The BUILD_EXCLSIVE error is because of oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms. I removed it and installed appropriate version for the new kernel using instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS.
Did you upgrade to 15.04 using the Ubuntu do-release-upgrade tool, or did you do a clean installation? I've also tried removing/purging oem-audio-daily-dkms before attempting the release upgrade. The error message relating to the BUILD_EXCLUSIVE flag does go away, but I still see:
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/casper-memdisk failed with return 1.
It fails to correctly generate the new linux image, and I end up with a broken system requiring me to reinstall using the Dell recovery tool. I'm reluctant to try upgrading again until I can be sure that the kernel can be safely updated to 3.19.x.
I'm running Kubuntu 15.04 with kernel 3.19 and I don't need DKMS for audio at all. (And having replaced the Broadcom Wifi card I can now uninstall DKMS completely.)
No, I did a clean install from scratch, I even repartitioned the disk to my liking. Since there is no data to migrate I don't see the point of a release upgrade. And also note that you don't need to retain any Dell drivers or customizations -- stock (K)Ubuntu works just fine (notable exception: wireless driver -- you need to download and install that manually).
If there are some Dell-specific tools maybe you can save them beforehand? (I did this with a Win8 machine, although I'm not quite sure what I should do with those.)
I see. In retrospect I should really have just done a clean install of 15.04 as soon as I received the laptop. Now that I've been using it for a while it would be a pain to have to go through setting up my working environment all over again. For the time being I suppose I'll wait for confirmation that the upgrade procedure will work, or until I get frustrated enough with 14.04 that I decide to wipe everything and start afresh.
Guys - how do I make a clean install? It won't boot an image from the usb drive or the sd card. Made bootable devices with the startup disk creator. Doesn't work.
Oh, actually I do remember which tool I used: dd! :-)
The current Kubuntu image doesn't need any processing at all, you just copy it to /dev/sdX (no partition!) and that's it. It's probably the same for Ubuntu.
You'll have to enter UEFI setup and (a) enable booting from USB and (b) move the USB entry up to the top. Those are two different steps if I remember correctly. You probably want to disable Secure Boot as well (if it's enabled).
Alternatively you could install in legacy aka BIOS mode, as I can't think of any advantages for UEFI. If you do switch to legacy mode be sure to enable USB module support in yet another menu.
BTW, can't remember which tool I used, probably either unetbootin or the Startup Disk Creator from the menu.
For some reason it only posted part of my post. Here's the rest of the information need for upgrade from 14.04 to 15.04.
There is also another error: "E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/casper-memdisk failed with return 1". As far as I can tell you do not need any casper related packages (those are for live disks), I removed them and now my 15.04 works fine (upgraded from 14.04 to 14.10 to 15.04).
The package3s I removed were casper-memdisk, casper, lupin-casper.
You might need to remove some packages that are in broken state (kernel image packages), make sure you reinstall the kernel image that you want to use before rebooting. Yo can use dpkg --force--all --purge brokenPacakge
Thanks zasran! After removing oem-audio-daily-dkms, casper and casper-memdisk (I didn't have lupin-casper installed), the upgrade worked flawlessly for me.
For all others who tried a distro update and broke their system that might end up here, the following worked for me (M3800, probably the same for the XPS13):
Boot into the boot menu (press shift when booting), start from the previous kernel. Then:
alimuldal
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I'm experiencing the same issue. The problem module (containing the BUILD_EXCLUSIVE flag) seems to be oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms.
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The BUILD_EXCLSIVE error is because of oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms. I removed it and installed appropriate version for the new kernel using instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS.
alimuldal
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Did you upgrade to 15.04 using the Ubuntu do-release-upgrade tool, or did you do a clean installation? I've also tried removing/purging oem-audio-daily-dkms before attempting the release upgrade. The error message relating to the BUILD_EXCLUSIVE flag does go away, but I still see:
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/casper-memdisk failed with return 1.
It fails to correctly generate the new linux image, and I end up with a broken system requiring me to reinstall using the Dell recovery tool. I'm reluctant to try upgrading again until I can be sure that the kernel can be safely updated to 3.19.x.
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May 13th, 2015 09:00
I'm running Kubuntu 15.04 with kernel 3.19 and I don't need DKMS for audio at all. (And having replaced the Broadcom Wifi card I can now uninstall DKMS completely.)
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No, I did a clean install from scratch, I even repartitioned the disk to my liking. Since there is no data to migrate I don't see the point of a release upgrade. And also note that you don't need to retain any Dell drivers or customizations -- stock (K)Ubuntu works just fine (notable exception: wireless driver -- you need to download and install that manually).
If there are some Dell-specific tools maybe you can save them beforehand? (I did this with a Win8 machine, although I'm not quite sure what I should do with those.)
alimuldal
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I see. In retrospect I should really have just done a clean install of 15.04 as soon as I received the laptop. Now that I've been using it for a while it would be a pain to have to go through setting up my working environment all over again. For the time being I suppose I'll wait for confirmation that the upgrade procedure will work, or until I get frustrated enough with 14.04 that I decide to wipe everything and start afresh.
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I can't even ... what?
Guys - how do I make a clean install? It won't boot an image from the usb drive or the sd card. Made bootable devices with the startup disk creator. Doesn't work.
ralph.b
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Oh, actually I do remember which tool I used: dd! :-)
The current Kubuntu image doesn't need any processing at all, you just copy it to /dev/sdX (no partition!) and that's it. It's probably the same for Ubuntu.
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May 13th, 2015 13:00
Sure it will. :-)
You'll have to enter UEFI setup and (a) enable booting from USB and (b) move the USB entry up to the top. Those are two different steps if I remember correctly. You probably want to disable Secure Boot as well (if it's enabled).
Alternatively you could install in legacy aka BIOS mode, as I can't think of any advantages for UEFI. If you do switch to legacy mode be sure to enable USB module support in yet another menu.
BTW, can't remember which tool I used, probably either unetbootin or the Startup Disk Creator from the menu.
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May 13th, 2015 15:00
For some reason it only posted part of my post. Here's the rest of the information need for upgrade from 14.04 to 15.04.
There is also another error: "E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/casper-memdisk failed with return 1". As far as I can tell you do not need any casper related packages (those are for live disks), I removed them and now my 15.04 works fine (upgraded from 14.04 to 14.10 to 15.04).
The package3s I removed were casper-memdisk, casper, lupin-casper.
You might need to remove some packages that are in broken state (kernel image packages), make sure you reinstall the kernel image that you want to use before rebooting. Yo can use dpkg --force--all --purge brokenPacakge
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Thanks zasran! After removing oem-audio-daily-dkms, casper and casper-memdisk (I didn't have lupin-casper installed), the upgrade worked flawlessly for me.
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June 13th, 2015 03:00
For all others who tried a distro update and broke their system that might end up here, the following worked for me (M3800, probably the same for the XPS13):
Boot into the boot menu (press shift when booting), start from the previous kernel. Then:
sudo dpkg -P oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms
sudo dpkg -P casper-memdisk
sudo apt-get install -f linux-image-3.19.0-20-generic
sudo update-grub