ubuntu 22.04 fwupd apt package seems broken (library / daemon version mismatch)

[James]

On Ubuntu 22.04.03, the fwupd package fails to perform a clean apt install.
The error given upon service startup is the following:

Dec 19 21:36:46 jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2 fwupd[9985]: Failed to load engine: libfwupd version 1.9.4 does not match daemon 1.7.9

More info below:

System version:
root@jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy

No fwupd related packages installed:
root@jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2:~# apt list --installed 2> /dev/null |grep fwupd

Now I install fwupd:
root@jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2:~# apt install fwupd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fwupd-signed libfwupd2 libfwupdplugin5
Suggested packages:
  gir1.2-fwupd-2.0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fwupd fwupd-signed libfwupd2 libfwupdplugin5
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,889 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,989 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Selecting previously unselected package libfwupd2:amd64.
(Reading database ... 329400 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libfwupd2_1.7.9-1~22.04.3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libfwupd2:amd64 (1.7.9-1~22.04.3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libfwupdplugin5:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libfwupdplugin5_1.7.9-1~22.04.3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libfwupdplugin5:amd64 (1.7.9-1~22.04.3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fwupd.
Preparing to unpack .../fwupd_1.7.9-1~22.04.3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fwupd (1.7.9-1~22.04.3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fwupd-signed.
Preparing to unpack .../fwupd-signed_1.51.1~22.04.1+1.4-0ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fwupd-signed (1.51.1~22.04.1+1.4-0ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up libfwupd2:amd64 (1.7.9-1~22.04.3) ...
Setting up fwupd-signed (1.51.1~22.04.1+1.4-0ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up libfwupdplugin5:amd64 (1.7.9-1~22.04.3) ...
Setting up fwupd (1.7.9-1~22.04.3) ...
fwupd-offline-update.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
fwupd-refresh.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
fwupd-refresh.timer is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
fwupd.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.20-2ubuntu4.1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

fwupd packages are now installed:
root@jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2:~# apt list --installed 2> /dev/null |grep fwupd
fwupd-signed/jammy-updates,now 1.51.1~22.04.1+1.4-0ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
fwupd/jammy-updates,now 1.7.9-1~22.04.3 amd64 [installed]
libfwupd2/jammy-updates,now 1.7.9-1~22.04.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libfwupdplugin5/jammy-updates,now 1.7.9-1~22.04.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]

Service is unable to start:
root@jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2:~# systemctl start fwupd
Job for fwupd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status fwupd.service" and "journalctl -xeu fwupd.service" for details.

Service complains about a library to daemon sw version mismatch:
root@jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2:~# systemctl status fwupd
× fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fwupd.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2023-12-19 21:36:46 PST; 20s ago
       Docs: https://fwupd.org/
    Process: 9985 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/fwupd/fwupd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 9985 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 59ms

Dec 19 21:36:46 jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2 systemd[1]: Starting Firmware update daemon...
Dec 19 21:36:46 jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2 fwupd[9985]: Failed to load engine: libfwupd version 1.9.4 does not match daemon 1.7.9
Dec 19 21:36:46 jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2 systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 19 21:36:46 jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2 systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 19 21:36:46 jwlandon-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-2 systemd[1]: Failed to start Firmware update daemon.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Do you have something in /usr/local perhaps? Or did you have a snap installed for fwupd?

[Oliver Kelly (0lzi)]

Not sure if related, I had an issue with this package, Kept failing to update in the `Ubuntu Software`. My issue was the snap and deb package were installed. But I could also not remove the snap

```
➜ oliverkelly ~ sudo snap remove fwupd
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Stop snap "fwupd" services (systemctl command [stop snap.fwupd.fwupd.service] failed with exit status 5: stderr:
Failed to stop snap.fwupd.fwupd.service: Unit snap.fwupd.fwupd.service not loaded.)
```

had to `sudo sytemctl stop fwupd` then `sudo snap remove fwupd` and then the apt version worked as expected.

[James (bizbat)]

> Do you have something in /usr/local perhaps?
I have a lot of fwupd files under /usr/local/* . See attached file.

>Or did you have a snap installed for fwupd?
There is a good chance that I installed a snap, but there is no fwupd snap installed now.

[James (bizbat)]

I noticed remnants of an old fwupd installation. Once removed, the service was able to install and load.
Closing as this does not need to be fixed.
thank all.