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person-at-desk

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Registered: 2025-02-15

Posts: 1

(Clevo L141AU) fwupd.service fails to start

I would like to use fwupd to see if there are any firmware updates for the devices that I am using.

I installed using

 $ pacman -S fwupd 

However, once I run:

$ fwupdmgr get-devices

as instructed on the wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fwupd
The output is:

 Failed to connect to daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not activate remote peer 'org.freedesktop.fwupd': startup job failed

Running

$ systemctl status fwupd.service

I get:

× fwupd.service - Firmware update daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fwupd.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2025-02-15 15:43:47 CET; 7min ago
 Invocation: db2d0ddcafc14019a6fe4eb43f74d4a8
       Docs: https://fwupd.org/
    Process: 11166 ExecStart=/usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 11166 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Mem peak: 7.1M
        CPU: 70ms

feb 15 15:43:47 pasokon systemd[1]: Starting Firmware update daemon...
feb 15 15:43:47 pasokon fwupd[11166]: 14:43:47.232 FuPluginFlashrom     Cannot open file stream for /dev/mtd0
feb 15 15:43:47 pasokon fwupd[11166]: pcilib: Cannot map ecam region: Operation not permitted.
feb 15 15:43:47 pasokon systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
feb 15 15:43:47 pasokon systemd[1]: fwupd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
feb 15 15:43:47 pasokon systemd[1]: Failed to start Firmware update daemon.

I'm using a Clevo laptop very similar to the System76 Lemur pro 13.

This might be an upstream bug: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/8251, however, I'm not sure what the best course of action for me currently is.
Should I bump this Github issue?

The issue does not seem to be present on the wiki page.

I'm sorry if my post is a bit unstructured, this is the first time I'm posting to the Arch forums