PVE on top of Debian 12: downgrade libcurl4?

[surveyor]

Hi all, am installing PVE on top of Debian 12 (and installed with Mortar).

However, this leads to a complaint about acme:


Which if I try to install, l leads to a complaint about libcurl4:


Do I need to downgrade?

FYI, here is my sources.list:


Thanks in advance.

 

[shanreich]

Do you need the backports repo? This is due to backports having a newer version which is not compatible with the proxmox package. We do not recommend using the backports repo at all, since issues like this are quite common when installing software from there.

 

[surveyor]

Do you need the backports repo? This is due to backports having a newer version which is not compatible with the proxmox package. We do not recommend using the backports repo at all, since issues like this are quite common when installing software from there.

I used backports because Debian recommended it in their ZFS setup guide, which I used to set up a mirrored pool with a pair of drives (and set up Mortar to hold the encryption key for a filesystem in that pool).

What do you recommend at this point, given that the rest of my config (Mortar & ZFS) is working properly?

I feel so close and yet so far to getting PVE up and running.

 

[shanreich]

Do you want to use ZFS as root disk? Or is it just as data storage?

 

[surveyor]

I set it up for data storage only (it was a pair of NVMEs separate from the SSDs root is on, which are using LVM with encryption). I was going to use both local-pve storage on the SSDs, as well as the NVMEs for faster sites.

 

[shanreich]

Then it should be fine to remove the ZFS-related stuff and remove backports, I think. Proxmox provides ZFS itself via the PVE repositories, so you should have access again once you install proxmox-ve.

I'm not sure how many other packages backports has pulled in that would need to be downgraded though - hard to say.

 

[surveyor]

Thanks. If I remove the current ZFS setup and redo it after installing PVE, will it store the ZFS key on /root and automount the ZFS data drive & keys at startup?

 

[shanreich]

I'm afraid that I don't really have experience with ZFS encryption, so I cannot really help you there - sorry. I think it should be fine to leave the your disks and ZFS setup as it is - including all your auto-mount / ecnryption key configuration. If you just uninstall ZFS itself, it should not do anything to your existing disk setup / configuration, it won't suddenly delete all your ZFS disks / configuration (if you do not use purge for uninstalling). As soon as you install proxmox-ve it should pull in our kernel + our version of ZFS and that should then pick up your existing configuration / settings and everything should work as it did before. That's at least how I think it would be, but I cannot give you any guarantees since I've never tried something like this. So, I'd try simply removing everything ZFS / backports related and then install proxmox-ve as usual and see if the ZFS setup gets picked up again.

Of course, make a backup of everything beforehand or simply redo the setup if you run into unexpected issues because that might be easier than trying to hunt down the issue.

 

[surveyor]

I wound up testing both routes, and it wound up being ok either way. Thanks!