Ah yes. It's the same as I reported upstream to systemd. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13688
I just uploaded fwupd 1.3.2-3. * For now the motd part of the unit is disabled unless on systemd 243+ ________________________________________ From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com> on behalf of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@debian.org> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2019 10:11 To: Limonciello, Mario; 942...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#942567: fwupd: fails to update metadata On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 13:57 +0000, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: > Could you please try to remove "StandardError=null" from the service > and see if the errors are clearer on the failure? Here you go: Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi systemd[1]: Starting Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd... Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: Fetching metadata https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:32 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31117]: Fetching signature https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz.asc Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31133]: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation local (GLocalVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’ Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31133]: Error opening file “/run/motd.d/85-fwupd”: Permission denied Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi systemd[1]: fwupd-refresh.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi systemd[1]: fwupd-refresh.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi systemd[1]: Failed to start Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi systemd[1]: Starting Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd... Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: Fetching metadata https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: unable to create directory '/.cache/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Oct 18 20:35:33 priyasi fwupdmgr[31138]: Fetching signature https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz.asc Oct 18 20:35:34 priyasi fwupdmgr[31160]: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation local (GLocalVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’ Oct 18 20:35:34 priyasi fwupdmgr[31160]: Error opening file “/run/motd.d/85-fwupd”: Permission denied Oct 18 20:35:34 priyasi systemd[1]: fwupd-refresh.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 18 20:35:34 priyasi systemd[1]: fwupd-refresh.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 18 20:35:34 priyasi systemd[1]: Failed to start Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd. Did you not test this before you did the upload to Unstable ? rrs@priyasi:/run$ file /run/motd.d /run/motd.d: broken symbolic link to private/motd.d 20:39 ♒ ॐ ☺ 😄 rrs@priyasi:/run$ sudo ls -lh private/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 62803 62803 40 Oct 18 09:00 motd.d drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Oct 17 16:40 systemd 20:39 ♒ ॐ ☺ 😄 rrs@priyasi:/run$ sudo ls -lh private/motd.d total 0 20:40 ♒ ॐ ☺ 😄 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
