[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#864348: zfs-dkms: Failed to start Mount ZFS filesystems - The ZFS modules are not loaded

[Sean Hanna]

Package: zfs-dkms
Version: 0.6.5.9-5
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

Dear Maintainer,

Installing ZFS on a (mostly) fresh install of stretch from the weekly non-free ISO image...

For some reason it's not automatic loading the zfs module on reboots after installation.

This leads to many errors in boot log such as:

 zfs-zed.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
 zfs-share.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
 Failed to start MOUNT ZFS filesystems.
 Failed to start ZFS file system shares.
 Failed to initialize libzfs.
 The ZFS modules are not loaded.
 Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.


I added a line for 'zfs' to /etc/modules and things are booting up just fine now.

P.S. I also had to workaround the /usr/bin/rm issue affecting ZFS with a 'ln -s /bin/rm /usr/bin/rm' but i dont believe that affects this issue.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages zfs-dkms depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.61
ii  dkms                   2.3-2
ii  lsb-release            9.20161125
ii  spl-dkms               0.6.5.9-1

Versions of packages zfs-dkms recommends:
ii  zfs-zed         0.6.5.9-5
ii  zfsutils-linux  0.6.5.9-5

zfs-dkms suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  zfs-dkms/stop-build-for-unknown-kernel: true
  zfs-dkms/stop-build-for-32bit-kernel: true
* zfs-dkms/note-incompatible-licenses: