Hi Alessandro, 

I, too, am "taking the plunge" early. 

On Friday, May 27, 2022 9:43:34 AM PDT Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Hey there,
> I have installed AlmaLinux 9 on my workstation. I know that I should 
> wait until x.2 minor but if anyone wonn't test since first releases no 
> bugs will be discovered.

I figured it best to start early and see what happens. So far, it does seem 
awful buggy. I installed it "minimal" and the installer crashed a few times 
before it successfully installed. 

DO NOT HIT THE ARROW KEYS at the text-based login screen. I've never seen 
behavior like this; I assume a fix is coming soon. 

Also, ZFS on Linux doesn't support it yet, I had to installed Fedora 34 zfs 
repos to get it working. (EL9 is based on Fedora 34) And because of this, I 
had to turn off UEFI in the MB and re-install because the compiled ZFS kernel 
module isn't signed.

(sigh)

> First problem: I'm not able to install nvidia driver (from nvidia.com) 
> using dkms. I tried the latest driver and the previous one running under 
> 8.6. Actually I'm running nouveau driver. I got this error:
> 
> "DKMS make.log for nvidia-510.54 for kernel 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64 
> (x86_64)
> Fri May 27 17:30:08 CEST 2022
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64'
> 
> Compiler version check failed:
> 
> The major and minor number of the compiler used to
> compile the kernel:
> 
> gcc (GCC) 11.3.1 20220421 (Red Hat 11.3.1-2), GNU ld version 2.35.2-19.el9
> 
> does not match the compiler used here:
> 
> cc (GCC) 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)
> Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> 
> It is recommended to set the CC environment variable
> to the compiler that was used to compile the kernel.
> 
> The compiler version check can be disabled by setting
> the IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH environment variable to "1".
> However, mixing compiler versions between the kernel
> and kernel modules can result in subtle bugs that are
> difficult to diagnose.
> 
> *** Failed CC version check. Bailing out! ***
> 
> make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/510.54/build/Kbuild:194: 
> cc_version_check] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1862: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/510.54/build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.x86_64'
> make: *** [Makefile:82: modules] Error 2
> "
> 
> Anyone encountered this issue and solved? Running gcc --version I get 
> 11.2.1. How could the kernel be compiled with a newer gcc version? it 
> was build running CentOS Stream? I don't know. I checked for update but 
> there are not available upgrade.

I had strange video problems with an old GTX 660 card. Since it's a 
workstation becoming a server, I pulled it out. 

> Second issue is related to libvirt. All my VMs were using spice and QXL 
> but EL9 deprecates spice and QXL. So to solve the problem I did imported 
> all my old VMs. No problem here just more work. I noticed that 
> /etc/sysconfig/ files libvirtd and libvirt-guests are not more 
> available. I always used them to config "start on boot" shutdown 
> parallel vms or shutdown timeout. Where I can set this option in EL9?

I found one of my VMs doing the same thing. The following command fixed it: 
virsh autostart VMNAME;

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