Solved no pools available to import message on boot

[nxjoseph]

Hi. I'm having "no pools available to import" message on boot. Why is this happening? I am using 14.0-R.

 

[elgrande]

What is before that message if you scroll up?

 

[nxjoseph]

What is before that message if you scroll up?

I don't know how to do scrolling on tty.

Setting hostid etc.

 

[elgrande]

I don't know how to do scrolling on tty.

There should be a button on your keyboard that enables scrolling.
It is called „Scroll Lock“ or similar.
Once enabled you can scroll with arrow keys.

 

[elgrande]

Is that installation zfs or ufs?

 

[nxjoseph]

Is that installation zfs or ufs?

It's ZFS, i used auto partitioning.

 

[elgrande]

It's ZFS, i used auto partitioning.

Hm no idea in that case.
Everything works despite the message?

 

[nxjoseph]

Hm no idea in that case.
Everything works despite the message?

Yes, everything works.

 

[T-Aoki]

If everything is working fine except for the message, possibly, root pool (woukd be zroot by default) is already imported by loader and passed to kernel sanely, and NO OTHER POOL TO BE IMPORTED is available for rc.d scripts.
If this is true, would be no harm. Just annoying.

 

[Emrion]

I get this message since... I can't remember. And all people using ZFS have this.

It just says that there is no pool to import. It's like when you have an error if you have an empty CDROM: "cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present".

Be cool man.

 

[covacat]

its from /etc/rc.d/zpool which is triggered by zfs_enable="YES"

+ eval ' zpool_start '
+ zpool_start
+ local cachefile
+ [ -r /etc/zfs/zpool.cache ]
+ zpool import -c /etc/zfs/zpool.cache -a -N
no pools available to import
+ [ 0 -ne 0 ]
+ break
+ _return=0
+ umask 0022
+ [ 0 -ne 0 ]
+ return 0

 

[nxjoseph]

I guess that the zfs rc(8) service is in search for pools to mount, if there is just a one pool on the system, i think you'll get this message. I do have another pool besides zroot, the message doesn't occur anymore.

So I am wondering, if this is so, could I disable the rc service? What it actually does?