Re: Kernel 6.18 fist tests...

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

Hi Arne,

On 11/12/2025 18:28, Adolf Belka wrote:
> 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.

Repeated with a newer IPFire vm which had a 488MB boot partition and the dracut section went fine with no problems beside the initqueue module not being able to be installed. However that did not seem to cause a problem with the grub-mkconfig command or the subsequent reboot.

I will evaluate the install tomorrow to check if anything has a problem.

Regards,

Adolf.


> 
> 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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