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  1. Bug #1929471
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 1929471

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In , dennis.schridde (dennis.schridde-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Description of problem:

shimx64.efi does not appear to boot into fwupdx64.efi (booting into "Linux-Firmware-Updater" behaves the same as booting into "Fedora", firmware updates do not get installed).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Installed Packages
Name : efibootmgr
Version : 16
Release : 11.fc35
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 94 k
Source : efibootmgr-16-11.fc35.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : anaconda
Summary : EFI Boot Manager
URL : https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/
License : GPLv2+
Description : efibootmgr displays and allows the user to edit the Intel Extensible
             : Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager variables. Additional
             : information about EFI can be found at https://uefi.org/.

Name : fwupd
Version : 1.7.2
Release : 1.fc35
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 6.9 M
Source : fwupd-1.7.2-1.fc35.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : updates
Summary : Firmware update daemon
URL : https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd
License : LGPLv2+
Description : fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware.

Name : shim-x64
Version : 15.4
Release : 5
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 3.6 M
Source : shim-15.4-5.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : anaconda
Summary : First-stage UEFI bootloader
URL : https://github.com/rhboot/shim/
License : BSD
Description : Initial UEFI bootloader that handles chaining to a trusted full
             : bootloader under secure boot environments. This package contains the
             : version signed by the UEFI signing service.

How reproducible: Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup firmware update for installation with `fwupdmgr update`
2. Reboot computer (regularly, or manually booting into Linux-Firmware-Updater, no difference)
3. Observe that you are dropped straight into Grub.

Actual results:

I am being send straight into Grub. Nothing that indicates that a firmware updater (fwupdx64.efi) is being run.

Expected results:

Firmware should update.

Additional info:

This appears to be https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/+bug/1929471 and https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo-thinkpad/issues/123 which are supposedly fixed by https://github.com/rhboot/shim/pull/379.