[Bug 1943833] Re: fwupd failed to update metadata for lvfs

[Mario Limonciello]

OK so KDE discover in 5.18 version downloads natively in QT using a
QNetworkRequest.  AFAICT QNetworkRequest doesn't by default request a
compressed file, but needs to explicitly request this to the server:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2340548/does-qnetworkmanager-get-
accept-compressed-replies-by-default

Because of that this bug occurs with KDE discover.  KDE discover 5.20.90
and newer have adopted libfwupd for doing the download and should no
longer encounter this.

** No longer affects: libjcat (Ubuntu Focal)

** No longer affects: libjcat (Ubuntu Hirsute)

** No longer affects: libjcat (Ubuntu Impish)

** Also affects: fwupd (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: plasma-discover (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: libjcat (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: plasma-discover (Ubuntu Jammy)

** Changed in: plasma-discover (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** No longer affects: libjcat (Ubuntu Focal)

** Changed in: fwupd (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  fwupd failed to update metadata for lvfs

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  Triaged
Status in fwupd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in libjcat package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in plasma-discover package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fwupd source package in Focal:
  Invalid
Status in plasma-discover source package in Focal:
  New
Status in fwupd source package in Jammy:
  Invalid
Status in libjcat source package in Jammy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When running `fwupdmgr refresh` from the command line or when
  performing an update from the Software application the following error
  will be thrown:

  Failed to update metadata for lvfs: checksum failure: failed to verify
  data, expected 98261db7124c8026fb88f77768787efc2f8355c3

  The cause is an outdated libjcat, as explained in the upstream bug
  report:
  https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/3652#issuecomment-912677175

  0.1.3 is included in Ubuntu but at least 0.1.4 of libjcat is required
  to function properly.

  Firmware can not be updated any longer as a result unless forcing the
  update manually by performing `fwupdmgr refresh --force`.

  This means the libjcat dependency of this package needs to be set to
  0.1.4 minimum and the libjcat package itself needs to be updated.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: fwupd 1.5.11-0ubuntu1~21.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-34.36-generic 5.11.22
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-34-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Thu Sep 16 16:19:33 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-12 (735 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
  SourcePackage: fwupd
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-05-26 (112 days ago)
  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: 2021-03-25T16:21:42.746540
  mtime.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs.conf: 2021-06-07T11:13:00.873724

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