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zfs-linux package

Upgrading zfs-initramfs breaks booting from a zfs root

Bug #1673197 reported by Michał Sawicz
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zfs-linux (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
zfs-linux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Aron Xu

Bug Description

Upgrading to zfs-initramfs 0.6.5.9-4ubuntu1 breaks my boot.

I've EFI and a small ext2 boot partition, and the rest of my SDD is a zfs pool. After upgrade I'm dropped in the initramfs shell and no zpools are available.

Downgrading to 0.6.5.8-0ubuntu9 makes it boot again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: zfs-initramfs 0.6.5.9-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-11.13-generic 4.10.1
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Wed Mar 15 18:29:04 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-06 (312 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: zfs-linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2016-11-22 (113 days ago)

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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :
description: updated
Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)
tags: added: kernel-key
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Aron Xu (happyaron) wrote :

I'm setting up a test environment to debug this.

Changed in zfs-linux (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Aron Xu (happyaron)
status: New → In Progress
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Randall Leeds (randall-leeds) wrote :

I don't know what changed, but adding `boot=zfs` to my grub kernel parameters fixes this. I never needed it in the past and `update-grub` doesn't create it.

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Randall Leeds (randall-leeds) wrote :

I just happened to find that parameter mentioned in some ZFS root setup guides and tried it as a wild guess.

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Randall Leeds (randall-leeds) wrote :

Maybe this is some regression in zfs-initramfs?

I see some mention of this in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-initramfs/+bug/1530953
I don

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Randall Leeds (randall-leeds) wrote :

My last comment got cut off. I was going to say I don't see /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf.d/zfs on my filesystem.

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote :

/usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf.d/zfs has disappeared from the package in zesty. That is the cause of this regression.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in zfs-linux (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Aron Xu (happyaron)
Changed in zfs-linux (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package zfs-linux - 0.6.5.9-5ubuntu1

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zfs-linux (0.6.5.9-5ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Resynchronize with Debian, remianing changes:
    - Load zfs module unconditionally for zesty

 -- Aron Xu <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:24:41 +0800

Changed in zfs-linux (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Randall Leeds (randall-leeds) wrote :

Confirmed fixed over here. Thanks for the fast turnaround!

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