Ubuntu
shim package

  1. Bug #1921134
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1921134

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Harm van Bakel (hvbakel) wrote :

After installing shim-15.4-0ubuntu5 and shim-signed-1.40.5+15.4-0ubuntu5 on focal and rebooting, I noticed my /var/log/syslog was being flooded with the following messages from vboxdrv.sh:

Jun 28 21:33:52 ... vboxdrv.sh[7701]: Enter a password for Secure Boot. It will be asked again after a reboot.
Jun 28 21:33:52 ... vboxdrv.sh[7701]: Enter the same password again to verify you have typed it correctly.
Jun 28 21:33:52 ... vboxdrv.sh[7701]: Invalid password
Jun 28 21:33:52 ... vboxdrv.sh[7701]: The Secure Boot key you've entered is not valid. The password used must be
Jun 28 21:33:52 ... vboxdrv.sh[7701]: between 8 and 16 characters.

It doesn't look like the shim update plays nice with Virtualbox-6.1 installed from the Oracle repo. Reverting back to the focal-updates version fixes the issue.