Public bug reported: Recently it's been observed that mokutil is unable to make changes to the various Mok* variables. It complains that "fails to request state" when trying most actions or similar errors.
The root of these problems is because the variables have been set as immutable after this kernel commit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879 In many instances mokutil will delete the variable and recreate it, so changing it with chattr isn't a workable solution as the kernel will just recreate it with the immutable attribute and it will fail over again. I've submitted a kernel patch for this upstream: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/22/733 I feel this should be backported in Ubuntu's kernel as well. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: mokutil (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - "fails to request state" when trying to perform actions + "fails to request state" when trying to perform actions in mokutil -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1560764 Title: "fails to request state" when trying to perform actions in mokutil To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1560764/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
