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Bug#1061731: fwupd: Failed to load daemon: failed to load engine: Failed to load config: Key file does not have group “redfish”

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Laurent Bigonville

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Jan 29, 2024, 5:00:05 AM1/29/24
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Package: fwupd
Version: 1.9.12-1
Severity: serious

Hello,

It seems that fwupd is not starting anymore on my machine.

In the logs I can see:

jan 29 10:40:28 eriador systemd[1]: Starting fwupd.service - Firmware
update daemon...
jan 29 10:40:28 eriador fwupd[13042]: Failed to load daemon: failed to
load engine: Failed to load config: Key file does not have group “redfish”
jan 29 10:40:28 eriador systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
jan 29 10:40:28 eriador systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
jan 29 10:40:28 eriador systemd[1]: Failed to start fwupd.service -
Firmware update daemon.

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville

Matthew Foulkes

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Jan 29, 2024, 2:40:05 PM1/29/24
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Hello,

As a workaround, purging and then reinstalling fwupd and dependencies
fixed the problem on my machine.

Regards, Matthew

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Sébastien Dinot

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Jan 31, 2024, 1:40:05 AM1/31/24
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Hi guys,

I fixed the issue on my system by commenting out the title of the two
empty sections in /etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf:

#[redfish]
...
#[uefi_capsule]

Then, of course, you need to start the daemon:

$ sudo systemctl start fwupd

Sébastien

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Laurent Bigonville

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Jan 31, 2024, 6:00:05 AM1/31/24
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:47:50 +0100 Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> It seems that fwupd is not starting anymore on my machine.
>
> In the logs I can see:
>
> jan 29 10:40:28 eriador systemd[1]: Starting fwupd.service - Firmware
> update daemon...
> jan 29 10:40:28 eriador fwupd[13042]: Failed to load daemon: failed to
> load engine: Failed to load config: Key file does not have group
“redfish”
> jan 29 10:40:28 eriador systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Main process exited,
> code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> jan 29 10:40:28 eriador systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Failed with result
> 'exit-code'.
> jan 29 10:40:28 eriador systemd[1]: Failed to start fwupd.service -
> Firmware update daemon.
>

I've no idea what happened, but the configuration file was changed (I
didn't do these changes):

$ sudo diff -u fwupd/fwupd.conf /etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf
--- fwupd/fwupd.conf    2024-01-24 10:15:36.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf    2023-07-13 11:36:11.244229063 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
-# use `man 5 fwupd.conf` for documentation
 [fwupd]
 DisabledPlugins=test;test_ble
 OnlyTrusted=true
 AllowEmulation=false
+DisabledPlugins=test;test_ble
+IgnorePower=false
+OnlyTrusted=true
+AllowEmulation=false
+
+[msr]
+MinimumSmeKernelVersion=5.18.0
+
+[redfish]
+
+[thunderbolt]
+MinimumKernelVersion=4.13.0
+DelayedActivation=false
+RetimerOfflineMode=false
+
+[uefi_capsule]

Michel Casabona

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Jan 31, 2024, 8:20:05 AM1/31/24
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Hi,

It seems that the bug is fixed upstream

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/6735
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