Bug 210312

Summary:	emulators/linux_base-c7: installation fails if linux.ko not loaded
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Ed Maste <emaste>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-emulation (Nobody) <emulation>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	bapt, emaste, grahamperrin, rene, tijl, trasz, w.schwarzenfeld, xmj
Priority:	---	Flags:	bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (emulation)
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2016-06-15 20:05:44 UTC

Attempting to update my packages failed with:

% sudo pkg upgrade
...
[10/19] Upgrading linux_base-c6 from 6.7_2 to 6.7_3...
sysctl: unknown oid 'compat.linux.osrelease'
linuxulator is not (kld)loaded, exiting
pkg: PRE-INSTALL script failed
%

It should be possible to upgrade the package w/o the linux kernel module loaded.

Comment 1 Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2016-06-15 20:08:24 UTC

Hrm, I suspect this started happening after r415233.

Comment 2 Tijl Coosemans freebsd_committer

2016-09-05 21:56:47 UTC

Linux support is needed to run /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig to update /compat/linux/etc/ld.so.cache.  There are other linux packages that run other tools during installation.  Kernel linux support is required when installing linux packages.  We cannot do much about that.

Comment 3 Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2016-12-23 14:38:07 UTC

There are things we *could* do:

- We could have some infrastructure that linux_base hooks into, in order to prevent the installation from starting rather than having it fail 75% of the way through (or prompt the user to kldload linux)
- For this specific case (ld.so.cache) we could have a FreeBSD port of Linux ldconfig
- We could queue post-install actions, and run them later

It may well be that requiring linux.ko to be loaded for pkg installation is the only reasonable approach. But we provide a terrible user experience by aborting the installation part way through, and will need to find some way to address that.

Comment 4 Walter Schwarzenfeld freebsd_triage

2019-01-25 20:47:38 UTC

We have version 6.10
This is surely out-of-date. So I am closing here.

Comment 5 Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2019-01-25 20:49:59 UTC

This problem persists, with linux_base-c7 7.4.1708_6

Comment 6 Walter Schwarzenfeld freebsd_triage

2019-01-25 21:10:13 UTC

Reopen,