I think Eric has a good point. Why this fix is not ported back to Jammy? Jammy is a LTS Version so this service won't work for the next two years if the fix gets not back ported for all who stick to LTS for whatever reason.
This is then from my point of view also a security issue, since if this service is not running no firmware updates will be installed for several devices automatically. Since this is what this service is supposed to do and FW updates may also fix security issues. But the user thinks this service is there and doing it's job. Since from my experience most users never check if all the services are up and running fine as long as there is no unexpected behavior. So the user will also not manually check for FW updates, he believes the service does. And this service does not start on any Ubuntu installation at the moment! Also Focal needs this fix, since it is still supported for two more years. So can you please explain? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1969976 Title: DynamicUser=1 doesn't get along with services that need dbus-daemon Status in Fwupd: Fix Released Status in systemd: New Status in fwupd package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in fwupd source package in Focal: Confirmed Status in systemd source package in Focal: Won't Fix Status in fwupd source package in Impish: Won't Fix Status in systemd source package in Impish: Won't Fix Status in fwupd source package in Jammy: Confirmed Status in systemd source package in Jammy: Won't Fix Bug description: Updating to systemd 245.4-4ubuntu3.16 has caused a regression in Ubuntu 20.04, that fwupd-refresh.service always fails to run. This has been root caused down to the changes in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1871538 Unfortunately this is an upstream issue introduced by stable systemd. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/22737 The problem also occurs in Ubuntu 22.04 with a newer systemd release. As discussed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1871538/comments/61 it's a tradeoff of issues. So within Ubuntu something probably needs to be done about fwupd-refresh.service. One proposal is to remove DynamicUser=yes from the systemd unit, but this will mean fwupdgmr refresh runs as root. It's relatively sandboxed by other security mechanisms, but still not ideal. Could we repurpose any other service account? Or alternatively we can make a new fwupd service account that this systemd unit uses. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fwupd/+bug/1969976/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
