> I suspect this has something to do with the update to shim-signed
1.33.1~17.10.1

We know that some Acer systems have non-compliant UEFI firmware
implementations, and do not honor boot options configured via efibootmgr
from the OS.  It sounds like this is the case for your system, and that
as a result, your system is being booted via \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI,
which is indeed part of shim; and that this triggers fbx64.efi, the
"fallback" behavior, to try to recover the contents of the Boot*
variables based on the provided information in \EFI\*\BOOTX64.CSV (in
this case, probably only \EFI\ubuntu\BOOTX64.CSV).

But because the Acer firmware is broken, after fbx64.efi "successfully"
repopulates the Boot* variables and reboots, the firmware again boots to
fallback instead of to the correct boot entry.

I don't think there is anything we can do to detect or fix this in
Ubuntu.  The primary bug here is that the Acer system is booting
\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI which it should never do (and which Ubuntu did not
configure it to do).  I think your change to boot "EFI File Boot 0" is
(despite the poor boot option naming) the correct fix for your system.

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