Hi Sebastien. While rebooting to have a clear journalctl output to send you, the updates work and I found why.
Battery has to be 100% charged. While still on power, reboot the machine, do the upgrade, reboot and finally the BIOS gets upgraded. After last reboot you can remove the power supply. Should this be the correct behavior ? Daniel -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1860761 Title: Dell XPS 13 - Bios upgrade not working - Always ask for power supply Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Each time the notebook starts I'm advised that a new bios upgrade is out: XPS 13 7390 System Update 0.1.3.1 => 0.1.4.0 Problem is that when I ask for update, I always get this message (traduction from french): Not possible to upgrade "XPS 13 7390 System Update": connect power supply. Battery can be full, notebook connected on power supply, doesn't matter, will not upgrade. Daniel Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: ubuntu-software 3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.14 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-1066.76-oem 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-1066-oem x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Jan 24 09:15:31 2020 DistributionChannelDescriptor: # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor canonical-oem-somerville-bionic-amd64-20180608-47+beaver-three-eyed-raven+X92 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-07 (47 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180608-09:38 InstalledPlugins: gnome-software-plugin-flatpak N/A gnome-software-plugin-limba N/A gnome-software-plugin-snap 3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.14 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-software UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1860761/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
