Hi Alessandro, I, too, am "taking the plunge" early. On Friday, May 27, 2022 9:43:34 AM PDT Alessandro Baggi wrote:
Hey there, I have installed AlmaLinux 9 on my workstation. I know that I should wait until x.2 minor but if anyone wonn't test since first releases no bugs will be discovered.
I figured it best to start early and see what happens. So far, it does seem awful buggy. I installed it "minimal" and the installer crashed a few times before it successfully installed. DO NOT HIT THE ARROW KEYS at the text-based login screen. I've never seen behavior like this; I assume a fix is coming soon. Also, ZFS on Linux doesn't support it yet, I had to installed Fedora 34 zfs repos to get it working. (EL9 is based on Fedora 34) And because of this, I had to turn off UEFI in the MB and re-install because the compiled ZFS kernel module isn't signed. (sigh)
First problem: I'm not able to install nvidia driver (from nvidia.com) using dkms. I tried the latest driver and the previous one running under 8.6. Actually I'm running nouveau driver. I got this error:
"DKMS make.log for nvidia-510.54 for kernel 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64 (x86_64) Fri May 27 17:30:08 CEST 2022 make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64'
Compiler version check failed:
The major and minor number of the compiler used to compile the kernel:
gcc (GCC) 11.3.1 20220421 (Red Hat 11.3.1-2), GNU ld version 2.35.2-19.el9
does not match the compiler used here:
cc (GCC) 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9) Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
It is recommended to set the CC environment variable to the compiler that was used to compile the kernel.
The compiler version check can be disabled by setting the IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH environment variable to "1". However, mixing compiler versions between the kernel and kernel modules can result in subtle bugs that are difficult to diagnose.
*** Failed CC version check. Bailing out! ***
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/510.54/build/Kbuild:194: cc_version_check] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [Makefile:1862: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/510.54/build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64' make: *** [Makefile:82: modules] Error 2 "
Anyone encountered this issue and solved? Running gcc --version I get 11.2.1. How could the kernel be compiled with a newer gcc version? it was build running CentOS Stream? I don't know. I checked for update but there are not available upgrade.
I had strange video problems with an old GTX 660 card. Since it's a workstation becoming a server, I pulled it out.
Second issue is related to libvirt. All my VMs were using spice and QXL but EL9 deprecates spice and QXL. So to solve the problem I did imported all my old VMs. No problem here just more work. I noticed that /etc/sysconfig/ files libvirtd and libvirt-guests are not more available. I always used them to config "start on boot" shutdown parallel vms or shutdown timeout. Where I can set this option in EL9?
I found one of my VMs doing the same thing. The following command fixed it: virsh autostart VMNAME;