On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:48 AM Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just installed F29 on a HP 15-g023cl and was checking things out post install 
> and ran into this failed service I wasn't familiar with.
>
> # systemctl status dbxtool
> ● dbxtool.service - Secure Boot DBX (blacklist) updater
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbxtool.service; enabled; vendor 
> preset: enabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2018-11-22 11:21:39 CST; 
> 22min ago
>   Process: 784 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dbxtool -a /usr/share/dbxtool/ -q 
> (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>  Main PID: 784 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>
> Nov 22 11:21:38 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Secure Boot DBX 
> (blacklist) updater.
> Nov 22 11:21:39 localhost.localdomain dbxtool[784]: Applying 1 updates
> Nov 22 11:21:39 localhost.localdomain dbxtool[784]: Applying 
> "DBXUpdate-2016-08-09-13-16-00.bin" 2010-3-6 19:17:21
> Nov 22 11:21:39 localhost.localdomain dbxtool[784]: Could not apply database 
> update "DBXUpdate-2016-08-09-13-16-00.bin": Invalid argument
> Nov 22 11:21:39 localhost.localdomain dbxtool[784]: Cannot Continue.: Invalid 
> argument
> Nov 22 11:21:39 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: dbxtool.service: Main 
> process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Nov 22 11:21:39 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: dbxtool.service: Failed 
> with result 'exit-code'.
>
> I quickly found a few bugs, the oldest one is over a year old and was 
> initally reported on F27! There seem to be suggested fixes but no maintainer 
> action in some time.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508808
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593258

For 1593258 I've filed https://github.com/rhboot/dbxtool/issues/4
upstream. I wonder what's in this 2016 dbx update file that hasn't
already been applied by the manufacturer with recent firmware updates.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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