Package: fwupd Version: 1.5.7-4 Followup-For: Bug #943343 Following Klaus Kudielka's discovery of the systemd bug and the finding there that dbus-broker does not suffer the same problem as the dbus reference implementation I installed "dbus-broker" following the instructions at
https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/wiki which boils down to: apt install dbus-broker systemctl enable dbus-broker.service systemctl --global enable dbus-broker.service systemctl reboot $ sudo systemctl start fwupd-refresh $ systemctl status fwupd-refresh ○ fwupd-refresh.service - Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fwupd-refresh.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2023-02-02 11:22:20 GMT; 1s ago TriggeredBy: ● fwupd-refresh.timer Docs: man:fwupdmgr(1) Process: 4870 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fwupdmgr refresh (code=exited, status=2) Main PID: 4870 (code=exited, status=2) CPU: 35ms $ systemctl list-units --state failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION 0 loaded units listed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.7-tj-00007-g94868ba9f924 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages fwupd depends on: ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u5 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.87.0-2~bpo11+1 ii libefiboot1 37-6 ii libelf1 0.183-1 ii libflashrom1 1.2-5 ii libfwupd2 1.5.7-4 ii libfwupdplugin1 1.5.7-4 ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1 ii libgnutls30 3.7.1-5+deb11u2 ii libgudev-1.0-0 234-1 ii libgusb2 0.3.5-1 ii libjcat1 0.1.3-2 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.2-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-31+deb11u1 ii libsmbios-c2 2.4.3-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.34.1-3 ii libsystemd0 252.4-1~bpo11+1 ii libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0 3.0.3-2 ii libxmlb1 0.1.15-2 ii shared-mime-info 2.0-1 Versions of packages fwupd recommends: ii bolt 0.9.1-1 ii dbus 1.12.24-0+deb11u1 ii fwupd-amd64-signed [fwupd-signed] 1.5.7+4 ii python3 3.9.2-3 pn secureboot-db <none> ii udisks2 2.9.2-2+deb11u1 Versions of packages fwupd suggests: pn gir1.2-fwupd-2.0 <none>

