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
> 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 root13 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 libefiboot137-2
> ii libefivar1 37-2
> ii libelf10.176-1.1
> ii libfwupd2 1.3.2-1
> ii libgcab-1.0-0 1.2-5
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.62.0-3
> ii libgnutls303.6.9-5
> 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 python33.7.5-1
>
> fwupd suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
