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Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

From "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails
Date 2017-10-26 06:30 +0200
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Greetings.  Your reply is completely nonresponsive to
the zfs kernel upgrade situation as it is today on debian.

Why did you bother?  It's weird.

I don't actually care very much.  I'm going to go back to
dumb extfs if required.  I'm just fishing for some sanity
here.

Thanks,
Russell

On 10/25/17 21:18, David Christensen wrote:
> On 10/25/17 19:42, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>>
>> This has been happening for over 2 weeks now:
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877694
>>
>> It has such cheerful effects as:
>>
>> root@knuth> zpool status
>> The ZFS modules are not loaded.
>> Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.
>>
>> The symptom displays via several ways like this:
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Deleting module version: 0.6.5.11
>> completely from the DKMS tree.
>> ------------------------------
>> Done.
>> Unpacking zfs-dkms (0.6.5.11-1) over (0.6.5.11-1) ...
>> Setting up zfs-dkms (0.6.5.11-1) ...
>> Loading new zfs-0.6.5.11 DKMS files...
>> Building for 4.13.0-1-amd64
>> Building initial module for 4.13.0-1-amd64
>> configure: error:
>>          *** Please make sure the kmod spl devel <kernel> package for 
>> your
>>          *** distribution is installed then try again.  If that fails you
>>          *** can specify the location of the spl objects with the
>>          *** '--with-spl-obj=PATH' option.
>> Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.13.0-1-amd64 
>> (x86_64)
>> Consult /var/lib/dkms/zfs/0.6.5.11/build/make.log for more information.
>>
>>
>>
>> So what are we supposed to do?  The system is up, network accessible,
>> and I'm pulling a current in time backup.  Is there a linux distro that
>> isn't broken for zfsonlinux distro kernel updates?  Otherwise a complete
>> reinstall back to the dumb world of ext4, as I need a metal 8 core box
>> for comparative testing.
> 
> If you want to debug ZOL and/or Linux, then build from source.
> 
> 
> If you want to use ZOL on Debian, use a supported Debian version and 
> supported ZOL binary packages:
> 
> https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Debian
> 
> Installation
> 
> For Debian Stretch, ZFS packages are included in contrib repository.
> 
> For Debian Jessie, ZFS packages are provided by backports.
> 
> Install kernel headers:
> 
> # apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
> 
> Install zfs packages:
> 
> # apt-get install zfs-dkms
> 
> If you want to boot from ZFS, you'll need zfs-initramfs package too:
> 
> # apt-get install zfs-initramfs
> 
> 
> David
> 

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debian zfs spl dkms build fails "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> - 2017-10-26 04:50 +0200
  Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-10-26 06:20 +0200
    Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> - 2017-10-26 06:30 +0200
      Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-10-26 07:40 +0200
        Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> - 2017-10-26 16:00 +0200
      Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-26 08:40 +0200

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