Description of problem: Can't upgrade from F27->28 because of shim install failure using Gnome Package Manager Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-27 with all available updates applied How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Gnome Package Manager, go to the Updates tab 2. Click on download Fedora 28 upgrade 3. This fails with a shim error. Actual results: journald shows the following failures: failed to call gs_plugin_app_upgrade_download on packagekit-upgrade: Error running transaction: installing package shim-x64-13-4.x86_64 needs 583680 on the /boot/efi filesystem May 01 20:56:26 achiles.home.lan PackageKit[1254]: upgrade-system transaction /6576_eedadcce from uid 1000 finished with failed after 4727ms May 01 20:56:26 achiles.home.lan gnome-software[2023]: failed to call gs_plugin_app_upgrade_download on packagekit-upgrade: Error running transaction: installing package shim-x64-13-4.x86_64 needs 583680 on the /boot/efi filesystem lines 3167-3199/3199 (END) Expected results: Upgrade should work seamlessly, but it doesn't. Additional info:
Ok - so this was (as indicated by the error message - doh!) due to a lack of space on the autocreated MS EFI partition (100MB). So I had to create a new EFI partition (have setup a 1GB partition now - once bitten etc...). This turned out to be fairly simple - despite the lack of documentation online. It required the following steps: 1. Create a 1GB partition to hold the new ESP - format it as FAT32. 2. Copy your current EFI to the new partition - I used rsync for this. 3. Update /etc/fstab with the new UUID (use blkid to find this information) 3. Update your firmware to hand off to grub on the new partition sudo efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 8 -l '\EFI\fedora\shim.efi' -L Fedora 4. Make a note of the old partition entry - you'll need this to clean-up: sudo efibootmgr -v 5. Use efibootmgr to remove the old partition entry sudo efibootmgr -b <hex_entry_code> -B You're done. Rebooting the system should now boot all entries from your new EFI partition. Your old EFI partition can now be deleted/reclaimed into another partition.
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