Awesome script: installed w/beta Ubuntu 26.04 working well, remoteaccess not so much

[silverspr]

not able to generate-zbm. Do you figure its because 26.04 is untried? ?Thoughts thanks in advance.

No initramfs generator specified; using dracut
Creating ZFSBootMenu 3.1.0-13-g33da683 from kernel /boot/vmlinuz-7.0.0-14-generic
SPL (6eaeae3a) and system (314aa342) hostids do not match!
dracut[E]: Module 'systemd-networkd' depends on module 'systemd', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'dyn-netconf' depends on module 'systemd-networkd', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'systemd-battery-check' depends on module 'systemd', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'systemd-pcrextend' depends on module 'systemd', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'network' depends on module 'systemd-networkd', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'crypt-ssh' depends on module 'network', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'crypt-ssh' cannot be installed.
Failed to create /tmp/wLoj4N5umR/zfsbootmenu.img

[Sithuk]

The systemd reference is odd. I don't recall systemd being used in the boot files. Are you using the base script unmodified? Or have you changed it?

[silverspr]

nope haven't modified it...
same output on a fresh install with the remoteaccess set to yes (installed at boot). Might be something w/26.04?

[Sithuk]

Does the remoteaccess installation work if you set the remoteaccess variable to no, install the system as usual, then run the script with the "remoteaccess" option after the system is installed?

[silverspr]

no, sorry I should have been more specific: I tried both methods to activate remoteaccess and neither worked. Same error message as above when generating zbm.

[Sithuk]

I have duplicated your error. It looks like there has been a change in ubuntu 26.04 to a systemd based dracut. That is in conflict with the upstream zfsbootmenu non-systemd approach. I don't have a fix yet. Let me know if you get one.

Historic systemd conflict issues on the zfsbootmenu github:
zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu#81
zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu#267

[Sithuk]

I've discussed with the zfsbootmenu authors and it looks like the solution is to switch to their container based build system. That will take quite a while to implement and test. For now, continue to use 24.04 if you need remoteaccess.

zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu#813

[Sithuk]

I've updated the script to use zfsbootmenu's containerised build system. The system resolves package dependency issues such as the one with 26.04. Please can you test and let me know if it works?

[Sithuk]

I was able to duplicate the issue. I've updated the script. Let me know if that fixes it.

[silverspr]

I'm a no go..
keep getting ipv4 already assigned or duplicate ip, all ips were pinged prior to adding to script (ip's do not pre-exist)
tried 4+ times
no prompt at all...able to log in on server just not remotely. Tried changing ip: /etc/zfsbootmenu/cmdline.d/dracut-network.conf but no difference.

[Sithuk]

Both dhcp and static assignment (ipv4) are working for me. I edited /etc/zfsbootmenu/cmdline.d/dracut-network.conf to test the change and then re-ran "sudo bash /etc/zfsbootmenu/remote-ssh-build.sh"

[silverspr]

I have it running with the prompt...yay
must've been tired last night! Thanks for all your help and I have to say it again: AWESOME script

[Sithuk]

That’s good to hear. Thanks for letting me know.