So, after filing this bug report (and being left with only a top menu- bar and no side applications-menu) I rebooted the laptop, and was able to login as the user I created during the setup before it crashed (although there was also still an "OEM" user listed as an option, which I didn't use).
I tried running the Dell Recovery program again to create a recovery USB stick, and it again crashed! So then I installed all the pending updates (which itself needed an 'sudo apt-get install -f' to complete properly), did a reboot, logged in, and again tried running the Dell Recovery program. This time it worked! It "did it's stuff", and then tried writing the recovery image to my 2GB USB drive, but complained it didn't have enough space. Turns out that my 2GB USB flash drive was only 1.9GB, but the recovery image needed 2.1GB of space. (I've got no idea if this was the reason for the original crash?) So then I found up a 16GB USB flash drive and installed the recovery image to that instead. All worked fine. Then I used the Dell Recovery program to reset the laptop to the factory state (restored from the recovery partition - worked flawlessly). Rebooted and ran through the initial setup process again, this time choosing *not* to make a recovery USB disk during the setup, and it all worked absolutely fine (the OEM user from the previous attempt no longer existed). And I was able to install all the pending software updates without needing to do 'sudo apt-get install -f'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450490 Title: Initial installer run on Dell XPS13 (9343), crash while creating recovery media To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1450490/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
