It's some time I don't upgrade my desktop
computer, I must reckon I enjoyed the relative stability of using a
LTS
distribution and didn't fell the need of a twice-a-year system
upgrade. Unfortunately my PC suffered of a system crash, probably
because of some faulty hardware, just while updating with the result
of corrupting the installed operating system beyond my capability of
repairing it.
I so downloaded latest Ubuntu
distribution release and started the good-old installation procedure.
No
more Ubuntu-gnome long live to Ubuntu (Gnome)
I’ve been a Ubuntu-Gnome
user for a long time, so I’ve been quite pleased to learn
Canonical decided to stop
Unity support and adopt Gnome-Shell as primary desktop manager. I so
went for downloading latest Ubuntu ISO image. Once finished I
prepared a bootable USB disk using Unetbootin
tool, then I restarted my PC.
Installation
I started my computer from USB disk then selected
the “Try Ubuntu ...” option instead of starting directly the
installation program in order to collect screen-shots more easily.
After usual language and “third party” option
selection I came to the installation type selection where I choose to
upgrade my 16.04 installation.
at last installation process started.
Post installation setup
The installation type I selected should keep most
of previously installed applications. In reality at my first access
to the newly installed system I found most of applications I used
missing. I installed some but I’m not in a hurry of installing them
all since I often have my PC filled with programs I use once then I
forget.
Just after install Ubuntu 17.10 comes with
Gnome-shell configured to look like the (now old) Unity: with a
left-sided dock and the upper-left “hot corner” disabled. I so
installed gnome-tweak
application to enable hot corner and also hide trashcan and drive
icons from desktop. At last I visited gnome extensions page where I
updated shell extension I usually use.
Mounting Samba shares
It seems every time I upgrade my computer the
parameters needed to mount my NAS Samba shares changes in something.
This time has been no exception. Just after the system has been
installed I edited configuration file “/etc/fstab” adding the
couple of configuration lines I used before (and still are working on
other machines). As I tried mounting them using
Sudo mount -a
I got an odd “Host is
down” error. After some searching I
learned
that, because of some Microsoft's protocol update, a new “version”
parameter has been added. Since my NAS is quite old I has to set this
parameter to “1.0”.
Here is my updated configuration:
# NAS Public share//192.168.0.110/public /media/public cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,sec=ntlm,vers=1.0 0 0
# NAS Maxx share//192.168.0.110/sh_maxx /media/nas cifs uid=1000,credentials=/home/maxx/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,vers=1.0 0 0
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