On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 06:57:38PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>On 5/24/26 5:16 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Package: fwupd
>> Version: 2.0.10-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hey Mario,
>>
>> When I run "fwupdtool --version" I'm getting the above warning
>> message.
>>
>> I'm seeing this on a range of machines, running trixie (2.0.8-1),
>> trixie with a locally backported update (2.0.10-1) and unstable
>> (2.1.2-1). All of the machines have an ESP mounted at /boot/efi as
>> normal for a default-installed Debian system.
>>
>> The suggested wiki page at
>>
>> https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:esp-not-found
>>
>> doesn't really help. I've checked and on these machines udisks2 is
>> installed on some of them and not on others. *All* of the machines
>> report the error. How is this happening?
>
>Can you please share 'fwupdtool esp-list -v' output from one of them running
>unstable?
Sure - see attached.
>> P.S. I *hate* that you've apparently decided to now depend on udisks2
>> here - it's a totally unwanted piece of software for many people on
>> servers (etc.), while fwupd is something we *really8 should be pushing
>> people to install everywhere. This seems like a backward step from
>> allowing people to specify the ESP location directly.
>
>It wasn't taking lightly when we made this change upstream. There are safety
>checks done to ensure we don't cause an unbootable OS on multi disk or dual
>boot systems by doing a firmware update.
>
>You can't do this without being able to mount and investigate all potential
>ESPs on all disks.
Hmmm...
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected]
"Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt
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