Hi, On Sun, 2026-04-19 at 18:45 +0100, Christopher Obbard wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/go-debos/fakemachine/pull/298 > Control: subscribe -1 [email protected] > > Hi Helmut, > > On Wed, 8 May 2024 17:59:08 +0200 Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was trying to use debos and all that it told me was: > > > > > Modules path couldn't be determined > > > > This is not helpful. After digging into code I eventually figured that > > when it says "modules" it measn "Linux kernel modules". This is not > > evident from the context. Moreoever, it eventually became clear that the > > module it was missing was 9pnet_virtio. If that name had been included > > in the error message, it would have been immediately obvious to me that > > the cause was using a -cloud kernel as -cloud kernels lack 9p > > functionality (see #955232). While debos recommends a non-cloud kernel > > and the non-cloud kernel even got installed, the additional presence of > > a -cloud kernel image meant that grub would prefer booting that. > > > > I hope this is sufficient reason to improve the error message. Thanks > > for considering. > > > Thanks for reporting and sorry for the delay. I've just managed to get some > time to do some triage on this package. > > You're right. That's a pretty useless error message! I've proposed a patch > upstream > to make the error more verbose: > https://github.com/go-debos/fakemachine/pull/298 > > The error will read something like: "fakemachine: kernel module '9p' not > found for kernel '6.19.12+deb14-amd64'" > > It will trickle down eventually into debian once it is merged.
Just mentioning that https://github.com/go-debos/fakemachine/pull/298 was merged upstream and will be in the next fakemachine/debos release, probably in the next couple of months. Cheers! Chris _______________________________________________ Pkg-go-maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-go-maintainers
