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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably because your hardware's firmware is up to date or there's nothing available.

It's rare that it's updated.

Check your journal or

systemctl status fwupd.service

fwupdmgr get-history

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No problem.

The only reason i know this is because systemd throws degraded warnings because fwupd keeps failing. On several machines. (Because DNS, proxies, VPN, etc.)

In xfce there's a panel tool called genmon I use.

I have 2 specifically for monitoring systemd status

First is just the status

systemctl is-system-running

The other lists the failed units using a script

#!/bin/sh
failedd (){ systemctl --failed | grep -o -E "●.{0,35}\<failed" 2>/dev/null }
echo $(failedd)

Mint cinnamon has a similar "spice" (panel plugin) that I also use.