Package: fwupd Version: 1.9.13-1 Severity: important Tags: patch User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Maintainer, Steps to reproduce: on a clean Debian sid system, install fwupd, then try to start the fwupd-refresh service. It fails with: ``` systemd[1]: Starting fwupd-refresh.service - Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd... (fwupdmgr)[3669]: fwupd-refresh.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process systemd[1]: fwupd-refresh.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER systemd[1]: fwupd-refresh.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. systemd[1]: Failed to start fwupd-refresh.service - Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd. ``` The issue is that the fwupd-refresh user doesn't exist, as can be seen with `grep fwupd /etc/passwd`. The bug was introduced with commit 6e3af79c on 2023-10-06, where the adduser command in the fwupd.postinst was dropped, and instead a file /usr/lib/sysusers.d/fwupd.conf was introduced. However it's not enough to install a drop-in file in sysusers.d/, one must also call systemd-sysusers in the postinst script, which is achieved thanks to dh_installsysusers. Please find the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/efi-team/fwupd/-/merge_requests/14 Thanks, Arnaud
