Re: main-n254654-d4e8207317c results in "no pools available to import"

From: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon_at_dec.sakura.ne.jp>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:53:40 UTC
On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:29:20 +0200 (CEST)
Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote:

>  
> Van: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org>
> Datum: dinsdag, 12 april 2022 13:17
> Aan: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Onderwerp: Re: main-n254654-d4e8207317c results in "no pools available to import"
> > 
> > On 4/11/22 14:18, Ronald Klop wrote:
> > > On 4/11/22 17:17, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Did the usual git pull origin main and buildworld/buildkernel but >> after installkernel the machine will not boot.
> > >>
> > >> The rev seems to be main-n254654-d4e8207317c.
> > >>
> > >> I can boot single user mode and get a command prompt but nothing past
> > >> that. Is there something borked in ZFS in CURRENT ?
> > >>
> > > Up until now you are the only one with this error on the mailinglist > today. So I doubt something is borked.
> > > You could consider to share more details about your setup to help people > to think along with you.
> > >
> > I can confirm this issue.  My last update was 'main-n253996-1b3af110bc' from March 31, 2022 that worked fine.  My update yesterday received the same error and refused to boot past looking for kernel modules.  I did receive the "no pools available to import" message a couple of lines earlier.  My hardware is a Dell Inspiron laptop with a SSD and ZFS filesystem.  I have a little time today and plan on git reverting back to March 31 to further isolate the problem.
> > 
> > Tom
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> > Public Keys:
> > PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1
> > GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF
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> > 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Are you guys both using NVME or EFI? Just wondering if the common problem is in ZFS or some other component.
> 
> Ronald.
>  

My booting-fine installation is still at git
c79331a42c308139828c1117f49224bb83617a53 and is using both NVMe and
UEFI, but via nda, not nvd.
Non-Geli-encrypted bootfs.
Note that my BOOTx64.efi is not a copy of loader.efi, but boot1.efi
applied latest patch uploaded on Bug 207940 [1].

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207940

Basically, I upgrade pool only when I switch to latest stable branch
that is just created, meaning that the zfs codes and boot codes are
basically 100% match on main and latest stable. This way, both pools
of main environment and of stable (now stable/13) environment have
100% equal features.


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Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>