Re: Kernel 6.18 fist tests...

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

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.

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
>