Upgrade to zfsutils-linux 0.8.1-1ubuntu5 fails on Ubuntu 19.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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zfs-linux (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (development branch)
Release: 19.10
2) apt-cache policy zfsutils-linux
zfsutils-linux:
Installed: 0.8.1-1ubuntu5
Candidate: 0.8.1-1ubuntu5
Version table:
*** 0.8.1-1ubuntu5 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3) Expected to upgrade from previous zfsutils-linux without error
4) What happened instead:
Setting up zfsutils-linux (0.8.1-1ubuntu5) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/zfs/
zfs-import-
Job for zfs-mount.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status zfs-mount.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript zfs-mount, action "restart" failed.
● zfs-mount.service - Mount ZFS filesystems
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2019-07-07 23:29:32 EDT; 7ms ago
Docs: man:zfs(8)
Process: 4265 ExecStart=/sbin/zfs mount -a (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 4265 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jul 07 23:29:32 drb-eoanzfs systemd[1]: Starting Mount ZFS filesystems...
Jul 07 23:29:32 drb-eoanzfs zfs[4265]: cannot mount '/root': directory is not empty
Jul 07 23:29:32 drb-eoanzfs zfs[4265]: cannot mount '/var/cache': directory is not empty
Jul 07 23:29:32 drb-eoanzfs systemd[1]: zfs-mount.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 07 23:29:32 drb-eoanzfs systemd[1]: zfs-mount.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 07 23:29:32 drb-eoanzfs systemd[1]: Failed to start Mount ZFS filesystems.
dpkg: error processing package zfsutils-linux (--configure):
installed zfsutils-linux package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zfs-initramfs:
zfs-initramfs depends on zfsutils-linux (>= 0.8.1-1ubuntu5); however:
Package zfsutils-linux is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package zfs-initramfs (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zfs-zed:
zfs-zed depends on zfsutils-linux (>= 0.8.1-1ubuntu5); however:
Package zfsutils-linux is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package zfs-zed (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.29-0ubuntu2) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.133ubuntu9) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.
Errors were encountered while processing:
zfsutils-linux
zfs-initramfs
zfs-zed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
affects: | zfsutils (Ubuntu) → zfs-linux (Ubuntu) |
This bug results in an unbootable system after the failed upgrade occurs. As this is being run in a virtual machine I will be restoring the original environment in case further testing is needed.