[Şerban S.]

10 new fails on a new laptop...

Yesterday I wanted to upgrade my wife's laptop from LL 6.6 to LL 8.0. The result was highly frustrating, to say the least!

Here are the specs:

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System:
  Kernel: 6.8.0-124-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1
  Distro: Linux Lite 7.8 LTS
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 83KB v: IdeaPad Slim 3 16AHP10
  serial: <filter>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: NO DPK serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO
  v: QACN22WW date: 03/18/2025
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
  bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 8192 KiB
  Speed: 1932 MHz min/max: 400/5132 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1932 2: 400
  3: 4828 4: 400 5: 1946 6: 400 7: 4814 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400
  12: 400 13: 1875 14: 400 15: 400 16: 400
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Phoenix3 driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 21.1.11 driver: amdgpu,ati
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (radeonsi phoenix LLVM 20.1.2
  DRM 3.57 6.8.0-124-generic)
  v: 4.6 Mesa 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor driver: snd_pci_ps
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k6.8.0-124-generic
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK driver: N/A
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8192EU 802.11b/g/n WLAN Adapter type: USB
  driver: rtl8xxxu
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 534.67 GiB used: 63.74 GiB (11.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital
  model: WD PC SN5000S SDEPMSJ-512G-1101 size: 476.94 GiB
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
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After failing 10 times with the LL 8.0 installation (all attempts failed due to Calamares PM which refused to recognize the /dev/sda1 partition) I chose the hard way: to install LL 7.8 and perform Lite Series Upgrade.

Lite Series Upgrade., worked seamlessly, but when it came to reboot, trouble started to surface:

Bugs found so far:

-The "Reboot" sequence, gave me a black screen. Both keyboards (laptop and exernal) went unusable;
-Machine was still running and I had to use the Power button to stop it and reboot;
-After finally booting into LL 8.0, another bug surfaced: the Authentication window triggered by Apps, rejected the password. In order to  start/install something, I had to use CLI. This worked.
-LuckyBackup, Bleachbit, DoubleCommander in Root mode could be started only via CLI.
-Shutdown and Restart could be performed only from Power button.
-Weird! The only App that gets the data from the Authentication window, is Synaptic Package Panager!

Conclusion, so far:
On the AMD platform, it seems that besides the Calamares PM, there are many other issues that look like being triggered by the AMD GPU.

What is very difficult to swallow though, is the fact that LL 7.8 installs great and runs great on the very same machine, without any slight change in hardware configuration, while Calamares PM fails systematically!

From the software perspective, I used the same combination as ever: GParted to edit /dev/sda1 and the LL 7.8 ISO for installation.
Now, comparing the two installations, on Dell Precision T1700 (Intel based) with the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 Slim (AMD based) becomes very clear to me that Calamares PM has serious bugs related to video drivers and it also looks like nothing is related to Linux Lite build.
Further more, it seems that the upstream Ubuntu has more bugs than only the Calamares PM.

In the end, I hope that people who have similar hardware configurations, will profit from this info and make the best decisions regarding what Linux Lite version (7.8 or 8.0) would be more appropriate to use.

Best regards!

[ohjrson2]

I have had a similar issue.

Except when it was installing for the whole drive the installation was fine until about 66% in, an error came up saying that it could not find or open casper....Now my computer will not boot from anything. Not 7.0, 7.4, 7.8, nor 8.0. Heck now it won't even boot from an USB drive. I can see the drives there but it will not boot.

gave me a message about failing to fork off sandboxing environment for executing generators. 
!!!!!! failed to start up manager 
system[1]: Freezing execution.
Please let me know what you need so I can try to get that information to you.
Thanks

[valtam]

Please start your own threads for any issues, thank you.

[valtam]

Yesterday I wanted to upgrade my wife's laptop from LL 6.6 to LL 8.0. The result was highly frustrating, to say the least!

Here are the specs:

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System:
  Kernel: 6.8.0-124-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1
  Distro: Linux Lite 7.8 LTS

This is confusing. How exactly, in order, did you perform any upgrades?

@Serban S. there is no Series 6 to Series 8 upgrade path, only 7.8 - 8.0 via Lite Series Upgrade. Only issues specific to that path will be investigated. Thank you.