Bug#941661: daemon fails to start

[Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>]

Package: fwupd
Version: 1.3.2-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

It seems that the fwupd daemon fails to start:

oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[1]: Starting Firmware update daemon...
oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[3854]: fwupd.service: Failed to set up special execution directory in /var/cache: Not a directory
oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[3854]: fwupd.service: Failed at step CACHE_DIRECTORY spawning /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd: Not a directory
oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=239/CACHE_DIRECTORY
oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
oct 03 15:23:38 edoras systemd[1]: Failed to start Firmware update daemon.


Looking at /var/cache, I see:

ls -la /var/cache/fwupd/ 
[...]
lrwxr-xr-x.  1 root          root            13 sep 28 22:49 fwupd -> private/fwupd
[...]

/var/cache/private/fwupd also exists

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Permissive - Policy name: refpolicy

Versions of packages fwupd depends on:
ii  libarchive13           3.4.0-1
ii  libc6                  2.29-2
ii  libefiboot1            37-2
ii  libefivar1             37-2
ii  libelf1                0.176-1.1
ii  libfwupd2              1.3.2-1
ii  libgcab-1.0-0          1.2-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.62.0-3
ii  libgnutls30            3.6.9-5
ii  libgpg-error0          1.36-7
ii  libgpgme11             1.13.1-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         233-1
ii  libgusb2               0.3.0-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0     1.4.4-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-26
ii  libsmbios-c2           2.4.1-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.68.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0           3.29.0-2
ii  libtss2-esys0          2.1.0-4+b1
ii  libxmlb1               0.1.8-1+b1
ii  shared-mime-info       1.10-1

Versions of packages fwupd recommends:
ii  bolt                               0.8-4
ii  fwupd-amd64-signed [fwupd-signed]  1.3.2+1
ii  python3                            3.7.5-1

fwupd suggests no packages.

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