[Bug 1928434] Re: shim-signed does not boot on EFI 2.40 by Apple

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package shim - 15.4-0ubuntu5

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shim (15.4-0ubuntu5) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild in hirsute to get a more stable target to keep shim reproducible
    for a longer time.

shim (15.4-0ubuntu3) impish; urgency=medium

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Use -Zxz compression, for compatibility with dpkg in older releases.
    LP: #1925673

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Stop addending vendor dbx to MokListXRT during MokListX mirroring. This
    is causing systems to run out of EFI storage space, or just hang up
    when trying to write it (LP: #1924605) (LP: #1928434)
  * Further relax the check for variable mirroring on non-secureboot systems
    avoiding boot failures on out of space conditons (pull request #372)

  [ Seth Forshee ]
  * Don't unhook ExitBootServices() when EBS protection is disabled (LP: #1931136)
    (pull request #378)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <juliank at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:52:45
+0200

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

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Title:
  shim-signed does not boot on EFI 2.40 by Apple

Status in shim package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in shim-signed package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in shim source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in shim-signed source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in shim source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in shim-signed source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in shim source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released
Status in shim-signed source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Booting MacBook is broken

  [Test plan]
  We don't have a test plan per se to verify this bug, but the shim fix has been tested. Hard to verify those bugs :(

  [Where problems could occur]
  We disable mirroring of vendor dbx into MokListXRT EFI variable, so mokutil is not able to read the vendor dbx anymore. Other things might not be able to do so either; we don't believe we've been using it so far, though.

  [Original bug report]
  Hi,

  I have a MacBookPro14,3. After upgrade to Ubuntu 21.04 it failed to boot.
  At first I thought I'm affected by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/+bug/1925010.

  But my MacBook has newer efi Version and the fixed version of shim-
  signed is not solving my issues.

  >sudo dmesg | grep EFI
  [    0.000000] efi: EFI v2.40 by Apple
  [    0.011978] ACPI: UEFI 0x000000007AF7D000 000042 (v01 INTEL  EDK2     00000002      01000013)
  [    0.012029] ACPI: Reserving UEFI table memory at [mem 0x7af7d000-0x7af7d041]
  [    0.411423] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device
  [    0.418914] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
  [    2.696996] fb0: switching to amdgpudrmfb from EFI VGA

  I reinstalled Ubuntu 21.04 from scratch and updated all packages during installation.
  The reboot failed. I hear the apple start sound and then an endless repeating echo.
  I've chrooted inside my system and verified that shim-signed 1.47+15.4-0ubuntu2 is installed.

  The suggested workaround from the other bug works (I can normally boot afterwards):
  /boot/efi/EFI# cp -b ubuntu/grubx64.efi ubuntu/shimx64.efi
  /boot/efi/EFI# cp -b ubuntu/grubx64.efi BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

  "sudo apt reinstall shim-signed" reliable breaks my macbook again.

  Is there anything I can do to help solving this issue? What do you
  need?

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