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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Vlada Macek, as per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/latitude-e6530/drivers an update to your BIOS is available (A16). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?  If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

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. As well, you don't
have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, then please mark this report Status Confirmed.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-a16

** Attachment removed: "apport.linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic.vvsmpm6b.apport"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1397321/+attachment/4270131/+files/apport.linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic.vvsmpm6b.apport

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
  All images beyond 3.13.0-34-generic don't boot

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The linux-image-3.13.0-34-generic is the last kernel that (months ago)
  smoothly booted my Dell Latitude E6530 laptop with LUKS encrypted SSD.
  Usually it was asking for LUKS passphrase in blue graphical screen of
  Xubuntu.

  All kernels since then just show the usual BIOS "DELL" in circle
  splash, then 1 minute black screen and then

    BusyBox, ...

    (initramfs) _

  I'm not aware of doing anything to cause the problem like changing
  booting, upgrading ubuntu release etc.

  Today I discovered that the current linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic boots in Recovery mode, asking for passphrase in text mode. Then I can resume normal boot in text dialog and almost all is up. But the xrandr does not work as well as monitor switching etc.
  Will return to the old -34 kernel.

  I asked in the local Linux group and other user reports the same, he
  didn't resolve the problem as well.

  Attaching the apport report.

  Thanks for hope.
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: i386
  AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D3', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D8p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
  CurrentDmesg:
   Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-order /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: comm: /var/log/dmesg: Permission denied
   dmesg: write failed: Broken pipe
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-27 (731 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6530
  Package: linux (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-34-generic root=/dev/mapper/xubuntu-root ro quiet splash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
  PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
  Tags:  trusty
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-30 (151 days ago)
  UserGroups: audio dip plugdev pulse pulse-access video
  WifiSyslog:
   
  _MarkForUpload: True
  dmi.bios.date: 06/20/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A15
  dmi.board.asset.tag: TUTTLE-LBC
  dmi.board.name: 0JC5MT
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A01
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: TUTTLE-LBC
  dmi.chassis.type: 9
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd06/20/2014:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6530:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn0JC5MT:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Latitude E6530
  dmi.product.version: 01
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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