Re: [arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "

2016-08-03 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:03:41 -0700 Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi All, > > This is admittedly more about Linux in general than Arch > specifically, but I’m wondering if anybody has insight into why I > can’t delete EFI variables, when efivarfs is mounted read-write. For > anybody interested, I am wanti

Re: [arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "

2016-08-03 Thread Alive 4ever
Are you trying to delete 'nvram' file on the efi partition directly or are you trying to delete /sys/firmware/efi* ? I think it would be saver to use 'efibootmgr' instead of manually deleting 'efivar' or 'nvram' file.

Re: [arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "

2016-08-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:21:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I have no knowledge about this domain, but perhaps they are immutable. > >[root@moonstudio tmp]# touch test >[root@moonstudio tmp]# lsattr test >-e-- test >[root@moonstudio tmp]# chattr +i test >[root@moonstudio tmp]# lsattr test

Re: [arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "

2016-08-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I have no knowledge about this domain, but perhaps they are immutable. [root@moonstudio tmp]# touch test [root@moonstudio tmp]# lsattr test -e-- test [root@moonstudio tmp]# chattr +i test [root@moonstudio tmp]# lsattr test ie-- test [root@moonstudio tmp]# rm -f test rm: c

Re: [arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "

2016-08-03 Thread Damjan Georgievski via arch-general
On 3 August 2016 at 22:03, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi All, > > This is admittedly more about Linux in general than Arch specifically, but > I’m wondering if anybody has insight into why I can’t delete EFI variables, > when efivarfs is mounted read-write. For anybody interested, I am wanting to >

[arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "

2016-08-03 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, This is admittedly more about Linux in general than Arch specifically, but I’m wondering if anybody has insight into why I can’t delete EFI variables, when efivarfs is mounted read-write. For anybody interested, I am wanting to remove the default boot entry created by systemd-boot, but