[Bug 1807526] Re: Can't update UEFI firmware on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 (20FY) with fwupdmgr - does not apply update after reboot

[Mario Limonciello]

No plans to update to efivar 37 in cosmic.

I would recommend you adopt the fwupd snap instead to do your update if you're affected by this problem:
https://snapcraft.io/fwupd

** Package changed: fwupd (Ubuntu) => efivar (Ubuntu)

** Also affects: efivar (Ubuntu Cosmic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: efivar (Ubuntu Disco)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: efivar (Ubuntu Disco)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: efivar (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Can't update UEFI firmware on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 (20FY) with
  fwupdmgr - does not apply update after reboot

Status in efivar package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in efivar source package in Cosmic:
  Won't Fix
Status in efivar source package in Disco:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  A couple of days ago Software Manager notifies me about a UEFI
  firmware update when clicking it, nothing happens.

  I reboot and again it notifies me of the same update (apparently it
  didn't apply). So I try to resort to fwupdmgr and I type in:

  ~$ sudo fwupdmgr update 
  Downloading 184.55.3510 for UEFI Device Firmware...
  Decompressing…         [***************************************]
  Authenticating…        [***************************************]
  Updating UEFI Device Firmware from 176.0.1202 to 184.55.3510…  ]
  Scheduling…            [***************************************]

  An update requires a reboot to complete. Restart now? [Y|n]:

  So apparently there is a reboot step to update the firmware. I answer
  'yes' to reboot. After that the laptop reboots a couple times. The
  first one seems to execute a bootloader called 'fwupdx64.efi' or
  something and finds a file under /EFI/ubuntu/fw, seemingly good.

  Then after that reboot, the screen goes blank for a moment and the
  laptop reboots again normally. After loggin in again, the device shows
  the old firmware version number and the Software Manager again
  notifies me about the update.

  This is the output of the device if I type in fwupdmgr get-devices

  UEFI Device Firmware
    DeviceId:             aff24b50c0a8c292c6c2a81d3827c36d7a86f62a
    Guid:                 03d3297b-3851-4379-95ad-12e21a96c80a
    Guid:                 936fb33c-f3ff-5214-b7d0-915ea8c8b84c
    Plugin:               uefi
    Flags:                internal|updatable|require-ac|supported|registered|needs-reboot
    Version:              176.0.1202
    VersionLowest:        176.0.1202
    Icon:                 audio-card
    Created:              2018-12-08
    Modified:             2018-12-08
    UpdateState:          needs-reboot

  First thing I came across is that the firmware is detected as a
  Thinkpad T460s and mine is a Yoga 14 20FY (I know Lenovo uses almost
  same hardware on most of it's Thinkpad line) so maybe the update is
  not for this laptop, but fwupdmgr recognizing it as such seems odd.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: fwupd 1.1.2-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-12.13-generic 4.18.17
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Dec  8 15:33:01 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-18 (111 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725.1)
  SourcePackage: fwupd
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-20 (49 days ago)

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