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[SOLVED] What do I do for this? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Cornflake@pawb.social to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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Just installed updates from Pacman, not even touching the AUR. Now when I reboot machine, this happens. It just reboots itself and the cycle repeats itself. Any solutions?

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this may be relevant to your interests

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=311123

I'd suggest disabling the TPM in bios if you don't need it.

[–] Cornflake@pawb.social 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Disabling TPM fixed my issue! Thanks!

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Update [Solved] in the title.

[–] lemonhead2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I had the same problem. just generate /etc/machine-id from a chroot

[+] yaroto98@lemmy.world -26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

TPM is a marketing gimmick disguised as a security feature to sell more hardware and force AI adoption. Disabling it is your civic duty. Disabling it can also boost speeds!

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TPM is not a marketing gimmick, it's a legitimate security feature that helps combat modern types of viruses.

Microsoft is a shit company that used TPM nonsense to justify a wave of forced obsolescence, but that does not mean that TPM is inherently bad at all, it is not.

Disabling it can boost some speeds, yes, but that statement is true of disabling any feature that runs code... Because the device is doing less. Closing programs does the same thing, but then programs aren't running.... So.

TPM has nothing to do with AI adoption, again that's Microsoft being a shit company.

The spirit of your anger is valid but it's misdirected. Don't trash TPM because we want people to understand that it's a good thing to have if you can enable it for your use case and want to accept any trade offs. Threats evolve and security evolves with it; TPM is part of that.

Advocating against TPM is analogous to being anti-vax.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vaccines work and are tested rigorously.

TPMs are not even close to that and UEFI implementations using them are then even worse and often next to disfunctional if used for any other case then "I use the pre-installed MS keys with a MS product", up to bricking devices. And they are this bad by design.

So no. The comparison between advocating against an often low quality product used in combination with an even worse implementation accessing it, just because Microsoft pushed for that shit as a marketing gimmick (thus verndors often only test that subset of the functionality properly) and anti-vaxxers is actually insane.

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TPMs are exceptionally effective at preventing the threats they are designed to mitigate, when used correctly.

A TPM is a device specific hardware security module (HSM). HSMs are a key component of modern enterprise security. You might think that's far removed from your PC at home, but it's a difference of scale, not of kind.

Anti-vaxxers don't understand the science behind how vaccines work and they dislike how vaccines are implemented, in their perception of society.

If you dislike TPMs on face value it's because you also don't understand the science behind how it works and you dislike how it's implemented, into your perception of society.

Microsoft is a PoS company for mandating TPM compatibility as a baseline for their OS to function. It's a security feature, and not one that's important enough at this juncture to be REQUIRED for an everyday consumer device. It has trade offs. It can be argued that the trade offs aren't worth it at this juncture.

But, as I said, TPM is not inherently bad. It's inherently good, in fact - but shitty implementation is shitty.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You speak about the design of TPMs. I speak about the actual reality of mediocre and sometimes defective hardware and the even worse and often defective software implementations (often already on the bios/UEFI level) used in conjunction.

Sadly that's not even close to the same thing, in parts because a certain "PoS company" plays a huge part in it.

Or to stick with your picture: Your argument is as sane as supporting any vaccine, no matter its effectiveness, because vaccines in general are a very good thing. Fortunately there are national health offices evaluating effectiveness and benefit/drawback comparisons for vaccines. Unfortunately the "same" evaluation for hardware is done by big tech under the premise of how to make the most money.

If you dislike TPMs on face value it’s because you also don’t understand the science behind how it works

No, i don't "dislike" anything. I simply talked about practical reality instead of theoretic ideal.

HSMs are a key component of modern enterprise security.

I feel like you would not believe the real amount of shitty enterprise security were the pinnacle of TPM use is requiring active Secure Boot (with pre-installed MS keys of course) and managing their Office365 licensing...

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure, bad implementation is bad. Hardware, software - whether lazy, ignorant, malicious, negligent, whatever. It's bad, and we agree on that.

My analogous argument is NOT that you should SUPPORT any vaccine no matter what, it is that you should not oppose ALL vaccines because they can be dangerous to some.

The original guy I replied to was like "it's your civic duty to disable TPM" and went on an unhinged rant about how it's about forcing AI integration or something. Completely ridiculous claims that show a completely ignorant and emotionally charged opinion that I equate to an anti vax type of line of reasoning.

Repeatedly I've criticized bad implementation of TPMs and specified that they're effective only when used correctly.

Sounds like you and I agree on pretty much all points but you're getting wrapped around the axle on an analogy that I made to highlight the absurdity of a different person's statement, and then you're straw manning it to boot.

The reality is that there's a need for TPMs in systems these days as we get more and more reliant on devices to do literally everything for us, and bad actors find new ways to threaten the baskets we put all our eggs in. We should very much so criticize bad conduct and highlight what is bad, but not poison the well on the technology itself. That doesn't help. The conversation has nuance and watering it down to "TPM bad because Microsoft" completely misses the mark.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

No one listen to this person

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what Microsoft is using it for now, but not what it does.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You are confusing "what it should do" with "what it does". Vendors are trying to save money like everyone else and will regularly provide defective hardware or software implementations that were never properly tested for any actual functionality beyond said "MS marketing gimmick"

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It works on my Linux install. Will halt boot if kernal changes or nvidia driver changes and you have not approved the mee keys.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"It works on my system" vs. "I bricked my device because the basic functionality to replace the pre-installed keys was broken or some idiot vendor had signed his hardware with that MS key" is still bad, even when it runs for the vast majority only using their system with pre-installed keys (those are not actually the ones needing the security and it really is just a marketing gimmick) while just a small minority aiming for security gets screwed by shitty implementations.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

The intent makes sense, it is a trust chain to ensure the system will only boot if it is not tempered with. We have it on android also, to prevent malicious Kernel and OS changes. Microsoft holding the keys signing is the shit part.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Disable TPM in bios and try to reboot

[–] Cornflake@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That was it! Thank you!!

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You may want to reenable the tpm if you choose to use it as keystore for encrypted disks

[–] b000rg@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Woah, what? I didn't know you could use the TPM that way. I've gotta look into this now.

[–] Cornflake@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Won't that just cause the boot loop again where it reboots because on my laptop Arch won't start with it enabled?

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

There's another underlying problem causing your tpm issue. You will need to resolve it first to use the tpm.

Disabling it was basically a work around