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    • A
      aidan_walsh
      last edited by aidan_walsh

      I had a microcode update applied by Korora 26 during the week, perhaps that?

      Check dnf history?

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        aidan_walsh
        last edited by

        Do you have fwupdatemgr installed?

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          Obsolesce @aidan_walsh
          last edited by

          @aidan_walsh said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

          Do you have fwupdatemgr installed?

          It's nothing I installed. Typing that in results in command not found... so I assume not.

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            Obsolesce @aidan_walsh
            last edited by

            @aidan_walsh said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

            I had a microcode update applied by Korora 26 during the week, perhaps that?

            Check dnf history?

            Yeah dnf history shows my command/install history. But I don't know how to get it to show everything that was updated.

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            • momurdaM
              momurda
              last edited by momurda

              dnf list installed | grep micro*
              The package is named microcode_ctl i think.
              Just checking a fedora 27 vm.

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                Obsolesce @momurda
                last edited by

                @momurda said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                dnf list installed | grep micro*
                The package is named microcode_ctl i think.
                Just checking a fedora 27 vm.

                Yes I have that, but that was on before the BIOS update.

                Here's what it did:

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                • ObsolesceO
                  Obsolesce
                  last edited by Obsolesce

                  Pictures in order:

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                  0_1516379619245_28b231e1-4f93-4b58-9c70-91cf67069cbb-image.png

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite @Obsolesce
                    last edited by

                    @tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                    Pictures in order:

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                    0_1516379619245_28b231e1-4f93-4b58-9c70-91cf67069cbb-image.png

                    Does Dell have a way to auto update itself directly?

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                    • dbeatoD
                      dbeato @black3dynamite
                      last edited by

                      @black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                      @tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                      Pictures in order:

                      0_1516379600879_bdb941ec-a37d-4c08-baf3-69a75941a685-image.png

                      0_1516379619245_28b231e1-4f93-4b58-9c70-91cf67069cbb-image.png

                      Does Dell have a way to auto update itself directly?

                      No that I know of.

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                      • dbeatoD
                        dbeato
                        last edited by

                        Do you have software center?

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                        • ObsolesceO
                          Obsolesce
                          last edited by

                          It's running Fedora 27 workstation. No specific software that I could see doing this. It runs a Win10 VM via KVM/QEMU, but I doubt that had anything to do with it.

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                            Obsolesce @dbeato
                            last edited by

                            @dbeato said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                            Do you have software center?

                            Software center as in What? There's a app store thing butlilt in, but I don't use it. I use the CLI to update and to get software.

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                            • ObsolesceO
                              Obsolesce
                              last edited by

                              I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

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                              • dbeatoD
                                dbeato @Obsolesce
                                last edited by

                                @tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                                I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

                                And there is no fwupdate-efi package?

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                                • black3dynamiteB
                                  black3dynamite @Obsolesce
                                  last edited by

                                  @tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                                  It's running Fedora 27 workstation. No specific software that I could see doing this. It runs a Win10 VM via KVM/QEMU, but I doubt that had anything to do with it.

                                  Unless you have a dell software on the win10 vm that can update the bios.

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                                  • ObsolesceO
                                    Obsolesce @dbeato
                                    last edited by

                                    @dbeato said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                                    @tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                                    I find this so strange. A BIOS update is something you do on purpose... this was a complete surprise and 100% not me.

                                    And there is no fwupdate-efi package?

                                    Not that I'm aware of. I'll look again when I'm back at my desk.

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                                    • black3dynamiteB
                                      black3dynamite
                                      last edited by black3dynamite

                                      http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

                                      sudo dnf search firmware-addon-dell
                                      firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 : A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for: Dell systems

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                                        Obsolesce @black3dynamite
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                                        @black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                                        http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

                                        I know you can do bios updates, but you have to set it up and do it. I did nothing. It's basically a default fedora 27 workstation install, with minor other software installed like team viewer, Firefox, and other useful such things.

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                                          Obsolesce @black3dynamite
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                                          @black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                                          http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

                                          sudo dnf search firmware-addon-dell
                                          firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 : A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for: Dell systems

                                          I'll check in a few minutes.

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                                          • black3dynamiteB
                                            black3dynamite @Obsolesce
                                            last edited by

                                            @tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                                            @black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:

                                            http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/

                                            I know you can do bios updates, but you have to set it up and do it. I did nothing. It's basically a default fedora 27 workstation install, with minor other software installed like team viewer, Firefox, and other useful such things.

                                            Did you by chance installed any Dell utilities packages that might include the ability to update BIOS?

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