[After FreeBSD update] OpenZFS: load /boot/modules/openzfs.ko … bzf_open: not a file – can't find 'kernel'

[grahamperrin]

0.4.0 (OD26)

FreeBSD installed whilst booted from 0.4.0 (OD26) in live mode. OS and packages updated.

OpenZFS installed, /boot/loader.conf edited, system restarted:

I'll start a snapshot of the virtual machine from before the restart, attempt to understand the issue …

[probonopd]

Things like this are the reson why I am not in favor of using pkg as a way to update the base system and would rather like to see the base system be contained in one single image that gets (binary delta) updated.

Please keep in mind that updating helloSystem with pkg is not a supported aspect at this time (= possible but entirely untested and not actively debugged).

[grahamperrin]

updating helloSystem with pkg is not a supported aspect at this time

👍

I'm currently installing from ports in a clean-ish non-helloSystem FreeBSD 12.2 to tell wheether the issue is helloSystem-specific …

[grahamperrin]

#125 (comment)

My bad:

sudo git -C /usr clone -o freebsd -b stable/12 --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/src.git src

Wrong branch! For 12.2-RELEASE-p3 it should have been:

sudo git -C /usr clone -o freebsd -b releng/12.2 --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/src.git src

Reference: https://matrix.to/#/!qZXgYtEIHagWHrEQQb:matrix.org/$1612705540454645SmOSn:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=t2bot.io

releng/12.2 or better yet, the specific commit on that which corresponds to -p3 (I don't know if RE have started doing proper tags on patch releases yet, but they need to start doing that)

[grahamperrin]

When I raised this incident, I did not realise that packages for 12.2 were built from 12.1 jails. That approach is ending.

From https://matrix.to/#/!qZXgYtEIHagWHrEQQb:matrix.org/$1612636778280808wSFLC:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=t2bot.io yesterday:

… the 12.x repo is built on 12.1 until after 12.1 is EOL, and then it's built on 12.2

… a full build takes nearly 4 days …

12.1 https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds/default:default:121amd64:563269:beefy6 began on Saturday 30th January, ran for around ninety-one hours:

• openzfs was not amongst the failures.

12.2 https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds/default:default:122amd64:563982:beefy6 began on Thursday 4th February, around eighty-seven hours elapsed:

• given the 12.1 success above and the 12.2 success below, it's reasonable to assume that this build will include sysutils/openzfs-kmod.

With sysutils/openzfs from the latest repo and sysutils/openzfs-kmod from ports:

• boot succeeds
• as far as I can tell, the opensolaris kernel module is not required.