Package: fwupd Version: 1.3.2-2 Severity: important So what is happening now, with the new fwupd-refresh service is:
$ systemctl status fwupd-refresh.service ● fwupd-refresh.service - Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/fwupd-refresh.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-10-18 13:48:28 IST; 1min 16s ago Docs: man:fwupdmgr(1) Process: 8815 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fwupdmgr refresh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 8832 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fwupdmgr get-updates --verbose --log 85-fwupd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 8832 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Oct 18 13:48:27 priyasi systemd[1]: Starting Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd... Oct 18 13:48:27 priyasi fwupdmgr[8815]: Fetching metadata https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz Oct 18 13:48:28 priyasi fwupdmgr[8815]: Fetching signature https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz.asc Oct 18 13:48:28 priyasi fwupdmgr[8832]: (fwupdmgr:8832): GLib-GIO-DEBUG: 13:48:28.310: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation loc> Oct 18 13:48:28 priyasi systemd[1]: fwupd-refresh.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 18 13:48:28 priyasi systemd[1]: fwupd-refresh.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 18 13:48:28 priyasi systemd[1]: Failed to start Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd. If I run the same command from the console as user root, it works proper If I drop the --log option, then it passes -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled 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 1.3.2-2 ii libgcab-1.0-0 1.3-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.62.1-1 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 2.68.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.30.1-1 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+2 ii python3 3.7.5-1 fwupd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information