Re: Installing shim-signed:amd64 is met with a "cat: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size: No such file or directory" error
That's excellent. Thank you for fixing that so quick and your work on
shim-signed! :)
Derrick
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 4:40 PM Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Derrick!
>
> Derrick Karpo wrote:
> >
> >I'm using live-build 1:20210407 and on Friday the build worked fine
> >but today during the build it errored. Note: This may be a shim-signed
> >issue and not a live-build issue!
> >
> ><snip>
> >Setting up shim-signed:amd64 (1.34+15.4-2) ...
> >cat: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size: No such file or directory
> >dpkg: error processing package shim-signed:amd64 (--configure):
> > installed shim-signed:amd64 package post-installation script
> >subprocess returned error exit status 1
> >Errors were encountered while processing:
> > shim-signed:amd64
> >E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >Setting up shim-signed:amd64 (1.34+15.4-2) ...
> >cat: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size: No such file or directory
> >dpkg: error processing package shim-signed:amd64 (--configure):
> > installed shim-signed:amd64 package post-installation script
> >subprocess returned error exit status 1
> >Errors were encountered while processing:
> > shim-signed:amd64
> ><snip>
> >
> >I went into the chroot and when manually installing shim-signed it
> >still fails. I bind mounted /sys and /dev and the failures still
> >happen in that it "cat: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size: No such
> >file or directory".
>
> Apologies, you've hit bug #988059 in shim-signed. I've just uploaded a
> fixed version to sid which should now work for you. I've been updating
> the packaging a lot recently to fix other bugs, and added this new
> one. :-(
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
> "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could
> ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
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