back to article 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 …

  1. 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?

    1. LionelB Silver badge

      Shamefully few - but fair point.

    2. Gene Cash Silver badge

      > 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"

    3. Liam Proven (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

      > 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.

      1. 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?

    4. weladenwow

      ethernet to usb for mobile devices

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

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: ethernet to usb for mobile devices

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

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Slowly Getting There

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

  3. 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.

    1. MonkeyJuice Bronze badge

      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).

  4. NATTtrash
    Coffee/keyboard

    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...

    1. Liam Proven (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

      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.

  5. ske1fr
    Windows

    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.

  6. druck Silver badge

    By the time...

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

  7. 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

  8. 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.

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