Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update
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I'm trying to figure out how to get a history list of my most recent
dnf upgrade --refresh.The reason I am trying to find out everything that happened is becasue after I ran that above command, I rebooted. Then at the Dell splash screen pre-BIOS post, it said it was updating my firmware. I did not download or attempt to install any Dell BIOS update, so I want to see if it came from Fedora updates... or where did it come from? Could it be something Dell pushed out?
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I had a microcode update applied by Korora 26 during the week, perhaps that?
Check dnf history?
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Do you have fwupdatemgr installed?
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@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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@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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dnf list installed | grep micro*
The package is namedmicrocode_ctli think.
Just checking a fedora 27 vm. -
@momurda said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
dnf list installed | grep micro*
The package is namedmicrocode_ctli 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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Pictures in order:
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@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
Pictures in order:
Does Dell have a way to auto update itself directly?
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
@tim_g said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
Pictures in order:
Does Dell have a way to auto update itself directly?
No that I know of.
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Do you have software center?
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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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@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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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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@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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@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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@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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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 -
@black3dynamite said in Fedora 27 Update History; surprise BIOS update:
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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@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 systemsI'll check in a few minutes.
