"Could not create MokListRT" message on boot

[Antony]

Hi,

I upgraded to Kubuntu 21.04 from Kubuntu 20.10.

Since the upgrade, every time I boot, I receive two lines of text before the grub menu shows up, saying "Failed. to set MokListRT: Not enough resources", "Could not create MokListRT: Not enough resources".

The OS boots and works without problem. But every time I get this messages while bootup which used to be not the case with 20.10.

Description: Ubuntu 21.04
Release: 21.04

shim-signed:
  Installed: 1.47+15.4-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.47+15.4-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.47+15.4-0ubuntu2 1 (phased 19%)
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.46+15.4-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/main amd64 Packages

What you expected to happen:
No messages before grub

What happened instead
Receiving error messages before grub

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

These messages indicate that shim is unable to set a variable in firmware to communicate to the OS the status of the MOK database. It is caused by a problem with your system's firmware or hardware. The reason these messages are printed is because if they are not, it is very difficult to diagnose why the variables are missing.

We can assess whether these messages should be suppressed by default, but in the meantime they are giving you important information that there is a problem with the nvram on your motherboard.

[Achim Behrens (k1l)]

The Problem is that this blocks the Grub-Menu from beeing displayed (while some say they can use the keys to navigate blindly on the menu. didnt test this so far myself)

So in case of some recovery beeing needed this gets a big issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:13:24AM -0000, Achim Behrens wrote:
> The Problem is that this blocks the Grub-Menu from beeing displayed

That is not the problem reported in this bug. If you are seeing issues with
the grub menu not being displayed when it is configured to do so, please
file a separate bug report against grub2.

[Achim Behrens (k1l)]

I did file a new bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1929324

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Can you please check whether this error still exists with the current version of shim-signed in hirsute-updates, 1.48+15.4-0ubuntu5 ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for shim-signed (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]