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

[Mario Limonciello]

That's good news, it confirms memory leak in libsmbios causing the fwupd
crash is fixed.

The reason for the memory leak however the error string related to libsmbios failing to initialize.
So I'm pretty sure that remaining problem with the dell plugin is this: https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues/24
That's the last blocking issue for a new libsmbios release.

libsmbios itself has an extra debug output that it can activate though
to confirm that's the problem.

Can you run this?
# sudo LIBSMBIOS_C_DEBUG_OUTPUT_ALL=1 /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd -v

** Bug watch added: github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues #24
   https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues/24

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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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