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[Lenovo Thinkpad L560/L570] Latest ubuntu bios upgrade bricks the computer

Bug #1791589 reported by Federico Foschini on 2018-09-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1791407: Thinkpad L570 UEFI destroyed after BIOS update. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fwupdate (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

On Friday 7 Sep. a bios update was released through ubuntu software center in Ubuntu 18.04.
I've attached a screenshot of the update to this bug report.

I've applied the update to a Lenovo Thinkpad L560 AND a Lenovo Thinkpad L570 and after rebooting both computers started beeping and they died.

Now both laptop shows only a black screen and all the Lenovo suggested procedures to restore the BIOS were unfruitful. The only solution appears to send back the laptops to be repaired.

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Federico Foschini (undicizeri) wrote on 2018-09-10:

The bios update screenshot Edit (25.7 KiB, image/png)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-09-10:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Federico Foschini (undicizeri) on 2018-09-10

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ubuntu → fwupdate (Ubuntu)

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Federico Foschini (undicizeri) wrote on 2018-09-10:

This is the entry on `/var/lib/fwupd/pending.db`:
```
"1" "ad73b1abbbd983e017f281e79619c8bec4b30158" "4" "20F10029IX System Firmware" "uefi" "1536302878" "1536316590" "e6e3d9960af62126d47a1b4dc8c538cc16164079" "267" "CpuArchitecture=x86_64;FwupdVersion=1.0.6;GUsbVersion=0.2.11;SecureBoot=Enabled;AppstreamGlibVersion=0.7.4;FwupdateVersion=10;EfivarVersion=34;ESPMountPoint=/boot/efi;KernelVersion=4.15.0-33-generic;UEFIUXCapsule=Disabled;BootTime=1536302842" "73154342-3fe3-40c7-94e3-27c4c934b00e" "0.1.17" "0.1.43"
```