Danny's Space

I ran the graphical upgrade tool hoping to do a smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04.1 but when I restart as instructed NO JOY. I was running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS happily when the upgrade tool notified me of the availability of the next LTS for download and installation. So I did a search for any caveats. I found a thread in Reddit but it was 4 months ago. The thread revealed that any kind of online upgrade to 24.04 results in failure. Clean installs are another matter though. The new version is ready for a clean install. The process of upgrading direct from an 22.04.4 or 23.10 isn't . I should have waited. I was happy with 22.04 LTS. Regrets. I can't boot. The computer stops booting with my ASUS motherboard dashboard. And all system hard ware is fine as reported by the motherboard. I lost all the screenshots I have of the upgrade from downloads to the last instruction to restart.

LTS to LTS upgrade happens when Canonical releases the first point update of the new LTS which is 24.04.1. That is suppose to happen on the 19th of August. A new update on the release date says it is going to happen on the 29th. So the developers moved it two weeks. I guess there are bugs to smoothen out.

I am using the new pool for my videos and music. Downloading them using my torrent client, transmission. The old pool is raidz2 and now I am using a raidz1 only. But and a big but I gained space of up to 4.5 TB.

I ordered these pair of chassis cooling fans from a seller in Lazada. One fan died and the other one is in the verge of giving up. It has been serving me for 8 years now. I think I need new ones.

A supposedly straightforward process and I messed up. Take the problem hard drive offline with: $ zpool offline poolname devicename Remove the old hard drive out. Put in the new shiny one in. Then type: $ zpool online poolname devicename (if needed) My system was set up to auto detect new devices and add them to the pool. Big mistake. That ADDED the device as a new top level virtual device. Leaving my pool still degraded. Worse, this process is irreversible. I had to destroy the pool and start creating a new one for data. Data stored here is mostly downloadable so data is not lost. Lesson is do not ADD devices the command to use is REPLACE. $ zpool replace poolname olddevicename newdevicename