This is a duplicate of 941360, which is fixed in git but waiting for review on some other important changes before upload: https://salsa.debian.org/efi-team/fwupd/commit/04cb53bdce9037c4af09b70486efd26eb89686e0
> -----Original Message----- > From: Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org> > Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 8:29 AM > To: Debian Bug Tracking System > Subject: Bug#941661: daemon fails to start > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > Package: fwupd > Version: 1.3.2-1 > Severity: serious > > Hi, > > It seems that the fwupd daemon fails to start: > > oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[1]: Starting Firmware update daemon... > oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[3854]: fwupd.service: Failed to set up special > execution directory in /var/cache: Not a directory > oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[3854]: fwupd.service: Failed at step > CACHE_DIRECTORY spawning /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd: Not a directory > oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Main process exited, > code=exited, status=239/CACHE_DIRECTORY > oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Failed with result > 'exit-code'. > oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[1]: Failed to start Firmware update daemon. > > > Looking at /var/cache, I see: > > ls -la /var/cache/fwupd/ > [...] > lrwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 13 sep 28 22:49 fwupd -> > private/fwupd > [...] > > /var/cache/private/fwupd also exists > > Kind regards, > > Laurent Bigonville > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bullseye/sid > APT prefers unstable-debug > APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, > 'experimental-debug'), > (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Permissive - Policy name: refpolicy > > Versions of packages fwupd depends on: > ii libarchive13 3.4.0-1 > ii libc6 2.29-2 > ii libefiboot1 37-2 > ii libefivar1 37-2 > ii libelf1 0.176-1.1 > ii libfwupd2 1.3.2-1 > ii libgcab-1.0-0 1.2-5 > ii libglib2.0-0 2.62.0-3 > ii libgnutls30 3.6.9-5 > ii libgpg-error0 1.36-7 > ii libgpgme11 1.13.1-1 > ii libgudev-1.0-0 233-1 > ii libgusb2 0.3.0-1 > ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.4.4-2 > ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-26 > ii libsmbios-c2 2.4.1-1 > ii libsoup2.4-1 2.68.1-2 > ii libsqlite3-0 3.29.0-2 > ii libtss2-esys0 2.1.0-4+b1 > ii libxmlb1 0.1.8-1+b1 > ii shared-mime-info 1.10-1 > > Versions of packages fwupd recommends: > ii bolt 0.8-4 > ii fwupd-amd64-signed [fwupd-signed] 1.3.2+1 > ii python3 3.7.5-1 > > fwupd suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information