on update, notification in software center that fwupd failed to activate
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
fwupd (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
libsmbios (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Error occurs every time I update.
{ ~ } » sudo systemctl status fwupd.service ~ 1
● fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Mon 2018-01-22 20:08:08 CET; 18s ago
Docs: http://
Process: 6553 ExecStart=
Main PID: 6553 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
Jan 22 20:08:08 laptopian systemd[1]: Starting Firmware update daemon...
Jan 22 20:08:08 laptopian systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
Jan 22 20:08:08 laptopian systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Jan 22 20:08:08 laptopian systemd[1]: Failed to start Firmware update daemon.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: fwupd 1.0.2-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jan 22 20:08:48 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-23 (91 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: fwupd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-10 (11 days ago)
Changed in fwupd (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Hi @ian, thanks for filing.
Do you have a core dump in /var/crash that you can share to this bug?
If not, can you please see if you can reproduce it by manually trying to launch fwupd like this:
# sudo /usr/lib/ fwupd/fwupd -v