Re: Kernel 6.18 fist tests...

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

Hi All,

On 11/12/2025 18:20, Adolf Belka wrote:
> Hi Arne,
> 
> I have tried it out on a vm clone running CU199 Testing.
> 
> In the readme.txt file I think you meant to have
> 
> tar xvaf KERNEL-ARCHIV.tar.xz -C /
> 
> instead of
> 
> tar xvaf KERNEL-ARCHIV.tar.xz -C \
> 
> At least it only extracted for me with the / and not the \.
> 
> I then ran the dracut command and got the following messages.
> 
> sudo dracut --regenerate-all --force
> dracut[I]: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --kver=6.12.58-ipfire --force
> dracut[E]: Module 'btrfs' depends on module 'initqueue', which can't be installed
> dracut[E]: Module 'lvm' depends on module 'initqueue', which can't be installed
> dracut[E]: Module 'mdraid' depends on module 'initqueue', which can't be installed
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: modsign ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: i18n ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: btrfs ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: dm ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: kernel-modules-extra ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: lvm ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: mdraid ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: qemu ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: terminfo ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including module: base ***
> dracut[I]: *** Including modules done ***
> dracut[I]: *** Installing kernel module dependencies ***
> dracut[I]: *** Installing kernel module dependencies done ***
> dracut[I]: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
> dracut[I]: *** Resolving executable dependencies done ***
> dracut[I]: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
> dracut[I]: *** Constructing AuthenticAMD.bin ***
> dracut[I]: *** Constructing GenuineIntel.bin ***
> dracut[I]: *** Store current command line parameters ***
> dracut[I]: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-6.12.58-ipfire.img.tmp' ***
> dracut[I]: *** Hardlinking files ***
> dracut[I]: *** Hardlinking files done ***
> 
> 
> Not sure about the "module 'initqueue', which can't be installed" bits.
> 
> After the above last line I then got
> 
> cp: error writing '/boot/initramfs-6.12.58-ipfire.img.tmp': No space left on device
> 
> So I suspect I need to make the IPFire vm disk larger.

The problem was that I made a clone of a system that I had tested out upgrading from CU150 to CU198 and the boot size was obviously smaller back in CU150 as I only have 110MB but the more current systems have 488MB so I will create a clone of one of my newer systems and repeat the test.

Regards,

Adolf.

> 
> Will give that a try later but would like to know if there is anything I need to do with regard to the initqueue module that is mentioned in the dracut output.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
> 
> On 11/12/2025 14:57, Adam Gibbons wrote:
>> Nice!
>>
>> I will test this over the weekend.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On 11 December 2025 12:00:23 GMT, Arne Fitzenreiter <arne_f@ipfire.org> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     i have compiled a first test kernel 6.18 for x86_64.
>>
>>     https://people.ipfire.org/~arne_f/highly-experimental/kernel/ <https://people.ipfire.org/~arne_f/highly-experimental/kernel/>
>>
>>     please help testing and report your findings...
>>
>>     Arne
>>
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