ZFS on Ubuntu error: Failed to load ZFS module stack

 

If you see the above error in a fresh installation of ZFS on Ubuntu one cause may be that the package build-essentials wasn’t installed prior to installing the ubuntu-zfs package; run:

 

sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-zfs

 

then check for the remaining packages with the following:

 

dpkg –list | grep zfs

 

…and apt-get purge any remaining relevant ZFS packages.

 

Then:

 

sudo apt-get install build-essential

 

…then install ubuntu-zfs as you did originally:

 

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-zfs

 

This time it should take properly. This isn’t the only cause of that error but on a fresh install with a new OS it’s one possibility.


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