What was the expected behavior from your perspective? The ZFS utilities are useless without a ZFS kernel module. It seems to me that this is working fine, and installing the ZFS utilities in this environment doesn’t make sense.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to zfs-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1838276 Title: zfs-module depedency selects random kernel package to install Status in zfs-linux package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In MAAS (ephemeral environment) or LXD where no kernel package is currently installed; installing the zfsutils-linux package will pull in a kernel package from the zfs-modules dependency. 1) # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (development branch) Release: 19.10 2) n/a 3) zfsutils-linux installed without pulling in a random kernel 4) # apt install --dry-run zfsutils-linux Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: grub-common grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common libzfs2linux libzpool2linux linux-image-unsigned-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 linux-modules-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 os-prober zfs-zed Suggested packages: multiboot-doc grub-emu xorriso desktop-base fdutils linux-oem-osp1-tools linux-headers-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 nfs-kernel-server samba-common-bin zfs-initramfs | zfs-dracut The following NEW packages will be installed: grub-common grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common libzfs2linux libzpool2linux linux-image-unsigned-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 linux-modules-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 os-prober zfs-zed zfsutils-linux 0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Inst grub-common (2.04-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst grub2-common (2.04-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst grub-pc-bin (2.04-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst grub-pc (2.04-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) [] Inst grub-gfxpayload-lists (0.7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst linux-modules-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 (5.0.0-1010.11 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst linux-image-unsigned-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 (5.0.0-1010.11 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst os-prober (1.74ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst libzfs2linux (0.8.1-1ubuntu7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst libzpool2linux (0.8.1-1ubuntu7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst zfsutils-linux (0.8.1-1ubuntu7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Inst zfs-zed (0.8.1-1ubuntu7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf grub-common (2.04-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf grub2-common (2.04-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf grub-pc-bin (2.04-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf grub-pc (2.04-1ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf grub-gfxpayload-lists (0.7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf linux-modules-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 (5.0.0-1010.11 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf linux-image-unsigned-5.0.0-1010-oem-osp1 (5.0.0-1010.11 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf os-prober (1.74ubuntu2 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf libzfs2linux (0.8.1-1ubuntu7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf libzpool2linux (0.8.1-1ubuntu7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf zfsutils-linux (0.8.1-1ubuntu7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) Conf zfs-zed (0.8.1-1ubuntu7 Ubuntu:19.10/eoan [amd64]) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/1838276/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp