dell-recovery dbus python error

Question

I've got a new dell xps13 (delivered 3 days ago) and want to create a recovery disk. The tool dell-recovery fails with this traceback: scip@nubic: % dell-recovery ERROR:dbus.connection:Unable to set arguments (None, b'/dev/sda3', 'A00', '/home/scip/Downloads/ubuntu-14.04-amd64-dell_A00.iso') according to signature 'ssss': : Expected a string or unicode object Traceback (most recent call last): File '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Dell/recovery_basic_gtk.py', line 180, in wizard_complete *args) File '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Dell/recovery_common.py', line 734, in dbus_sync_call_signal_wrapper dbus_iface.get_dbus_method(func)(*args, **kwargs) File '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py', line 137, in __call__ **keywords) File '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py', line 584, in call_async message.append(signature=signature, *args) TypeError: Expected a string or unicode object Is there a fix for this error available or another method to create the image (commandline)? Thanks

mimeo · Answer

try reading this post: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19629675

(the one posted by andreyiv on 29 Apr 2015 10:23 AM)

So it seems you'd have to "recover back to original image" from the hard drive using the Dell recovery tool.

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