Public bug reported:

The Ubuntu 22.04 repositories have fwupd version 1.7.9. This is a badly
outdated version that cannot cope with some of the newer updates.

(This doesn't affect all updates, and so it affects only some machines
depending on the hardware being supported.)

EXAMPLE:

$ fwupdmgr refresh
Failed to update metadata for lvfs: checksum failure: failed to verify data, 
expected 0a5a850327f8e8b196b2d79e79ce347cb86037f1

This has been discussed in the GitHub for fwupd:
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/6888

This problem was solved in the newest version of fwupd.

The snap store currently has the latest version of fwupd, version
1.9.14.

LONG-TERM SOLUTION

Therefore, the Ubuntu repositories for 22.04 must be updated either to
have the latest version of fwupd, or to replace it with the snap version
(in the same way as Firefox does).

WORKAROUND

For people currently having this problem, the current solution is to
uninstall the apt version fwupd (this is important) and then install the
snap version of fwupd.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: fwupd 1.7.9-1~22.04.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-25.25~22.04.1-generic 6.5.13
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar  8 12:14:03 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-08-28 (558 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 
(20220809.1)
SourcePackage: fwupd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs-testing.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs-testing.conf: 
2022-11-23T08:07:53.266347
mtime.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs.conf: 2022-11-23T08:07:53.358347

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


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug jammy

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  fwupd metadata bug due to outdated version in Ubuntu 22.04
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