Ok...For anyone with a Dell XPS 13 9360 who experiences an issue like this:
So I decided to purge and reinstall DKMS: sudo apt-get purge dkms BUT that removes all the following: dkms hid-multitouch-dkms intel-hid-dkms intel-vbutton-dkms oem-audio- hda-daily-dkms virtualbox-dkms I purged, then went in and manually deleted /var/ib/dkms and all its folders. I thought I could just copy/paste that line above with apt-get install to reinstall everything. I was wrong. I have a Dell XPS 13 9360 Developer Edition laptop which has some Dell provided driver kernel modules. oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms was available on their update repo. That was installed by apt-get just fine. hid-multitouch-dkms intel-hid-dkms intel-vbutton-dkms were NOT available in their update repo. I had to pull those from the Dell OEM Recovery ISO they offer of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I installed them using dpkg. I then found the following to rebuild kernel modules: ls /var/lib/initramfs-tools | \ sudo xargs -n1 /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start All appears fine again, but what a pain!!! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to dkms in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830915 Title: [Oneiric] Error during kernel upgrade: Could not locate dkms.conf file Status in dkms package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Настраивается пакет linux-image-3.0.0-9-generic (3.0.0-9.12) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later) Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.0.0-9-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-9-generic Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file. File: does not exist. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.0.0-9-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-9-generic update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-9-generic run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 3.0.0-9-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-9-generic run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier 3.0.0-9-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-9-generic run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 3.0.0-9-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-9-generic Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-9-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-9-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-8-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-8-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-10-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-10-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Ubuntu Natty (development branch) (11.04) on /dev/sdb5 done This, however, doesn't seem to be fatal. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: dkms 2.2.0.2-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Aug 22 12:43:31 2011 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101008.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: dkms UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-10 (11 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/830915/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp