LVFS Triaged Issue: NixOS: Unwriteable EFI system partition

Tags

"DistroId"= "nixos"
"UpdateError" = "UEFI firmware update*failed: Read-only file system*"
"FwupdVersion" < "1.0.6"

Summary:

NixOS currently configures the EFI system partition to the incorrect location. Updates will not pass.

Solution:

This is a packaging error that needs to be resolved by NixOS packagers.

More details can be found in these references:

• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/35065
• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/39386
• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/38935