Yup, definitely happily running with those steps. I slipped in a pair of old zfs disks which formed a mirrored pool and they imported as expected. Zpool status returns what I expect, and it successfully completed a scrub earlier.
Great.
I prefer to start from a known baseline when trying to work out what is wrong, so I tend to reinstall from scratch rather than try to fix a broken install.
Each to their own, but you can get old and grey very quickly that way (and learn less). If you’d posted the output of those commands on your existing install and not a new one, I may have seen something obvious in a second and saved you hours.
I understand now that weakref is cosmetic, but it doesn't give you confidence that things are going well when an installation ends in an error message, especially if you don't understand what the error means.
Yeah I do understand that.
As for the error message included in my list of steps, I elided the non error message output before and after it (hence the ellipsis). I've just tried this again, a fresh install in my VM, but the full log is more than the 10k allowed here so I've added it as an attachment. All of the errors seem to be benign.
I’m glad you’re up and running. Another happy customer
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