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SneakyLittleman

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Registered: 2022-03-08

Posts: 17

Secure boot, yay update broke my system - shim-signed download failure

Hey there,
I updated my secure boot system yesterday with yay and it said shim-signed couldn't be downloaded. Didn't make too much of it and rebooted.
Now, at boot, refind  (or shim or my bios, I don't know) complains about tempering with my system / boot / firmware (red warning) and won't boot.
I tried chrooting to retry the update, but shim-signed won't update in the chrooted environment & complains about the system not being booted with systemd (usb stick boot before chrooting).
Any solution to this mess?
Thanks.

Last edited by SneakyLittleman (2024-04-01 16:13:49)

ugjka

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Re: Secure boot, yay update broke my system - shim-signed download failure

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/shim-signed lists 2 sources and the first one return 404, perhaps yay isn't picking up the second one

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SneakyLittleman

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Registered: 2022-03-08

Posts: 17

Re: Secure boot, yay update broke my system - shim-signed download failure

yes, and the comments don't look good. Something is wrong with this package & breaks systems. I'll try to downgrade.

SneakyLittleman

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Registered: 2022-03-08

Posts: 17

Re: Secure boot, yay update broke my system - shim-signed download failure

It's fixed today (April 10) : the package shim-signed has been updated. Fixing my system was a bit of a pain, though:
- Disable secure boot in bios
- Boot an arch USB boot disk
- connect to the net
- mount / & /boot
- arch-chroot into the broken system
- su to normal user (can't yay as root)
- yay to update everything
- reboot
- enable secure boot in bios
- Profit

Last edited by SneakyLittleman (2024-04-09 15:07:38)