[Bug 2138720] [NEW] fwupdmgr refresh running not finished

Challvy 2138720 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Jan 20 11:09:36 UTC 2026


Public bug reported:

Problem Scenario: A bare-metal instance running on Alibaba Cloud ECS was rebooted. After one particular boot, I noticed via systemctl list-jobs that the following service was still active:
fwupd-refresh.service

My investigation details are in the attached log.txt.

The network connectivity is fine. It appears that the download of
/var/lib/fwupd/metadata/lvfs/metadata.xml.zst started but got stuck
halfway through.

Jan 19 23:41:52 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ systemd[1]: Starting fwupd-refresh.service - Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd...
Jan 19 23:41:53 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ dbus-daemon[12150]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.fwupd' unit='fwupd.service' requested by ':1.17' (uid=989 pid=14984 comm="/usr/bin/fwupdmgr refresh" label="unconfined")
Jan 19 23:41:53 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ systemd[1]: Starting fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon...
Jan 19 23:41:55 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ snapd[12272]: daemon.go:556: gracefully waiting for running hooks
Jan 19 23:41:55 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ snapd[12272]: daemon.go:558: done waiting for running hooks
Jan 19 23:41:56 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ fwupd[15003]: 15:41:56.445 FuMain               fwupd 1.9.31 ready for requests (locale en_US.UTF-8)
Jan 19 23:41:56 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ dbus-daemon[12150]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.fwupd'
Jan 19 23:41:56 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ systemd[1]: Started fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon.
Jan 19 23:41:56 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ fwupdmgr[14984]: Updating lvfs

This issue does not occur every time.

Could you please help take a look?
Thank you!

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

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Title:
  fwupdmgr refresh running not finished

Status in fwupd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Problem Scenario: A bare-metal instance running on Alibaba Cloud ECS was rebooted. After one particular boot, I noticed via systemctl list-jobs that the following service was still active:
  fwupd-refresh.service

  My investigation details are in the attached log.txt.

  The network connectivity is fine. It appears that the download of
  /var/lib/fwupd/metadata/lvfs/metadata.xml.zst started but got stuck
  halfway through.

  Jan 19 23:41:52 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ systemd[1]: Starting fwupd-refresh.service - Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd...
  Jan 19 23:41:53 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ dbus-daemon[12150]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.fwupd' unit='fwupd.service' requested by ':1.17' (uid=989 pid=14984 comm="/usr/bin/fwupdmgr refresh" label="unconfined")
  Jan 19 23:41:53 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ systemd[1]: Starting fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon...
  Jan 19 23:41:55 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ snapd[12272]: daemon.go:556: gracefully waiting for running hooks
  Jan 19 23:41:55 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ snapd[12272]: daemon.go:558: done waiting for running hooks
  Jan 19 23:41:56 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ fwupd[15003]: 15:41:56.445 FuMain               fwupd 1.9.31 ready for requests (locale en_US.UTF-8)
  Jan 19 23:41:56 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ dbus-daemon[12150]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.fwupd'
  Jan 19 23:41:56 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ systemd[1]: Started fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon.
  Jan 19 23:41:56 iZ2ze0khihxskz0gy2237yZ fwupdmgr[14984]: Updating lvfs

  This issue does not occur every time.

  Could you please help take a look?
  Thank you!

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