failed to build silo: failed to compile /usr/share/fwupd/quirks.d/tpm.quirk

[chris pollock]

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04

apt-cache policy fwupd
fwupd:
  Installed: 1.3.11-1~focal1
  Candidate: 1.3.11-1~focal1
  Version table:

When fwupd attempts to run this is written to my syslog:

fwupd[920251]: 11:13:34:0743 FuQuirks failed to build silo: failed to compile /usr/share/fwupd/quirks.d/tpm.quirk:ctime=1601481168.750206: cannot process content type application/x-stmprg-spm

I've run
sudo systemctl status fwupd.service -l
[sudo] password for chris:
● fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fwupd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-10-08 06:13:34 CDT; 2h 22min ago
       Docs: https://fwupd.org/
   Main PID: 920251 (fwupd)
      Tasks: 5 (limit: 17889)
     Memory: 8.4M
     CGroup: /system.slice/fwupd.service
             └─920251 /usr/libexec/fwupd/fwupd

The complete output of this is attached to the bug report.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Have you installed anything that added new mine types?

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Sorry mime

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

Nothing new, just updates as they're needed.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Can you please provide a list of installed packages? Something seems to be providing a mime type that might be breaking fwupd. We need to figure out what it is.

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

See attached

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

If you remove gwyddion and gwyddion-common can you see if that helps?

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

Removed, I'll check logs to see if it's fixed and let you know.

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

So far so good, no fwupd errors so far today.

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

This issue appears to be fixed. No problems since last Thursday. I believe it can be closed.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This to me is either a bug in libxmlb or in gwyddion.

- If it's in libxmlb it's that it's not accepting formats with wrong mimetypes. This actually might be improved in a newer libxmlb, the 0.2.1 release has this specifically: https://github.com/hughsie/libxmlb/commit/3101baad938d63f26cda7e3296875adcde282f60

- If it's in gwyddion it's too liberal of a mime type match.

The newer libxmlb is not yet packaged however.

[OliFre (freyermuth)]

This can still be reproduced with more recent libxmlb (testted with 0.3.6 on Gentoo).

I have reported the issue to Gwyddion upstream with a proposed patch to remove the broad matching:
https://sourceforge.net/p/gwyddion/mailman/gwyddion-devel/thread/9e1f6694-c39b-6131-796b-667f6e25f7e9%40googlemail.com/#msg37595049
and the patch was merged in:
https://sourceforge.net/p/gwyddion/code/24576/

In addition, I've opened a Debian Bug reporting the issue and the patch:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004263

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gwyddion - 2.60-2

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gwyddion (2.60-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Oliver Freyermuth ]
  * Fix application/x-stmprg-spm mime type pattern
    Closes: #1004263 (LP: #1899036)

 -- Andreas Tille <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:26:10 +0100