[Bug 1744782] Re: on update, notification in software center that fwupd failed to activate

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This bug was fixed in the package libsmbios - 2.4.0-1

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libsmbios (2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version.
    - Fixes crashes in smbios-get-ut-data with inappropriate permissions
      (Closes: #777212)
    - Fixes crashes with SMBIOS 3.0 tables (LP: #1744782)
    - Fix location of cli.py installation (Closes: #701136)
    - No longer installs sh script with bashisms (Closes: #772330)
    - Drops unsupported RBU based flashing (Closes: #496546)
    - Fixes improper function definition (Closes: #748243)
    - Generate man pages with help2man (Closes: #748023)
  * No longer build deprecated C++ library.
    - No longer installs broken dellMediaDirectCtl (Closes: #715812)
  * debian/control:
    - Drop ia64 (Closes: #554582)
    - Update VCS
    - Add Debian EFI as team owner
    - Add Mario to uploaders list (Closes: #838078)
    - Add python3 packages
    - Drop python2 packages
    - Add python3 build-depends
    - Drop cppunit build-depends
    - Depend on libjs-jquery for libsmbios-doc
    - Rename libsmbios2 -> libsmbios-c2
      Provides/Conflicts/Replaces to make a good transition both for
      Debian & Ubuntu.
    - Build depends on help2man.
  * debian/copyright:
    - Fix long lines (Closes: #803607, #803608, #803609)
    - Remove references to C++ stuff
  * debian/rules:
    - Switch to new debhelper format
    - Enable hardening flags
  * debian/smbios-utils.links:
    - Drop reference to old rbu flash tool.

 -- Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello at dell.com>  Tue, 06 Feb 2018
12:40:46 -0600

** Changed in: libsmbios (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  on update, notification in software center that fwupd failed to
  activate

Status in fwupd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in libsmbios package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Error occurs every time I update.

  { ~ }  » sudo systemctl status fwupd.service                                                                                                                                                          ~ 1  
  ● fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fwupd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Mon 2018-01-22 20:08:08 CET; 18s ago
       Docs: http://www.fwupd.org/
    Process: 6553 ExecStart=/usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
   Main PID: 6553 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)

  Jan 22 20:08:08 laptopian systemd[1]: Starting Firmware update daemon...
  Jan 22 20:08:08 laptopian systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
  Jan 22 20:08:08 laptopian systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
  Jan 22 20:08:08 laptopian systemd[1]: Failed to start Firmware update daemon.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: fwupd 1.0.2-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-25.29-generic 4.13.13
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Mon Jan 22 20:08:48 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-23 (91 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
  SourcePackage: fwupd
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-10 (11 days ago)

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