Mario Limonciello

> That's the eternal debate between kernel developers saying the kernel can guess what userspace wants, and HPC users not trusting kernel for understanding anything correctly. In the past, it...

This sounds like a BIOS bug. There is a sysfs file that the think-lmi kernel module exports that fwupd reads. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c#L1154 If you manually read that file I expect it's...

That's quite odd. I wonder if we have a bug in our BIOS settings handler in fwupd. You can see that the thinklmi plugin just gets it from context: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/blob/1_9_X/libfwupdplugin/fu-context.c#L347...

@awehrfritz shared it to me offline, but I can't seem to get any UpdateError errors on my uefi devices tripped with this. I tried it on my workstation. Here is...

> Thanks a lot @superm1 for looking into this! Much appreciated! > > Might be that I'm doing something wrong, but checking for `pending_change` give me this: > > ```...

> > It's "pending_reboot" > > Arrrg, that was just me playing around with this. I actually tried `pending_reboot` first, but also that is not available: > > ```shell >...

Can you please attach the output of `sudo fwupdtool get-bios-settings -vv 2>&1 | tee fwupdtool.txt`? I'd like to see if anything else complains that stands out why this wouldn't be...

Great sleuth work! Have a try with this: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/8041

> > reading that file works and `fwupdmgr get-devices` no longer shows that "Update Error: UEFI BIOS settings update pending reboot" error. > > This workaround worked for me *after*...

Is the partition type set properly on every partition?