Comment 3 for bug 1550944

Christopher,

Absolute nightmare. I used my dual boot setup to access Windows 8 and
update the BIOS and then had huge problems accessing Ubuntu, finally
using boot-repair since the BIOS upgrade had deleted the boot menu.
And after all that it has made absolutely no difference to the double
log in problem.

regards
Tony Morton

On 02/03/16 02:02, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> Tony Morton, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu
> better.
>
> As per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product
> /inspiron-660s/drivers?os=biosa an update to your computer's buggy,
> insecure, and outdated BIOS is available (A11). If you update to this
> following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change
> anything?
>
> For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
> .
>
> Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
> posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful.
>
> Also, you don't have to create a new bug report.
>
> Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible:
> 1) Please provide the output of the following terminal command (not perform an apport-collect):
> sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
> 2) Please make a comment specifically advising on if there was an improvement or not.
> 3) Please mark this report Status New.
>
> If it's not reproducible, please mark this as Invalid.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> ** Tags added: bios-outdated-a11
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>