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TheNicholasNick

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Registered: 2023-04-30

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[SOLVED] ppp not available in 6.2.11-arch1-1?

Feel like a total dunce as been a long time since I've had to bother with configuring a kernel...

ERROR:  pppd: The kernel does not support PPP, for example, the PPP kernel driver is not included or cannot be loaded.

Linux arch 6.2.11-arch1-1

is it likely to come back?

I had a restore point in this Hyper-V VM so went back to 6.1.12-arch1-1 and added linux to ignorepkg in pacman.conf

i also had a go at switching to linux-lts but for whatever reason running grub-mkconfig broke the VM and it wouldn't boot anymore...

this is all covered in various places in the wiki, but not at a level I could get on with it.
this post is really a question if ppp will be back or will i need to figure out all this kernel & boot loader stuff and climb a cliff of knowledge?

Last edited by TheNicholasNick (2023-05-05 06:32:13)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,197

Re: [SOLVED] ppp not available in 6.2.11-arch1-1?

The module is still present https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p … nfig#L3647

This strongly suggests your bootloader setup is broken and you are booting an older kernel most often happens if you had a /boot partition mounted during initial install and not during normal system runtime or the reverse of that. What bootloader did you configure how did you install it and what is your output of

lsblk -f
cat /etc/fstab
uname -a
pacman -Q linux

Last edited by V1del (2023-05-01 16:31:29)

TheNicholasNick

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Re: [SOLVED] ppp not available in 6.2.11-arch1-1?

thanks for checking - i might just need to pass in extra params to grub-mkconfig or run grub-install again?

i installed following a short list of steps i put together: https://gist.github.com/TheNicholasNick … f1999f5af1

important bit is this i think

mkdir /boot/EFI
mount /dev/sda1 /boot/EFI
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi  --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck

results of commands

λ lsblk -f
NAME    FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1  ext4   1.0         0146ab5e-139b-4ab9-a6b7-c157c5ab37c7    9.4G    63% /
├─sda14
└─sda15 vfat   FAT32       1CF5-7FF9                              61.4M    41% /boot
sdb
└─sdb1  ext4   1.0         2b82466d-98a7-4026-8ddb-cb9e1a036178   74.1G     0% /home/user/projects/


λ cat /etc/fstab
# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda1
UUID=0146ab5e-139b-4ab9-a6b7-c157c5ab37c7       /               ext4            rw,relatime     0 1

# /dev/sda15
UUID=1CF5-7FF9          /boot           vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro   0 2

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=2b82466d-98a7-4026-8ddb-cb9e1a036178       /home/user/projects    ext4    defaults        0 2


λ uname -a
Linux arch 6.1.12-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:08:08 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux


λ pacman -Q linux
linux 6.1.12.arch1-1

Last edited by TheNicholasNick (2023-05-02 03:31:01)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] ppp not available in 6.2.11-arch1-1?

You're currently booting the installed 6.1.12.arch1-1 but previously stated 6.2.11-arch1-1
Is the problem still there?
(chances are youy updated the kernel, didn't reboot and then tried to load the ppp modules for the older kernel which turned inavailable w/ the update but are now for the current kernel)

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TheNicholasNick

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Registered: 2023-04-30

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Re: [SOLVED] ppp not available in 6.2.11-arch1-1?

chances are you updated the kernel, didn't reboot and then tried to load the ppp modules for the older kernel

I think you might be right, I loaded up a new blank VM and went through the motions and all is well...

Curiously I can't even use the ISO to boot the broken VM - just doesn't load. Think the VM boot process is fundamentally broken somehow...
Will mark this as solved for now and keep tinkering - if discover what went wrong will post a follow up -thanks for interacting