Here is a fix for it. I believe it's because of a clash with fwupd-refresh and fwupd specifically in systemd 242 and newer.
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/commit/dc7e7c3808d564d5769b2845dbd66a3651f72e07 On Sep 30, 2019 10:37, Francois Marier <franc...@debian.org> wrote: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] On 2019-09-29 at 23:57:02, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: > What version did you upgrade from? And was that directory already existing or > did it get created with the package? I'm also affected by this problem. In my case, I also purged the package and reinstalled it. The problem persists and the cache symlink looks like this: $ ls -l /var/cache/fwupd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13 sep 28 20:48 /var/cache/fwupd -> private/fwupd Francois -- https://fmarier.org/