Proxmox 8.1.4 - Kernel Update 6.5.11-8-pve

[gb00s]

Hi, I already recognized while updating to 6.5.11-7-pve some weeks ago, that pve-headers are not installed automatically like in the past. This causes a lot of hiccups with modules that shall be rebuild automatically via dkms. I have to upgrade pve-headers manually and then always rebuild the the modules. Is there anything I have missed in the past that prevents upgrading the pve-headers while the pve-kernel is being upgraded?

Thanks.

 

[fiona]

Hi,
please share the output of apt show pve-headers proxmox-default-headers proxmox-headers-6.5. Where there any errors during the upgrade? You can check /var/log/apt/term.log to make sure.

 

[gb00s]

Hi, that's the output below. Also, there were no errors. It's just that drivers etc ar eno longer loaded because the modules 'do not work' anymore after kernel upgrade.

bb8@pv:~$ sudo apt show pve-headers proxmox-default-headers proxmox-headers-6.5
Package: pve-headers
Version: 8.1.0
Priority: optional
Section: oldlibs
Source: proxmox-ve
Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
Installed-Size: 9,216 B
Depends: proxmox-default-headers
Homepage: https://www.proxmox.com
Download-Size: 2,608 B
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm/pve-no-subscription amd64 Packages
Description: Default Proxmox Kernel Headers (transitional package)
This is a dummy transitional package to transition to proxmox-default-headers.
It can be safely removed.

Package: proxmox-default-headers
Version: 1.0.1
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Source: proxmox-kernel-meta
Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
Installed-Size: 8,192 B
Provides: pve-headers
Depends: proxmox-headers-6.5
Download-Size: 1,808 B
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm/pve-no-subscription amd64 Packages
Description: Default Proxmox Kernel Headers
This is a metapackage which will install the kernel headers for the default
Proxmox kernel series.

Package: proxmox-headers-6.5
Version: 6.5.11-8
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Source: proxmox-kernel-6.5
Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
Installed-Size: 17.4 kB
Provides: linux-headers-amd64, linux-headers-generic, pve-headers-6.5
Depends: proxmox-headers-6.5.11-8-pve
Replaces: pve-headers-6.5
Download-Size: 9,248 B
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm/pve-no-subscription amd64 Packages
Description: Latest Proxmox Kernel Headers
This is a metapackage which will install the kernel headers
for the latest available proxmox kernel from the 6.5
series.

N: There are 12 additional records. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.

 

[fiona]

What about dpkg --status pve-headers proxmox-default-headers proxmox-headers-6.5 proxmox-headers-6.5.11-8-pve

 

[gb00s]

Of course ....

bb8@pv:~$ dpkg --status pve-headers proxmox-default-headers proxmox-headers-6.5 proxmox-headers-6.5.11-8-pve
Package: pve-headers
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: oldlibs
Installed-Size: 9
Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
Architecture: all
Source: proxmox-ve
Version: 8.1.0
Depends: proxmox-default-headers
Description: Default Proxmox Kernel Headers (transitional package)
This is a dummy transitional package to transition to proxmox-default-headers.
It can be safely removed.
Homepage: https://www.proxmox.com

Package: proxmox-default-headers
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 8
Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
Architecture: all
Source: proxmox-kernel-meta
Version: 1.0.1
Provides: pve-headers
Depends: proxmox-headers-6.5
Description: Default Proxmox Kernel Headers
This is a metapackage which will install the kernel headers for the default
Proxmox kernel series.

Package: proxmox-headers-6.5
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 17
Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
Architecture: all
Source: proxmox-kernel-6.5
Version: 6.5.11-8
Replaces: pve-headers-6.5
Provides: linux-headers-amd64, linux-headers-generic, pve-headers-6.5
Depends: proxmox-headers-6.5.11-8-pve
Description: Latest Proxmox Kernel Headers
This is a metapackage which will install the kernel headers
for the latest available proxmox kernel from the 6.5
series.

Package: proxmox-headers-6.5.11-8-pve
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 92140
Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: proxmox-kernel-6.5
Version: 6.5.11-8
Provides: linux-headers-6.5.11-8-pve-amd64, pve-headers-6.5.11-8-pve
Description: Proxmox Kernel Headers
This package contains the linux kernel headers
bb8@pv:~$

 

[fiona]

So all relevant packages are installed. proxmox-headers-6.5.11-8-pve is the latest package for kernel headers and each new version of proxmox-headers-6.5 will depend on the latest headers for kernel 6.5, so they will be automatically installed as a dependency during upgrade. What is the issue?

 

[gb00s]

The issue has been described in the initial post.

What is the issue?

Once I update the kernel, e.g. to 6...11-8, then the respective headers are not installed automatically. You see them in the outputs above because I had to manually install the headers. I have this issue for the last 4-5 kernel updates. Rebuilding modules with dkms doesn't even start automatically, which it did in the past. This causes a lot of trouble if I reboot the machine and forget to update the headers manually. Zpools are not starting etc ...

 

[fiona]

Was proxmox-default-headers installed at the time or did you also only install that recently? Because it depends on proxmox-headers-6.5 which in turn depends on proxmox-headers-6.5.11-8-pve (and will depend on the new headers package after the next kernel is released) so I really don't see how it couldn't have been installed except if there were errors during apt dist-upgrade. You can check /var/log/apt/history.log and /var/log/apt/term.log.

 

[gb00s]

Don't know what to say, but are reporting now that the same issue occurred with the kernel update to 6.5.13-x. Again, pve-headers are not installed alongside the kernel automatically and building modules fail. Need to install pve-headers manually again. I don't even consider it an issue that this Proxmox was installed on top of Debian. It shouldn't be a problem. No linux-headers/kernel images are on this system anymore.

It's frustrating as it forces constant manual intervention. Shouldn't ....

 

[tom]

So do you have

proxmox-default-headers

installed or not?

=>

apt install proxmox-default-headers

 

[vesalius]

Don't know what to say, but are reporting now that the same issue occurred with the kernel update to 6.5.13-x. Again, pve-headers are not installed alongside the kernel automatically and building modules fail. Need to install pve-headers manually again. I don't even consider it an issue that this Proxmox was installed on top of Debian. It shouldn't be a problem. No linux-headers/kernel images are on this system anymore.

It's frustrating as it forces constant manual intervention. Shouldn't ....

Taking a shot in the dark, but pve-headers are no longer what you need. I think that was deprecated somewhere in the last year or so. As mentioned above you now need proxmox-default-headers.

 

[gb00s]

@tom @vesalius @fiona

I totally missed that pve-headers were deprecated and also missed proxmox-default-package. Thanks for the support.