linux-firmware issue

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 13 Sept 2025, 18:45 Little Girl, <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tge sudo apt update command and the sudo apt full-upgrade command are
> run regularly on this machine and don't solve the issue.
>

Do they run without any errors or warnings? If so that suggests that it is
the update manager that has a problem.

Colin L



> The apt policy linux-firmware command shows that I've got the
> available candidate installed.
>
> The fwupdmgr refresh command and the fwupdmgr --force refresh command
> produce the same cautionary output when run with or without sudo.
>
> The fwupdmgr update command produces this result, with XXX
> representing the device ID when run with or without sudo:
>
> Devices with no available firmware updates:
>  • XXX
> No updatable devices
>
> Someone in IRC suggested looking at the
> /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/lvfs.conf file and doing either or both of these
> things:
>
> Remove this line if you have it:
> keyring=gpg
>
> Replace gz with zst in this line, if you have it:
> MetadataURI=https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz
>
> I didn't have the keyring line and I changed the Metadata line.
> Despite that change, the output remains the same, even after a reboot.
>
> Someone else on IRC suggested that the cause for the pop-up is
> intermittent IME, that some "old  commands" may not work any more,
> and that this is a question for the #kubuntu-devel IRC channel. I
> tried asking about it in that channel that yesterday and today and
> got no response after several hours.
>
> I'm hoping that someone in here can tell me whether this is at my end
> or the server's end and whether it requires either my or the server
> folks' attention or can be safely ignored.
>
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>
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