Zfs: Installing zfs from the repo will not build on the kernel

Created on 3 Feb 2020 · 6Comments · Source: openzfs/zfs

System information

Type | Version/Name
--- | ---
Distribution Name | Debian (Parrot OS)
Distribution Version | Testing
Linux Kernel | 5.4.0-1parrot1-amd64
Architecture | x86_64
ZFS Version | 0.8.3-1
SPL Version | 0.8.3-1

Describe the problem you're observing

NR_FILE_PAGES in either node_stat_item or zone_stat_item: NOT FOUND
configure: error:
* None of the expected "global page state" interfaces were detected.
This may be because your kernel version is newer than what is
supported, or you are using a patched custom kernel with
incompatible modifications.

ZFS Version: zfs-0.8.3-1
** Compatible Kernels: 2.6.32 - 5.4

Building module:
cleaning build area...(bad exit status: 2)
make -j4 KERNELRELEASE=5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64...(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/zfs/0.8.3/build/make.log for more information.

Describe how to reproduce the problem

#apt install linux-image-5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64 linux-headers-5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64 zfs-dkms zfs-initramfs

when trying to using dkms to build the module:

#dkms install -m zfs -v 0.8.3 -k 5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Running the pre_build script:
checking for gawk... gawk
checking metadata... META file
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
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checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
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checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
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checking kernel source directory... /lib/modules/5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64/build
checking kernel build directory... /lib/modules/5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64/build
checking kernel source version... 5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64
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checking whether modules can be built... yes
checking for kernel config option compatibility... done
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checking whether mutex_lock() is GPL-only... no
checking whether CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYM is disabled... yes
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checking whether fpu headers are available... asm/fpu/api.h
checking whether wait_queue_entry_t exists... yes
checking whether /dev/zfs minor is available... grep: /lib/modules/5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64/build/include/linux/miscdevice.h: No such file or directory
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checking whether DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() is available... no
checking for available kernel interfaces... done
checking whether access_ok() has 'type' parameter... no
checking whether global_node_page_state() exists... yes
checking whether global_zone_page_state() exists... yes
checking whether enum node_stat_item contains NR_FILE_PAGES... no
checking whether enum node_stat_item contains NR_INACTIVE_ANON... no
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checking whether enum zone_stat_item contains NR_FILE_PAGES... no
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checking whether global_page_state enums are sane... no
NR_FILE_PAGES in either node_stat_item or zone_stat_item: NOT FOUND
configure: error:
None of the expected "global page state" interfaces were detected.
This may be because your kernel version is newer than what is
supported, or you are using a patched custom kernel with
incompatible modifications.

ZFS Version: zfs-0.8.3-1
** Compatible Kernels: 2.6.32 - 5.4

Include any warning/errors/backtraces from the system logs

#cat /var/lib/dkms/zfs/0.8.3/build/make.log
DKMS make.log for zfs-0.8.3 for kernel 5.4.0-3parrot1-amd64 (x86_64)
Mon 3 Feb 18:51:46 GMT 2020
make: * No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Packaging Building

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johnnyjacq16

All 6 comments

Same here on 5.5.1. Downgraded to linux 5.4.15 and was able to build zfs 0.8.3.

bobberb on 3 Feb 2020

Also a problem on Debian 10 using backports (actually Linux Mint LDME 4).

prensing on 18 Apr 2020

👍1

The Debian bug tracker is full of similar reports. This issue is reproducible on recent kernels from buster-backports (10), bullseye (11), sid (unstable), but I didn't try experimental yet. I can confirm this on ZFS 0.8.3, 0.8.4 and current master.

It seems like Debian made some changes in how they split kernel headers. They always put some headers in arch-specific package, e.g. linux-headers-<version>-amd64. And some headers in arch-neutral package, e.g. linux-headers-<version>-common. But now they seem to be moved some headers required by ZFS to a common package and ZFS doesn't find them.

So as for current sid kernel there is following dirs:

/usr/src/linux-headers-5.6.0-1-amd64
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.6.0-1-common

A simple, but a dirty workaround is just to copy headers from common dir to arch specific one, e.g. amd64:

sudo rsync -a /usr/src/linux-headers-5.6.0-1-common/ /usr/src/linux-headers-5.6.0-1-amd64/

yurikoles on 23 May 2020

👍1

@yurikoles also what you can do isln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-common/include/linux/ /usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-amd64/include/linux however these are temparary fixes

johnnyjacq16 on 3 Jul 2020

👍1

@behlendorf @ahrens there is a zfs compilation issue on debian and debian based distros when installing zfs from the repo this is due to the headers files being installed by two different packages into two different locations show below:

header pacakges are that required:
apt list linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-*
Listing... Done
linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-amd64/now 5.5.17-1kali1 amd64 [installed,local]
linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-common/now 5.5.17-1kali1 all [installed,local]

Package linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-amd64 is installed in the location below:
dpkg -L linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-amd64
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-amd64

Package linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-common is installed in the location below:
dpkg -L linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-common
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.0-kali2-common

The bug is also on debian bug tracker shown by @yurikoles the same issue can be viewed on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=2;bug=958121;filename=dkms.log;msg=5 scroll to the botom of the page.

johnnyjacq16 on 3 Jul 2020

This helped me get ZFS 084 running on Linux Mint LMDE, so let me provide the full process:

Install updated kernel:

apt install linux-headers-4.19.0-10-amd64 linux-image-4.19.0-10-amd64-dbg \
linux-image-amd64 linux-image-4.19.0-10-amd64

' reboot ' into new kernel

Using midnight commander makes this easy:

mc /usr/src
( cd down into /usr/src/linux-headers-4.19.0-10-common/include/linux ) on the left pane

^O to shell prompt
thisd=$PWD

^O back to MC, then
Tab to 2nd pane

( cd into /usr/src/linux-headers-4.19.0-10-amd64/include )
^O again
ln -sfn $thisd .

Expected result:

/usr/src/linux-headers-4.19.0-10-amd64/include # ls -l
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root    50 Sep 24 00:43 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   138 Sep 24 00:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 735 root root 36864 Sep 24 00:13 config
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   146 Sep 24 00:13 generated
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    53 Sep 24 00:43 linux -> /usr/src/linux-headers-4.19.0-10-common/include/linux

At this point you should be able to ' apt update; apt-get -t buster-backports install zfs-dkms '

If you then get an error:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zfs-zed:
 zfs-zed depends on zfsutils-linux (>= 0.8.4-2~bpo10+1); however:
  Package zfsutils-linux is not configured yet.

FIX:
apt-get -f install

zpool version
zfs-0.8.4-2~bpo10+1 / zfs-kmod-0.8.4-2~bpo10+1