"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?
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 …
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.
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.
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