Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

[Ian Jackson]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
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Control: found -1 2.93-8
Control: found -1 2.96-7

I just encountered the lack of evivars when using fwupd to update my
laptop firmware from lvfs.

My workaround was to put this in /etc/fstab
 efivarfs        /sys/firmware/efi/efivars       efivarfs   defaults

but the suggestion by Greg Pearson is correct and IMO should be
applied to mountkernfs.  (I felt that Greg's descriptiohn was
sufficientlty clear to be worth calling a "patch".)

Dmitry wrote:

> Hi. As I see on my system, /sys/firmware/efi is now part of /sys:
> 
>  $ ls /sys/firmware/efi/
>  config_table
...
>  $ mount | grep efi
>  /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (

But, the relevant directory is /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. not
/sys/firmware/efi.  The fact that efivars exists in /sys/firmware/efi
doesn't tell us that the contents is available.

Empirically on this buster system, I needed to manually arrange for
the mounting of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars to get fwupd to work.

Steve McIntyre confirmed to me on irc that this is a separate
filesystem on bullseye too.  I looked at the source for sid's sysvinit
and its mountkernfs still lacks this.

I think it would be worth considering this fix for a stable update,
after bullseye is released.

Thanks,
Ian.

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