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** Success!!!
** Success!!!
** This was a recent install with not so many applications before the upgrade.
** This was a recent install with not so many applications before the upgrade.
* Roman Gilg
** 2018-09-19
** Neon Dev Unstable
** UEFI
** Secure Boot disabled
** Problems but upgrade was possible
** neon-preview-upgrade was not found. Had to install the respective package distro-release-notifier manually. That's because neon-desktop was missing (this conflicted on my system with xserver-xorg-*-hwe-16.04 packages, which I could replace with xserver-xorg-* packages, then neon-desktop could be installed again). Afterwards the upgrade went smoothly. Minor: In the upgrader tool I later on opened the terminal output but I couldn't get the output window to follow the output (i.e. scroll down with new lines of output).

Revision as of 12:26, 19 September 2018

Please add your test results:

  • Name
    • Date
    • What edition of KDE Neon did you have installed?
    • Is your computer booting with BIOS or UEFI?
    • Is secureboot enabled?
    • Success or problems?
    • Comments
  • Boudewijn Rempt
    • 19-06-2018
    • KDE neon 15.12
    • UEFI
    • Yes
    • Success
    • No Problems
  • Kenny D
    • 19-06-2018
    • KDE neon User
    • UEFI
    • No
    • Partial Success
    • Bionic it seems deprecated encrypted homes so you won't be able to login graphically after upgrading, installing encryptfs-utils semi fixes this however it is apparently not very reliable now
    • 27-06-27: not found any issues with encrypted home yet everything seems to be working ok so far
    • 29-06-2018: now noticed this error in dmesg on each boot, still seems to mount home ok though, anyone else seeing this?
      • [ 33.378048] Could not find key with description: [01521d6d47952845]
      • [ 33.378067] process_request_key_err: No key
      • [ 33.378068] Could not find valid key in user session keyring for sig specified in mount option: [01521d6d47952845]
      • [ 33.378089] One or more global auth toks could not properly register; rc = [-2]
      • [ 33.378089] Error parsing options; rc = [-2]
    • 28-06-2018: also just to note that release is currently broken, so if you haven't updated since yesterday you might want to avoid doing so for a bit
    • 29-06-2018: bionic usable again
    • 25-07-2018: switched over from release to user with no problems
  • Clay Weber
    • 25-6-2018
    • KDE Neon User
    • UEFI
    • Secure boot: NO
    • Upgrade installed successfully
    • Same problem as Kenny D above - I have an encrypted /home- Could not login to desktop, installing ecrypts-utils fixed the issue. No other issues found
  • Louis Weddall
    • 2018-06-25
    • KDE Neon User Edition 5.13
    • UEFI
    • No
    • Upgrade installed successfully
    • Xenial repositories are disabled, yet still listed in Discover, which could cause some confusion.
  • René Fritz
    • 2018-06-28
    • KDE Neon Developer Stable Edition
    • Bios
    • No
    • Upgrade installed successfully
    • no problems, except that in /etc/lsb-release is DISTRIB_ID=neon (again) instead of DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu which breaks adding a ppa with add-apt-repository
  • Jakeir
    • 2018-06-28
    • Neon User Edition - KDE 5.13.1
    • UEFI
    • YES
    • Upgrade successful
    • updating packages after upgrade caused the same issues as seen by Kenny D with encryptfs-util and 'Could not find a valid key in user session keyring for sig specified in mount option' - Currently unusable.
      • 2018-07-01 - completed another apt upgrade and reboot previous issues all resolved.
  • Lukas N
    • 2018-06-30
    • Neon User Edition
    • UEFI
    • No
    • Upgrade successful
    • btrfs-progs (formerly btrfs-tools?) was not installed.
  • Kostiantyn Rybnikov
    • 2018-07-05
    • Neon User Edition
    • BIOS
    • Secureboot not enabled
    • Problems
    • After upgrade finished and asked me to reboot I am seeing "Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation" and nothing works. Photo: https:// photos.app.goo.gl/nw9G7iUeBEjx6BQg9
  • Thibaut FRANCOIS
    • 2018-07-07
    • Neon User Edition
    • UEFI
    • Secureboot not enabled
    • Problems
      • In the boot's beginning, I had the message "error, no symbol table". Fixed : I rebuilded grub on /etc/sdb and not /etc/sda, sda is my windows partition
      • Like René, in /etc/lsb-release is DISTRIB_ID=neon (again) instead of DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu which breaks adding a ppa with add-apt-repository
      • After upgrade and the reboot I am seeing "Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation". Fixed: I purged the nvidia driver with apt (sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*) , and install nvidia-390 (sudo apt install nvidia-390) from oibaf/graphics-drivers/ppa (maybe the repository "graphics-drivers" would be sufficient, I don't know)
      • Firefox and chromium didn't launch : "libwayland-egl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory." Fixed: with "sudo apt-get install libwayland-egl1" (this library replace the libwayland-egl1-mesa)
  • David B
    • 2018-07-16
    • KDE Neon User Edition 5.13
    • BIOS
    • No secure boot
    • Successfully upgraded without issues
    • Comments
      • After upgrade system appears to be running KDE Neon Developers Edition
  • Brian W
    • 7/20/2018
    • Fresh install of Neon LTS 5.12 (on Virtualbox guest)
    • BIOS
    • No secure boot
    • Successfully upgraded; no errors.
    • Comments
      • DISTRIB_ID in /etc/lsb-release is set for "neon". KDE Neon Developers Edition was installed instead of the LTS.
  • Kenny D 2
    • 2018-07-25
    • KDE Neon User Edition 5.13
    • BIOS
    • No secure boot
    • Successfully upgraded without issues, encrypted home still worked after upgrade
  • Kenny D 3
    • 2018-07-25
    • KDE Neon User Edition 5.13
    • BIOS
    • No secure boot
    • Successfully upgraded without issues
  • XYQuadrat
    • 2018-07-28
    • KDE Neon Developer Edition
    • BIOS
    • No secure boot
    • Success, needed to re-enable the neon PPA's and edit /etc/lsb-release to resolve dependency issues - that's it
    • Thanks for your hard work :)
  • Kenny D 4
    • 2018-07-29
    • KDE Neon User Edition 5.13
    • UEFI
    • Insecure boot
    • Couldn't login after upgrade due to missing ecryptfs-utils, has something changed in the last few days?
  • Ivan Safonov
    • 2018-08-04
    • bionic-early-access 20180804-0922-amd64.iso
    • UEFI
    • secureboot is disabled
    • Touchpad is not working, external mouse cursor moving too slow
    • Laptop Dell Latitude 7490. Fixed by removing /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/41-evdev.conf link from neon-settings package.
  • Lengau
    • Date: 2018-08-18
    • What edition of KDE Neon did you have installed? KDE neon User Edition 5.13
    • Is your computer booting with BIOS or UEFI? UEFI
    • Is secureboot enabled? No
    • Success or problems? [Desktop computer] Had to manually fix Nvidia drivers due to using ~graphics-drivers PPA. Everything else seems to be functional so far.
    • Comments
  • Ryan R
    • 2018-08-21
    • Installed an August version of 16.04 NEON User edition
    • computer booting with UEFI
    • Is secureboot enabled? Don't think so
    • Success with problems
    • Nvidia driver installed from PPA didn't work on boot, manually reinstalled, everything else seems to work. bootsplash no longer appears but this is a minor issue.
  • Martin S.
    • 2018-08-04
    • KDE neon User Edition 5.13
      • installed Kubuntu 14.04
      • upgraded to Kubuntu 16.04
      • upgraded to KDE neon User Edition 16.04 (by adding the neon.list file)
    • BIOS
    • No secureboot enabled
    • Success (after some fixes)
    • Comments:
      • I did not have neon-desktop installed, so the neon bionic upgrade notification did not appear after changing /etc/update-manager/meta-release.
        • Solution: install neon-desktop and restart the upgrade.
      • I did have some changes in the neon.list file, so the upgrade was not able to change the file correctly.
        • Solution: Revert the neon.list file to the xenial iso version and restart the upgrade.
      • I had problems with the screen lock after leaving the upgrade running unattended for a while. I could not log in anymore to finish the upgrade (the screen stays blank).
        • Solution: run "loginctl unlock-sessions" from a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), switch back (Ctrl-Alt-F7) and finish the upgrade.


  • Clay Weber
    • 5-9-2018
    • KDE Neon User
    • UEFI
    • Secure boot: NO
    • Upgrade installed successfully
    • Same problem as Kenny D above (again!) - I have an encrypted /home Could not login to desktop, installing ecrypts-utils fixed the issue. No other issues found, again.
  • Jason P
    • 2018-09-06
    • What edition of KDE Neon did you have installed? KDE Neon User
    • Is your computer booting with BIOS or UEFI? BIOS
    • Is secureboot enabled? No
    • Success or problems? Success eventually (I think)
    • Comments

I had many packages/ppa's installed that were blocking the upgrade. I ended up blindly uninstalling things and getting back to almost stock before the upgrade finally started. Towards the end of the upgrade i got the error 2018-09-07 07:44:12,311 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'python3-distupgrade': 'installed python3-distupgrade package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1' the subsequent dpkg-reconfigure -a that the installer said it would do appeared to fixed it though. I needed to run an apt autoremove to remove all the old packages

  • Charles (VINNY) Wright
    • 9-6-2018
    • Neon-LTS
    • BIOS
    • no Secure boot
    • Successful and as expected
    • I had no worry's , the Neon-LTS is in a BTRFS file system so snapshot @ and @home and I have a restore point .

it took 6 hours and 2006 upgrades .

  • Charles (VINNY) Wright
    • 9-11-2018
    • Neon-user
    • BIOS
    • no secure boot
    • Successful and as expected
    • this one was on an old Acer aspire-V5-431 duel core pentium CPU @1.30GHz 4GB RAM and works vary well .

using less than 1GB RAM even when watching full screen youtube vid. :) same as above with the file system BTRFS

  • Denis Karpovskii
    • 12-09-2018
    • Neon User Edition
    • UEFI
    • Secure Boot disabled
    • Success, no problems (this time)
    • This is the second time I upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04. When I was upgrading the first time (a week before) I have clicked "Cancel" when the installation program warned me that installation can take a long time. After that Discover started to crash on every launch. Reboot solved the problem (needed to start "neon-preview-upgrade" again). Secure boot is disabled because I install latest unsigned mainline kernel to get my touchpad and LAN working (Lenovo Ideapad 330). No problems with it besides that.
  • Martin Moen
    • 2018-09-12
    • Neon User Edition
    • UEFI
    • Secure Boot disabled
    • Mounting of drives in Plasma is still affected by kde bug no. 370975 (see bugs.kde.org for details). Otherwise, everything appears to be running very smoothly.
  • Marcus Larborg
    • 2018-09-15
    • Neon User Edition
    • UEFI
    • Secure boot disabled
    • Success!!!
    • This was a recent install with not so many applications before the upgrade.
  • Roman Gilg
    • 2018-09-19
    • Neon Dev Unstable
    • UEFI
    • Secure Boot disabled
    • Problems but upgrade was possible
    • neon-preview-upgrade was not found. Had to install the respective package distro-release-notifier manually. That's because neon-desktop was missing (this conflicted on my system with xserver-xorg-*-hwe-16.04 packages, which I could replace with xserver-xorg-* packages, then neon-desktop could be installed again). Afterwards the upgrade went smoothly. Minor: In the upgrader tool I later on opened the terminal output but I couldn't get the output window to follow the output (i.e. scroll down with new lines of output).
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