Debian Bug report logs - #943343
fwupd: fwupd-refresh.service failed to start Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd.

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Package: fwupd; Maintainer for fwupd is Debian EFI <[email protected]>; Source for fwupd is src:fwupd (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jean-Marc <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions fwupd/1.3.2-2, fwupd/1.3.4-1, fwupd/1.3.9-2, fwupd/1.5.7-3, fwupd/1.5.7-2, fwupd/1.5.7-4

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Subject: Re: fwupd: fwupd-refresh.service failed to start Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd.
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I have a pair of laptops, one where fwupd-refresh.service is broken and one
where it works.  Both are running bullseye with the same versions of fwupd,
systemd, and dbus.  No remote users, nfs, freeipa, etc.


I've run both with this config:
  $ cat /etc/systemd/system/fwupd-refresh.service.d/override.conf
  [Service]
  StandardError=
  StandardError=journal
  ExecStart=
  ExecStart=/usr/bin/strace -ff /usr/bin/fwupdmgr -v refresh


The results aren't too enlightening - the broken one cannot auth to dbus as
it's systemd dynamic user:

  socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 7
  fcntl(7, F_GETFL)          = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
  fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
  connect(7, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket"}, 110) = 0
  sendmsg(7, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\0", iov_len=1}], msg_iovlen=1, msg_control=[{cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS, cmsg_data={pid=128515, uid=62803, gid=62803}}], msg_controllen=32, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 1
  sendto(7, "AUTH\r\n", 6, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 6
  recvfrom(7, "REJECTED EXTERNAL\r\n", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 19
  sendto(7, "AUTH EXTERNAL 3632383033\r\n", 26, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 26
  recvfrom(7, "REJECTED EXTERNAL\r\n", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 19


I don't know why that would fail.  If I could provide more details or test
something, please let me know.

Ross



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (40, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages fwupd depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.31-11
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.74.0-1.2
ii  libefiboot1            37-6
ii  libelf1                0.183-1
ii  libflashrom1           1.2-5
ii  libfwupd2              1.5.7-2
ii  libfwupdplugin1        1.5.7-2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.66.8-1
ii  libgnutls30            3.7.1-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         234-1
ii  libgusb2               0.3.5-1
ii  libjcat1               0.1.3-2
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0     1.6.2-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-30
ii  libsmbios-c2           2.4.3-1
ii  libsqlite3-0           3.34.1-3
ii  libsystemd0            247.3-3
ii  libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0   3.0.3-2
ii  libxmlb1               0.1.15-2
ii  shared-mime-info       2.0-1

Versions of packages fwupd recommends:
ii  bolt                               0.9.1-1
ii  dbus                               1.12.20-2
ii  fwupd-amd64-signed [fwupd-signed]  1.5.7+3
ii  python3                            3.9.2-2
pn  secureboot-db                      <none>
ii  udisks2                            2.9.2-1

Versions of packages fwupd suggests:
pn  gir1.2-fwupd-2.0  <none>

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