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

[Mario Limonciello]

OK, so I think the upstream fixes committed in libsmbios can fix this.
Would you mind to help verify:

1) Move that library back in place
2) Undo the blacklist of the plugin
3) git clone https://github.com/dell/libsmbios
4) cd libsmbios
5) apt build-dep libsmbios (you might need to turn on the deb-src source in /etc/apt/sources.list)
6) ./pkg/mk-rel-deb.sh
7) dpkg -i dist/bionic/libsmbios2*.deb
8) Restart fwupd with verbose

Do step 8 a few times.

Assuming that works, I'm intending to get a new libsmbios release out
soon (still need to fix one more bug).

If it doesn't work still:
1) please upload a new crash report with that library in place.
2) You can rename the plugin again to prevent fwupd crashes until I have another test for you ready to go.

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

Status in fwupd package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libsmbios package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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