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Christian
Asked: 2020-10-29 08:53:41 +0800 CST

Why can't I upgrade firmware on my Thinkpad after upgrade from 20.04 to 20.10?

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I upgraded my Thinkpad laptop from Ubuntu 20.04 to 20.10. All went well. However, there's now firmware updates available but when I try to apply them I get an error saying:

Unable to update "System Firmware": missing signed bootloader for secure boot: /usr/libexec/fwupd/efi/-fwupdx64.efi.signed can not be found

How do I fix this so I can update firmware? Shouldn't this be taken care of during the system upgrade?

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2 Answers

  1. Run the command apt install fwupd-signed and try install again.

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  2. I found the solution to this problem: For some reason a package called 'fwupd-signed' was not installed in 20.10 but must have been on 20.04 since I was able to upgrade firmware without problems. So the upgrade process from 20.04 to 20.10 left me without this package needed for firmware updates.

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