In case it might assist anyone in future, I was able to boot using a previous kernel and then dist-upgrade, which (re?)built/installed everything that needed to be done automatically.
https://serverfault.com/questions/1031420/zfs-modules-suddenly-stopped-loading-debian-10 Best wishes, Gareth On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, at 12:37, Gareth Evans via Hampshire wrote: > Hi all, hope you're well. > > My ZFS modules have mysteriously stopped loading at the point during > boot when you would usually unlock the pool with encrypted ZFS on root > (Debian 10). It drops into busybox and suggests loading the zfs modules > - can anyone advise how to do this? > > (initramfs)# modprobe zfs > > ...reports "module zfs not found in modules.dep" > > An oddity, which seems unrelated - I used scp -r to copy a largeish > directory structure from another PC to /home/username/folder on the > machine in question immediately before this issue occurred, and scp > seemed to get stuck in a loop. After a few folders worth it would > restart copying the same files again. I watched this happen a few > times to confirm I wasn't imagining it, stopped scp and then used > rsync, which succeeded. I later reset the machine and ZFS modules > failed to load. > > No updates had been applied since the last successful reboot. > > Any ideas what might have happened? > > Thanks > Gareth > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
