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Dell Inspirion N5010 update to 12.04 broken

Asked by Joshua Sillers

After having been gone for a few weeks I came home and tried to update my Dell laptop running Ubuntu 11.x to the new 12.04

During the upgrade it listed several items that would be uninstalled and none of it seemed to critical but upon reboot the system no longer sees the touchpad and most of the OS is not responding. Icons no longer populate and desktop colors/resolutions are not clear.

Any ideas on how to backout to v 11 without a reinstall?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Which release did you upgrade from? 11.04 or 11.10?

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Joshua Sillers (sillers) said : 		#2

I don't remember but I think it was 11.10

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Spider Tara (spideryada) said : 		#3

Back up Home directory, do a clean install, copy files from the hidden directories that you need to restore and paste them into the proper directories, i.e., .mozilla and .shotwell

Upgrades can bring glitches from your previous version forward. A clean install is always best.

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Joshua Sillers (sillers) said : 		#4

Done and Done. But I gotta say, the fresh 12.04 is not performing as well as the 11.x did.

thanks for the help.

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Barry Drake (b-drake) said : 		#5

In what way? For most of us it's better and cleaner. Faster too.

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Joshua Sillers (sillers) said : 		#6

It's my trackpad and camera. They are slow and sometimes non-responsive. I also installed Anyconnect and twice I've had it tell me there is another instance running but I don't see it in other workspaces. My only resolution is to re-boot.