These release notes document known issues with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and version 8.04 of Kubuntu and Xubuntu.
System RequirementsThe minimum memory requirement for Ubuntu 8.04 is 384MB of memory for desktop CDs, and 256MB for other installation methods. (Note that some of your system's memory may be unavailable due to being used for the graphics card.)
With only the minimum amount of memory available, the installation process will take longer than normal, but will complete successfully, and the system will perform adequately once installed. Low-memory systems may be able to use the desktop CD to install by selecting "Install Ubuntu" from the boot menu to run just the installer, rather than the whole desktop started by selecting "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer".
Installation OpenOffice.org database, Java, equation editor supportFor reasons of disk space, the database and equation editor components of OpenOffice.org, as well as Java integration support, are not included on the installation CDs. To get the full OpenOffice.org suite after install, you can select "OpenOffice.org Office Suite" from the Applications -> Add/Remove menu, or install the openoffice.org metapackage using the package manager.
Users of Ubuntu 7.10 or Ubuntu 6.06 LTS can upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 by a convenient automated process. Users of other Ubuntu releases should upgrade step by step (e.g. 6.10 -> 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04 LTS). Complete instructions may be found at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading.
Route metricsifupdown now sets the default route metric to 100 for interfaces with no metric option set in /etc/network/interfaces. This change makes no difference for most users, but may affect a few users with complex networking requirements. If you rely on the previous default route metric of 0 (zero), edit /etc/network/interfaces and set the metric option explicitly for your interface, for example:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.2
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
metric 0In Ubuntu 8.04, network-manager only manages interfaces that are marked for roaming. Thus, all interfaces that were previously managed by network-manager will be set to roaming mode during upgrade. Technically, this takes any interface stanzas using the dhcp method with no options and that are marked auto, and removes them from /etc/network/interfaces. If you rely on your interfaces being started by ifupdown when the system starts up, you need to re-enable them in /etc/network/interfaces manually, or disable roaming in System -> Administration -> Network.
To mount NFS filesystems, you must now install the nfs-common package.
To improve overall system performance, the /bin/sh shell in Ubuntu 6.10 and later is dash, rather than bash as it was in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. This may cause compatibility problems for local shell scripts. Please see DashAsBinSh for more information.
The PowerPC and SPARC architectures no longer receive commercial support from Canonical for new releases of Ubuntu (PowerPC as of 7.04, SPARC as of 8.04), and accordingly these architectures have been moved to ports.ubuntu.com. Users of these architectures should take care to update /etc/apt/sources.list. Old sources.list entries looked like this (perhaps using <country>.archive.ubuntu.com rather than archive.ubuntu.com):
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
while new entries should look like this:
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports hardy main restricted deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports hardy-security main restricted
The "commercial" repository on archive.canonical.com has been renamed to "partner". If you upgrade directly from an earlier release to Ubuntu 8.04 using the documented upgrade procedure, then this will be handled automatically. However, if you upgraded manually, you will need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list by hand. The correct syntax is:
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
The default Shift+Space hotkey for the Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) has been removed, and Alt+` (grave accent) has been added in its place. As before, other default hotkeys are Control+Space, Zenkaku_Hankaku, and Hangul. Hotkeys can be configured using the FrontEnd -> Global Setup section in SCIM Setup.
Since 7.10, EVMS support was dropped by upstream and moved to Universe in Ubuntu. Users from previous LTS Release should be aware of this issue and act accordingly as suggested at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Evms and https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/115616. The common solution is to remove evms from console.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS fails to run on some DELL PowerEdge servers with RAID controllers, such as the 3/Di controller in the DELL PowerEdge 1650, due to a bug in the RAID firmware. To install or upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on a system with the affected RAID controller, you will first need to upgrade your RAID firmware.
Support for dual screen is in many cases more limited for Kubuntu 8.04 than for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. The Xinerama extension to X windows that was used in previous releases for dual screen support has largely been replaced by Xrandr. Updated KDE3 tools to support Xrandr are not available. Limited Xrandr support is available in KDE4. For most video drivers, dual screen can be set up only via the 'xrandr' command line tool and/or manual xorg.conf settings. See man xrandr for information on xrandr command line options. Additional information on X configuration can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config.
- The binary drivers (-nvidia and -fglrx) may still support Xinerama, but they have their own multi-screen setup tools that should be used in preference to System Settings -> Display and Monitor (displayconfig)
Some users report problems with video playback in the GNOME movie player, and audio playback in other applications, due to an error when connecting to the PulseAudio sound server. Investigation of this possibly hardware-specific issue is ongoing. A workaround is to enter the System -> Preferences -> Sound dialog and change the Music and Movies sound playback option from 'Autodetect' to 'ALSA'.
When "complex character input" is enabled, either by hand using the language-selector tool or as a result of using a CJK locale, fontforge does not respond to the keyboard. It is believed that this is a bug in fontforge, not related to SCIM. As a workaround, you can run fontforge from a terminal using the command unset XMODIFIERS; fontforge.
HardyReleaseNotes (last edited 2010-01-28 06:51:08 by minbar)
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