> -----Original Message----- > From: Diederik de Haas <didi.deb...@cknow.org> > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 7:57 AM > To: Limonciello, Mario > Cc: 943...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#943343: fwupd: fwupd-refresh.service failed to start > Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd. > > On woensdag 18 maart 2020 22:40:22 CET mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: > > I suspect this is related to an upgrade from the intermediary version > > that had problematic objects/permissions created. > > > Can you please try to check whether there are broken symlinks in > > /var/lib/private or /var/cache/private? > > It seems there are no symlinks, so also not broken symlinks. > > root@bagend:~# ls -la /var/lib/private/ > total 12 > drwx------ 3 root root 4096 mei 3 2018 . > drwxr-xr-x 82 root root 4096 mrt 19 08:47 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jan 10 2019 systemd root@bagend:~# ls -la > /var/lib/private/systemd/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jan 10 2019 . > drwx------ 3 root root 4096 mei 3 2018 .. > root@bagend:~# ls -la /var/cache/private/ total 16 > drwx------ 4 root root 4096 okt 9 21:36 . > drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 mrt 9 11:56 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 62803 62803 4096 jul 30 2019 fwupd drwxr-xr-x 2 62803 62803 > 4096 okt 9 21:36 fwupdmgr root@bagend:~# ls -la > /var/cache/private/fwupd/ total 720 > drwxr-xr-x 2 62803 62803 4096 jul 30 2019 . > drwx------ 4 root root 4096 okt 9 21:36 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 62803 62803 722862 jul 30 2019 metadata.xmlb > -rw-r--r-- 1 62803 62803 1471 jul 30 2019 metainfo.xmlb > root@bagend:~# ls -la /var/cache/private/fwupdmgr/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 > 62803 62803 4096 okt 9 21:36 . > drwx------ 4 root root 4096 okt 9 21:36 .. > > > FTR: My system is a fully up-to-date Sid system # systemd --version systemd > 245 (245.2-1) > +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP > ++LIBCRYPTSETUP GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID > +ELFUTILS > ++KMOD +IDN2 -IDN > +PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid
Has your system been rebooted recently? I check on my (working) system and I don't have /run/motd.d as a symlink to /run/private/motd.d. For my system /run/motd.d is a real directory with a subdirectory "fwupd". I have a suspicion this is related to the issue.
