Bug#995270: fwupdmgr: WARNING: Firmware can not be updated in legacy BIOS mode

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Package: fwupd
Version: 1.5.7-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de

tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ sudo fwupdmgr get-devices
WARNING: Firmware can not be updated in legacy BIOS mode
  See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:legacy-bios for more information.
[…]

I’ve followed the instructions on the listed page and added uefi
to the list of disabled plugins, but the message still is shown.

This laptop doesn’t have EFI.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages fwupd depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.31-13
ii  libcurl3-gnutls            7.74.0-1.3+b1
ii  libefiboot1                37-6
ii  libelf1                    0.183-3
ii  libelogind0 [libsystemd0]  246.9.1-1+debian1
ii  libflashrom1               1.2-5
ii  libfwupd2                  1.5.7-4
ii  libfwupdplugin1            1.5.7-4
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.66.8-1
ii  libgnutls30                3.7.1-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0             234-1
ii  libgusb2                   0.3.5-1
ii  libjcat1                   0.1.3-2
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0         1.6.2-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-31
ii  libsmbios-c2               2.4.3-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.34.1-3
ii  libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0       3.0.3-2
ii  libxmlb1                   0.1.15-2
ii  shared-mime-info           2.0-1

Versions of packages fwupd recommends:
pn  bolt           <none>
ii  dbus           1.12.20-2
pn  fwupd-signed   <none>
ii  python3        3.9.2-3
pn  secureboot-db  <none>
ii  udisks2        2.9.2-2

Versions of packages fwupd suggests:
pn  gir1.2-fwupd-2.0  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/fwupd/daemon.conf changed:
[fwupd]
DisabledDevices=
DisabledPlugins=test;test_ble;invalid;uefi
ArchiveSizeMax=0
IdleTimeout=7200
VerboseDomains=
UpdateMotd=true
EnumerateAllDevices=false
ApprovedFirmware=
BlockedFirmware=
UriSchemes=


-- no debconf information