466679 2023-03-01 20:49:20 +0000 Discover can't handle UEFI Secure Boot firmware updates ("THE INPUT IS NOT OF CABINET FORMAT" error) 2023-04-14 01:22:31 +0000 1 1 2 Applications Discover fwupd Backend 5.24.7 Ubuntu Linux RESOLVED DUPLICATE 468379 NOR major --- 0 dave.lindbergh plasma-bugs-null aleixpol miranda nate scott.beamer sharma.abhijeet2096 ternomashi 0 oldest_to_newest 2213092 0 dave.lindbergh 2023-03-01 20:49:20 +0000 SUMMARY Discover will report an available UEFI Secure Boot firmware update, but can't install it and doesn't offer any guidance as to how to install manually. If you try to install with Discover you get "THE INPUT IS NOT OF CABINET FORMAT". Since Discover is advertised as being the central place to install & update software, it should ideally handle this or at least give guidance as to how to resolve. I found that the following installs the update - at minimum Discover should tell the user to do this: sudo fwupdmgr refresh sudo fwupdmgr update Then reboot when requested. Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 22.04 LTS 2213418 1 nate 2023-03-02 20:11:37 +0000 So `sudo fwupdmgr update` works? Or does that fail too? 2213419 2 dave.lindbergh 2023-03-02 20:12:55 +0000 sudo fwupdmgr update worked for me. 2214158 3 ternomashi 2023-03-05 23:14:02 +0000 This bug also affects me. It seems that it was reported recently in many places, e.g.: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1453959/getting-the-input-is-not-of-cabinet-format-on-discover https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?329903-Error-upgrading-Dell-laptop-firmware https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/currently-supported-releases/kubuntu-22-04-jammy-jellyfish/software-support-be/668585-lenovo-system-firmware-update-will-not-install My configuration: Kubuntu 22.10 KDE 5.27.2 2217250 4 ternomashi 2023-03-18 18:12:39 +0000 On laptop Samsung NP670 there is another error message: "failed to write data to efivarfs: Error writing to file descriptor: Invalid argument". I can also confirm that the problem with "THE INPUT IS NOT OF CABINET FORMAT" can be seen on HP desktop PC UEFI update. 2222671 5 aleixpol 2023-04-14 01:22:31 +0000 Pretty sure it's the same issue. Somebody who can reproduce, please try fresh 5.27 branch and report back if the issue is not indeed solved. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 468379 ***