NikosAlexandris

The steps to approach this were as suggested by Tassie_Tux (and, first, by renihs in #zfsonlinux): booting a live System Rescue ISO (with ZFS 0.6.3 support), importing the zpool (using -R and setting /mnt/funtoo as the mountpoint for the pool), chrooting into the existing Funtoo system, re-emerging all zfs related stuff and let world updates finish completely and successfully. All seems to be fine, except for boot-update and/or bliss-boot. I am trying to follow the wiki-instructions (on ZFS install). What is the difference between conf.py and config.py in /etc/bliss-boot/? The wiki <http://www.funtoo.org/ZFS_Install_Guide#bliss-boot> refers to conf.py. But, bliss-boot is looking for a config.py. I used bliss-initramfs 1 3.12.22-KS.01 and moved the initrd product to /boot/kernels via mv /boot/kernels/3.12.22-KS.01/initrd-3.12.22-KS.01 /boot/kernels/3.12.22-KS.01/initrd I had to edit the boot command (at launch) by hand to enter the 3.12.22-KS.01 kernel to boot successfully into Funtoo. I have the following config.py: # Copyright 2014 Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011@gmail.com> # # This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public # License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this # file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. #---------- General Configuration ---------- # Kernel Path and Bootloader Type bootdir = "/boot/kernels" # Supported bootloaders: grub2, extlinux bootloader = "grub2" # Is an initrd being used? initrd = 1 # 'timeout' is automatically multiplied by 10 for extlinux timeout = 3 # Default kernel to boot into default = "3.12.22-KS.01" # What do you want your kernel/initrd to be called in the config file? kernel_prefix = "vmlinuz" initrd_prefix = "initrd" # If using 'whole disk zfs', dataset where your /boot directory is in zfs_boot = "cognizance/os/funtoo/root" #---------- GRUB 2 settings ---------- # If you are using an UEFI system and booting into an UEFI-enabled # Linux install, enable this efi = 0 # Only activate this if you are using 'whole disk zfs' # aka no /boot, and your /boot directory is inside the zfs pool zfs = 0 # Adds all the modules specified on the list to the grub config # Feel free to specify or remove anything you use/don't use goody_bag = [ #"lvm", #"luks", #"mdadm", #"mdraid09", #"mdraid1x", ] #---------- extlinux settings ---------- el_ui = "menu.c32" el_m_title = "Boot Menu" el_c_title = "1;37;40" el_c_border = "30;40" el_c_unsel = "37;40" # If you enable this, it will disable the menu and automatically # boot your chosen default kernel. Leaving this at 0 will still boot # automatically but it will first show the menu, wait the timeout value # that you set above, and then boot the default kernel el_auto_boot = 0 # ---------- Kernels & Options ---------- kernels = { '3.12.22-KS.01' : 'root=cognizance/os/funtoo/root quiet', } # ---------- Other ---------- # Entries below will be appended (as is) to the end of the final file # Use this if you have custom stuff not detected by the bootloader # (like Windows installations...) append = 0 append_stuff = \ """menuentry "Windows 7" { insmod chain set root='(hd0,msdos2)' chainloader +1 } """ Unfortunately, bliss-boot does not seem to pick it up. Maybe useful to know as well, the boot.conf file is structured as follows: cat /etc/boot.conf boot { generate grub default "Funtoo Linux" timeout 3 } "Funtoo Linux" { kernel bzImage[-v] } "Funtoo ZFS" { kernel vmlinuz[-v] initrd initrd[-v] params root=cognizace/os/funtoo/root quiet } Stuck again!

Thanks, that's what I am working on the last hours... (emerging updates too now). Will report back here when I fix everything.

Hmmm, another reboot and a step closer. The system boots, KDE warms-up and after attempting to login (to KDE), a message pops-up saying: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation. Weird.

Booting a System Rescue CD (via a USB-Flash stick actually) with ZFS support built-in, I am able to import the pool and see all of its contents via: zpool import -R -f /mnt/z PoolName I exported the pool and tried to reboot the system. Now, fianlly, it complains that "Failed to import your zfs root dataset!" and boots into rescue shell. It should be fairly easy to understand what is wrong currently in my Funtoo box and fix it, right? :-)

I let the system (laptop) emerge world updates overnight. In the morning I found it hang. No reaction on any kind of keystrokes. It has happened again, yesterday, after replacing udev with eudev and upower with upower-pm-utils. And, my guess, is that it has to do with it. I.e., when the battery erached a full charge state, it hang. After booting, the system can't mount /home, thus, I can't access my data. However, I can login as root in /. Any hints on how to proceed with this?

I also needed to remove lvm2 first. Then, merging eudev worked as per the one-liner above.

Can I clone my Funtoo box in a virtual disk, so as to test the emerge virtual/udev or is it safe to emerge now?

You could use the Mark Solved button... Just for completeness ;-)

Maybe this is worth of an entry in the wiki as well?

This awesome forum platform, offers a "Mark Solved" button. It marks the answer with a nice and not to be overlooked tag BEST ANSWER. It's a pity not to use it, and, instead, edit by hand a thread's title to add the "Solved" word. It's a faster and cleaner way to manage "solved" threads, me thinks. Please, let us use it.

None of the above helped me further. Searching more for available packages, showed icedtea-web-1.4.2. Emerging it like USE="jamvm javascript" emerge -av icedtea-web hinted, among others, a magic message after installation completion saying The icedtea browser plugin (NPPlugin) can be enabled using eselect java-nsplugin. Listing options and current setting revealed the "problem" eselect java-nsplugin list Available 32-bit Java browser plugins Available 64-bit Java browser plugins [1] icedtea-7 [2] icedtea-bin-6 current [3] icedtea-web@icedtea-7 [4] icedtea-web@icedtea-bin-6 [5] oracle-jre-bin-1.7 Setting it to "7", like eselect java-nsplugin set 64bit 1 fixed it and http://glovis.usgs.gov/ runs fine. I don't know, of course, if installing icedtea-web-1.4.2 was necessary at all.

The USGS Global Visualization Viewer requires Java 7 or higher. In my Funtoo box I have: java -version java version "1.7.0_51" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode Isn't this already version 7? How do I get past this obstacle? I currently use Firefox which features (the plugin) IcedTea-Web ver. 1.3.2. I have also been through http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_Web_Browsers#Oracle_Java_Runtime_Environment to ensure it was not a "Security" misconfiguration.