Trouble installing ZFS in archlinux kernel 3.6.3-1-ARCH

Question

I've been trying to install ZFS on my system, and i can't get past a building error for SPL, here is my install output:
==> Downloading zfs PKGBUILD from AUR...
x zfs_preempt.patch
x zfs.install
x PKGBUILD
Comment by: modular on Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:09:04 +0000
@demizer
I don't/won't run ZFS as a root file system. I'm getting the following build error:
http://pastebin.com/ZcWiaViK
Comment by: demizer on Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:11:54 +0000
@modular, You're trying to build with the 3.6.2 kernel. The current version (rc11) does not work with the 3.6.2 kernel. If you want to use it, you will have to downgrade to the 3.5.6 kernel (linux and linux-headers). https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_Packages
Thanks!
Comment by: MilanKnizek on Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:07:19 +0000
@demizer: there still seemed to be a problem during upgrading - zfs/spl requires kernel of certain version (hard-coded) and this blocks the upgrade (the old installed zfs/spl requires the old kernel and kernel can't be upgraded w/o breaking dependency of zfs/spl and therefore build of the new zfs/spl fails, too).
So far, I have had to remove zpl/spl, upgrade kernel, rebuild + install spl/zfs and manually run depmod against the new kernel (i.e. the postinst: depmod -a does not work until next reboot) and only then reboot to load the new kernel zfs modules successfully.
That is quite clumsy and error-prone - I hope it will be resolved via DMKS.
Comment by: srf21c on Sun, 28 Oct 2012 04:00:31 +0000
All, if you're suffering zfs kernel upgrade pain fatigue, seriously consider going with the LTS (long term support) kernel. I just successfully built zfs on a system that I switched to the linux-lts 3.0.48-1. All you have to do is install the linux-lts and linux-lts-headers packages, reboot to the lts kernel, and change any instances of depends= or makedepends= lines in the package build file like so:
Before:
depends=('linux=3.5' "spl=${pkgver}" "zfs-utils=${pkgver}")
makedepends=('linux-headers=3.5')
After:
depends=('linux-lts=3.0' "spl=${pkgver}" "zfs-utils=${pkgver}")
makedepends=('linux-lts-headers=3.0')
Then build and install each package in this order: spl-utils,spl,zfs-utils,zfs.
Worked like a champ for me.
Comment by: stoone on Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:09:29 +0000
If you keep the linux, and linux-headers packages while using the LTS you don't need to modify the PKGBUILDs. Because the checks will pass but it will build the packages to your current runnning kernel.
Comment by: demizer on Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:56:27 +0000
Hey everybody, just a quick update. The new build tool I have been working on is now in master, https://github.com/demizer/aur-zfs. With it you can build and package two different groups of packages one for aur and one for split. Again, building the split packages is more efficient. I still have a lot of work to be done, but it is progressing. I will be adding git, dkms, and lts packages after I setup my repo. My next step is to add unofficial repository support to my build tool so I can easily setup a repo with precompiled binaries. I will be hosting the repo on my website at http://demizerone.com/archzfs. Initially it will only be for 64bit code since the ZOL FAQ states that ZOL is very unstable with 32bit code due to memory management differences in Solaris and Linux. I will notify you all in the future when that is ready to go.
@MilanKnizek, Yes updating is a pain. ZFS itself is hard-coded to linux versions at build time. The ZFS build tool puts the modules in "/usr/lib/modules/3.5.6-1-ARCH/addon/zfs/", and this the primary reason it has to be rebuilt each upgrade, even minor point releases. Nvidia for example puts their module in "/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.5-ARCH/", so minor point releases are still good and the nvidia package doesn't need to be re-installed. A possible reason for ZOL to be hard-coded like this because ZOL is still technically very beta code.
I do have a question for the community, does anyone use ZFS on a 32bit system?
Thanks!
First Submitted: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:50:51 +0000
zfs 0.6.0_rc11-2
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n
==> zfs dependencies:
- linux>=3.5 (already installed)
- linux-headers>=3.5 (already installed)
- spl>=0.6.0_rc11 (building from AUR)
- zfs-utils>=0.6.0_rc11 (building from AUR)
==> Edit zfs.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ---------------------------------------
n
==> Continue building zfs ? [Y/n]
==> -----------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Install or build missing dependencies for zfs:
==> Downloading spl PKGBUILD from AUR...
x spl.install
x PKGBUILD
Comment by: timemaster on Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:42:32 +0000
I am not able to compile this package after the upgrade to the 3.6 kernel. Anyone else ? any idea?
Comment by: mikers on Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:34:17 +0000
rc11 doesn't support Linux 3.6; there are some patches on GitHub that might apply against it (I've not done it myself), see:
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/pull/179
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/1039
Otherwise downgrade to Linux 3.5.x or linux-lts and wait for rc12.
Comment by: timemaster on Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:54:03 +0000
Yes, I saw that too late.
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/ee7913b644a2c812a249046f56eed39d1977d706
Comment by: demizer on Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:00:16 +0000
Looks like the patches have been merged, now we wait for rc12.
Comment by: vroomanj on Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:07:19 +0000
@demizer: 3.6 support is available in the master builds, which are stable but not officially released yet. Can't the build be updated to use the master tars?
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/tarball/master
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/tarball/master
Comment by: demizer on Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:51:42 +0000
@vroomanj, I plan on working on the git packages this weekend. All I have to figure out if it is going to be based on an actual git clone or if its just going to be the download links you provided. They are pretty much the same, but i'm not really clear what the Arch Package Guidelines say about this yet. Also, I don't think the current packages in AUR now should be based off of git master. They should be based off of the ZOL stable releases (rc10, rc11, ...). That's why I am making git packages so people can use them if they want to upgrade to the latest kernel and the stable release hasn't been made yet. As is the case currently.
First Submitted: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:34:31 +0000
spl 0.6.0_rc11-2
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n
==> spl dependencies:
- linux>=3.5 (already installed)
- spl-utils>=0.6.0_rc11 (already installed)
- linux-headers>=3.5 (already installed)
==> Edit spl.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ---------------------------------------
==> n
==> Continue building spl ? [Y/n]
==> -----------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Making package: spl 0.6.0_rc11-2 (Tue Oct 30 11:34:13 CET 2012)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Downloading spl-0.6.0-rc11.tar.gz...
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==> Validating source files with md5sums...
spl-0.6.0-rc11.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
-> Extracting spl-0.6.0-rc11.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting build()...
configure.ac:34: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated. For more info, see:
configure.ac:34: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE-invocation
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checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
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checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for ar... ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
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checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
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checking spl config... kernel
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config.status: creating spl.release
config.status: creating dkms.conf
config.status: creating spl_config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
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make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11'
Making all in module
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module'
make -C /usr/src/linux-3.6.3-1-ARCH SUBDIRS=`pwd` CONFIG_SPL=m modules
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.6.3-1-ARCH'
CC [M] /tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-debug.o
CC [M] /tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-proc.o
CC [M] /tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-kmem.o
CC [M] /tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-thread.o
CC [M] /tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-taskq.o
CC [M] /tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-rwlock.o
CC [M] /tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-vnode.o
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-vnode.c: In function 'vn_remove':
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-vnode.c:327:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'path_lookup' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[5]: *** [/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl/../../module/spl/spl-vnode.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module/spl] Error 2
make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.6.3-1-ARCH'
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11/module'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-alex/aur-spl/src/spl-0.6.0-rc11'
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build spl.
==> Restart building spl ? [y/N]
==> ----------------------------
... i'm stuck here, can anyone help me with this one? please !

Answer 1

Did you read the comments, either on the AUR page or in the output that you posted? They explain it.