap into action this week and download the Wilma ISO...

:-D I see what you did there.

[ske1fr]

Just wipe and install

I tried the update option, it coughed and failed to complete, but at least it didn't kill the existing 22.04 install. Best to back up your files and pull the chain on the old install. I'm noticing some odd behaviour in YouTube on Firefox, it coughs and freezes playback after about ten seconds, then continues after a second or so. And it refused to run Bitwig, but as I couldn't get that to work without killing everything else in 22.04, I consider that permanently deprecated. This is in Ubuntu Studio.

[druck]

By the time...

...there's a version of Mint based on 24.04, they'll have worked out all the problems.

[Yorick]

Upgrade disabled for now

There’s a critical issue with how do-release-upgrade uses apt solver, which likely explains most if not all of the upgrade glitches.

The upgrade has been disabled until that’s been fixed.

Reference: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2024-September/006225.html

[richdin]

Fools rush in... and get the best seats

I threw caution to the wind, and upgraded my Thinkpad E14... with nary a scratch. Seems to have upgraded from 22.04 without an issue.