Re: Bug#651720: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2012-11-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Control: reassign -1 src:grub-installer Control: found -1 1.83 Control: severity -1 grave Control: tags -1 + patch Hi, This issue relates to GNU/kFreeBSD installs with a ZFS root filesystem, but with a non-ZFS /boot partition. The previously attempted fix in partman-zfs would have worked for

Re: Bug#651720: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2012-11-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
found 651720 src:partman-zfs/23 thanks [adding debian-bsd@ back into Cc:] Hi! Generating grub.cfg ... Found kernel of FreeBSD: /boot/kfreebsd-9.0-2-amd64.gz Found kernel module directory: /lib/modules/9.0-2-amd64 ls: cannot access /boot/zfs/zpool.cache: No such file or directory Maybe the

Re: zfsutils migration (Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid)

2011-12-15 Thread Robert Millan
Version: 8.3~svn226546-6 In any case, it seems nobody has a strong objection against migrating zfsutils. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: zfsutils migration (Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid)

2011-12-14 Thread Robert Millan
El 13 de desembre de 2011 19:07, Arno Töll deb...@toell.net ha escrit: Note, I didn't find any /real/ problem when using zfsutils 8.3 with a 8.2 kernel. I didn't try it with 8.1 but I don't see why it would be different there. Well, zfs list fails with EINVAL on 8.1 kernel, and I recall seeing

Re: zfsutils migration (Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid)

2011-12-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 13/12/11 06:59, Robert Millan wrote: I guess we should allow it to migrate then? But I'm still worried about current Wheezy users being forced to upgrade to 9.0 and hitting problems like #651624. Haha, I've quite a headache understanding all the combinations. I'll list the ones I can

Re: zfsutils migration (Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid)

2011-12-13 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/13 Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org: But I'm still worried about current Wheezy users being forced to upgrade to 9.0 and hitting problems like #651624. Haha, I've quite a headache understanding all the combinations. Relieved to see I'm not alone on that ;-) A Squeeze ZFS user

Re: zfsutils migration (Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid)

2011-12-13 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On 13.12.2011 18:51, Robert Millan wrote: S1. upgrade to kfreebsd-8 8.2, and would need zfsutils 8.2 kfreebsd 8.2 is usable with zfsutils 8.1, they've got a different ZFS version but AFAICT they use the same ABI (14 vs 15). ... The only

Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/12 Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org: Looks like zfsutils 8.3 still has Breaks in place for 8.1/8.2 kernels, since 8.3~svn226546-3, so I guess it is safe to migrate to testing, and bug #648744 is unnecessary? This would force all ZFS users of kfreebsd 8.2 in Wheezy to upgrade to

Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2011-12-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/12/11 19:14, Robert Millan wrote: This would force all ZFS users of kfreebsd 8.2 in Wheezy to upgrade to 9.0. Ah, I didn't realise that -- with only one version of the zfsutils package in Wheezy, 8.3, the Break for kfreebsd = 8.2 wouldn't leave an installable zfsutils for anyone using

Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2011-12-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi again, On 12/12/11 19:14, Robert Millan wrote: This would force all ZFS users of kfreebsd 8.2 in Wheezy to upgrade to 9.0. I think we should wait for the release before doing this. OTOH if new installs are broken, that's a big problem too. Now that kfreebsd-9 is in testing, I tried to

Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/13 Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org: Ah, I didn't realise that -- with only one version of the zfsutils package in Wheezy, 8.3, the Break for kfreebsd = 8.2 wouldn't leave an installable zfsutils for anyone using those kernels. Right, it'd be put on hold. I'm unsure if there

zfsutils migration (Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid)

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Millan
(adding #648744 to CC) 2011/12/13 Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org: Now that kfreebsd-9 is in testing, I tried to install it using the latest businesscard d-i image.  It works fine, except there is no installable zfsutils for it in Wheezy yet, so #648744 is a really awkward problem. I

new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Millan
My current summary: 1- kfreebsd-8 images can't currently be used to install *anything* when zfsutils-udeb 8.3 is being used, i.e. when they fetch their packages from sid. It seems the default is still zfsutils-udeb 8.2 for debian-cd images (netinst, businesscard) but not for netboot. 2-

Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Millan
Package: zfsutils Version: 8.3~svn226546-6 2011/12/11 Robert Millan r...@debian.org:    2.2- zfsutils 8.2 in /target with a kfreebsd-9 runtime breaks grub-install (even if zfsutils-udeb is 8.3). Will be fixed when zfsutils 8.3 migrates. Actually, this is much worse. Even 8.3 zfsutils (or

Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Millan
Package: partman-zfs Severity: grave 2011/12/11 Robert Millan r...@debian.org:    2.3- /boot/zfs/zpool.cache is NOT present!! No idea why this happens, but potentially it could also break installed systems (since they attempt to boot using outdated /boot/zfs/zpool.cache that was generated

Re: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/11 Robert Millan r...@debian.org: 1- kfreebsd-8 images can't currently be used to install *anything* when zfsutils-udeb 8.3 is being used, i.e. when they fetch their packages from sid.  It seems the default is still zfsutils-udeb 8.2 for debian-cd images (netinst, businesscard) but not