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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:15:27 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: krpc: unbootable ZFS-on-root after major upgrade to 11.2
Message-ID:  <20181022141527.GF13668@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1d5236b8-0269-5dce-3f2e-e7b1910836c6@grosbein.net>
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:09:14PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 22.10.2018 21:03, Glen Barber wrote:
>=20
> t's strange that this is a 10.x vs 11.x issue.
> >>> I see that zfs has the krpc dependency since r193128.
> >>> And the call to xdrmem_create is there since r168404.
> >>
> >> You are right. I was mis-informed and have not verified enough a repor=
t from local user.
> >>
> >> Glen, maybe that errata record should be deleted. The problem is real =
but it is long-standing
> >> and present in 10.x too.
> >>
> >=20
> > Could you elaborate more on the failure case you originally reported
> > first?  If the problem is real, my feeling is that the errata entry
> > should stay, just worded differently to reflect the failure case here.
>=20
> zfs.ko depends on krpc.ko. The KRPC code in compiled in GENERIC kernel as=
 dependency
> of NFS client/server code. The problem arises if all of these are true:
>=20
> 1) a system uses custom kernel with NFS options removed;
> 2) there is no krpc.ko available due to MODULES_OVERRIDE excluding it;
> 3) the system boots off ZFS pool.
>=20
> In such case, loader cannot resolve dependency and fails to load zfs.ko
> and kernel fails to mount root breaking boot sequence.
>=20
>=20

So, if I understand correctly (and please correct me if I am wrong), the
majority of the text in the errata note is correct, however needs to be
tweaked to remove "upgrading from 10.x...".  Is this generally correct?

Glen


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