No BIOS (EFI Firmware) Update through gnome software

Hi there,

I’m facing a new problem: Installing BIOS Updates for my Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen5 through Gnome-Software won’t work. After hitting “restart & update” it looks like it downloads the Updates, nothing in the journallog:

journal
Okt 31 22:46:16 rpm-ostree[5663]: Loaded sysroot
Okt 31 22:46:16 rpm-ostree[5663]: Locked sysroot
Okt 31 22:46:16 rpm-ostree[5663]: Initiated txn Upgrade for client(id:gnome-software dbus:1.216 unit:run-r2e96d58b3ee14bee94d6c69afba00fdb.scope uid:1000): /org/projectatomic/rpmostree1/fedora
Okt 31 22:46:16 rpm-ostree[5663]: Process [pid: 6002 uid: 1000 unit: user@1000.service] connected to transaction progress
Okt 31 22:46:18 systemd[1]: systemd-localed.service: Deactivated successfully.
Okt 31 22:46:18 audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-localed comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Okt 31 22:46:18 audit: BPF prog-id=132 op=UNLOAD
Okt 31 22:46:18 audit: BPF prog-id=131 op=UNLOAD
Okt 31 22:46:18 audit: BPF prog-id=130 op=UNLOAD
Okt 31 22:46:19 rpm-ostree[5663]: libostree pull from 'fedora' for fedora/41/x86_64/silverblue complete
                                                   security: GPG: commit 
                                                   security: SIGN: disabled http: TLS
                                                   non-delta: meta: 2 content: 0
                                                   transfer: secs: 3 size: 788 Bytes
Okt 31 22:46:19 rpm-ostree[5663]: 2 metadata, 0 content objects fetched; 788 B transferred in 3 seconds; 0 Bytes content written
Okt 31 22:46:22 rpm-ostree[5663]: Preparing pkg txn; enabled repos: ['fedora-cisco-openh264', 'updates', 'fedora', 'rpmfusion-free-updates', 'rpmfusion-free', 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates', 'rpmfusion-nonfree', 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm', 'google-chrome', 'rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver', 'rpmfusion-nonfree-steam', 'updates-archive'] solvables: 84490
Okt 31 22:46:22 rpm-ostree[5663]: Txn Upgrade on /org/projectatomic/rpmostree1/fedora successful
Okt 31 22:46:22 rpm-ostree[5663]: Unlocked sysroot
Okt 31 22:46:22 rpm-ostree[5663]: Process [pid: 6002 uid: 1000 unit: user@1000.service] disconnected from transaction progress
Okt 31 22:46:23 gnome-shell[2455]: endSessionDialog: No XDG_SESSION_ID, fetched from logind: 2
21:46:25:102 Gs  gs_app_get_cancellable: assertion 'GS_IS_APP (app)' failed

updating with fwupdmgr works flawlessly.

any ideas?

Added fwupd, gnome-software

@boredsquirrel thanks for adding the tags, I wasn’t aware of them.

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Might be good to file an issue upstream for GNOME Software.