Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update

momurda

dnf list installed | grep micro*
The package is named microcode_ctl i think.
Just checking a fedora 27 vm.

Obsolesce

@momurda said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

dnf list installed | grep micro*
The package is named microcode_ctl i think.
Just checking a fedora 27 vm.

Yes I have that, but that was on before the BIOS update.

Here's what it did:

Obsolesce

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black3dynamite

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

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Does Dell have a way to auto update itself directly?

dbeato

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

Pictures in order:

Does Dell have a way to auto update itself directly?

No that I know of.

dbeato

Do you have software center?

Obsolesce

It's running Fedora 27 workstation. No specific software that I could see doing this. It runs a Win10 VM via KVM/QEMU, but I doubt that had anything to do with it.

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

Do you have software center?

Software center as in What? There's a app store thing butlilt in, but I don't use it. I use the CLI to update and to get software.

Obsolesce

I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

dbeato

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

And there is no fwupdate-efi package?

black3dynamite

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

It's running Fedora 27 workstation. No specific software that I could see doing this. It runs a Win10 VM via KVM/QEMU, but I doubt that had anything to do with it.

Unless you have a dell software on the win10 vm that can update the bios.

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

And there is no fwupdate-efi package?

Not that I'm aware of. I'll look again when I'm back at my desk.

black3dynamite

http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

sudo dnf search firmware-addon-dell
firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 : A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for: Dell systems

Obsolesce

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

I know you can do bios updates, but you have to set it up and do it. I did nothing. It's basically a default fedora 27 workstation install, with minor other software installed like team viewer, Firefox, and other useful such things.

Obsolesce

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

sudo dnf search firmware-addon-dell
firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 : A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for: Dell systems

I'll check in a few minutes.

black3dynamite

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

I know you can do bios updates, but you have to set it up and do it. I did nothing. It's basically a default fedora 27 workstation install, with minor other software installed like team viewer, Firefox, and other useful such things.

Did you by chance installed any Dell utilities packages that might include the ability to update BIOS?

Obsolesce

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

sudo dnf search firmware-addon-dell
firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 : A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for: Dell systems

This is not installed.

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

And there is no fwupdate-efi package?

Yes, this is installed.

Installed Packages
Name         : fwupdate-efi
Version      : 10
Release      : 1.fc27
Arch         : x86_64
Size         : 138 k
Source       : fwupdate-10-1.fc27.src.rpm
Repo         : @System
From repo    : updates
Summary      : UEFI binaries used by libfwup
URL          : https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate
License      : GPLv2+
Description  : UEFI binaries used by libfwup.

dbeato

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@dbeato said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

And there is no fwupdate-efi package?

Yes, this is installed.
Installed Packages
Name         : fwupdate-efi
Version      : 10
Release      : 1.fc27
Arch         : x86_64
Size         : 138 k
Source       : fwupdate-10-1.fc27.src.rpm
Repo         : @System
From repo    : updates
Summary      : UEFI binaries used by libfwup
URL          : https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate
License      : GPLv2+
Description  : UEFI binaries used by libfwup.

That is most likely the cause of the update.
With an update 10 days ago
https://github.com/rhboot/fwupdate/releases

JaredBusch

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@dbeato said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

And there is no fwupdate-efi package?

Yes, this is installed.

My Fedora 27 system does not have that installed.

But as usual, I did not click any extra packages on the right side menu during setup when I chose the Cinnamon desktop experience on the left hand menu.

[jbusch@dt-jared ~]$ sudo dnf list installed fwupdate*
[sudo] password for jbusch: 
Error: No matching Packages to list
[jbusch@dt-jared ~]$ sudo dnf install fwupdate-efi
Last metadata expiration check: 0:22:12 ago on Fri 19 Jan 2018 11:05:09 AM CST.
Dependencies resolved.
==================================================================================================================================
 Package                           Arch                       Version                           Repository                   Size
==================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 fwupdate-efi                      x86_64                     10-1.fc27                         updates                      59 k
Installing dependencies:
 fwupdate-libs                     x86_64                     10-1.fc27                         updates                      33 k
 libsmbios                         x86_64                     2.3.3-2.fc27                      updates                     211 k

Transaction Summary
==================================================================================================================================
Install  3 Packages

Total download size: 304 k
Installed size: 1.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Operation aborted.
[jbusch@dt-jared ~]$