I'm trying to use ZFS (zfsforlinux stable) on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 Server. I enabled the PPA, and apt-get install ubuntu-zfs
works successfully. However, no zfs module is created and the zpool
and related commands all complain that they can't install the module.
Help!
Install the pre-requisites and then do a
apt-get install --reinstall zfs-dkms
If you do not have build-essentials and kernel header installed the DKMS build steps will fail during the install of
ubuntu-zfs
. Were any error messages written to the console?I ran into a similar problem. I attempted to install
ubuntu-zfs
BEFORE installingbuild-essentials
and the kernel headers. That left a bit of a mess. Removingubuntu-zfs
does not remove all of it's dependencies. I had to:and
and track down the packages that were not removed by apt-get purge ubuntu-zfs.
After cleaning things up and installing the correct pre-requisites the install worked but still failed to correctly configure the modules to load.