Thanks again for the rapid feedback. It's nice to know that I jumped to an unreasonable conclusion.
Now that I know to kill the fwupd process I've made more progress testing the failure modes but still find some lacking: - Removing /etc/pki/fwupd or /etc/pki/fwupd-metadata results in nice error messages. - Replacing /etc/pki/fwupd/GPG-KEY-Linux-Vendor-Firmware-Service and /etc/pki/fwupd-metadata/GPG-KEY-Linux-Vendor-Firmware-Service with my own GPG key immediately after installing the fwupd package but before running "fwupdmgr refresh" does not result in any kind of error message. /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml is downloaded and unpacked and I can't understand why this succeeds. To reproduce: start with a blank xenial vm apt-get install fwupd gpg --recv-keys 9D8D2E97 --keyserver keys.gnupg.net gpg --export --armor 9D8D2E97 > /etc/pki/fwupd/GPG-KEY-Linux-Vendor-Firmware-Service gpg --export --armor 9D8D2E97 > /etc/pki/fwupd-metadata/GPG-KEY-Linux-Vendor-Firmware-Service ls -l /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml # confirm ENOENT fwupdmgr refresh ls -l /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml # confirm created -- why? Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536871 Title: [MIR] fwupd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupd/+bug/1536871/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
