ACTIVATE_FIRMWARE(8)

📦 version 1.3.14, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 activate_firmware — the glow-up page 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to ACTIVATE_FIRMWARE(8), straight out of the Power Service Tools corner of your system. this is the man page that tells you how to activate a firmware image that's been updated concurrently — yes, concurrently, we love a parallel queen ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

activate_firmware — activates a firmware image that has been updated concurrently 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/usr/sbin/activate_firmware [-e [keyfile]]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one utility, one optional flag, infinite potential 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so when you run activate_firmware with no options at all, it does the thing: it causes a firmware image that has already been flashed to be activated concurrently. slay 💫

bestie listen — this utility gets invoked automatically when necessary, which means you should not be manually invoking it at the command line. like, it's giving "I have a team for this" energy. let the system handle it, ok? 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -e [keyfile] — when you use this option, the command either fetches the current Update Access Key expiry date, or sets the Update Access Key expiry date if <keyfile> is provided. fetch or set, your call, main character choice 🔥

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

every exit code has a story, and here are all of them, no gatekeeping 👑

  1. 0 — Success. we ate. 💖
  2. 1 — This platform does not support concurrent activation of firmware. not every platform is built for this lifestyle 😭
  3. 2 — There is no new firmware ready to activate. nothing to see here, nothing to activate 🫶
  4. 3 — You must have root authority to run this command. sorry babe, permissions are permissions 👑
  5. 4 — Hardware failure. the hardware is going through it 💀
  6. 5 — Memory/resource allocation error. the vibes ran out of room 🍓
  7. 6 — General error. a little of everything, a lot of nothing 🌸
  8. 7 — Error in case of getting UAK expiry date or setting UAK. the exact error description is written to stderr, so go read it, iykyk 🧚
  9. 8 — Parameter error when activating firmware. the parameters did not pass the vibe check 💜

so yeah, that's the whole page, fr fr. no cap, every flag and every exit code is right there. go forth and let the automation do its thing 🦋

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