Public bug reported:

On my machine, none of the tools bundled in efitools (in
/usr/share/efitools/efi/) work at all. They all freeze with no output
whatsoever.

I am working with an ASRock E3V5 WS motherboard with BIOS version 7.10
(the latest). This BIOS is based off of an AMI BIOS. I have tried
launching the tools (primarily KeyTool) both as \EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi on
a FAT-formatted flash drive and indirectly via the EFI shell (launched
from the same flash drive). I have tried the files from Ubuntu 16.04,
version "1.7.0.3.g791e463-1" from Arch Linux, as well as the 2013
version from http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/wp-
uploads/2013/KeyTool.efi, and none of them work. However, I am able to
launch the EFI shell using the binary from EDK2 as well as booting
Ubuntu 16.04 via the EFI stub, so the platform's UEFI functionality is
at least somewhat working.

In addition, a separate issue (should I open a new bug?) is that efi-
updatevar seems to not work on a variety of platforms (e.g.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/controlling-sb.html#linux,
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki's_EFI_Install_Guide/Configuring_Secure_Boot)
and instead gives "Cannot write to <var>, wrong filesystem permissions,"
which is what prompted the attempt to use KeyTool in the first place.

Let me know if I can provide more information about this bug.

** Affects: efitools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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