Catastrophic Wireguard Install

Hi, just to be clear I've zero doubt the problem is me but this is a recurring issue and I've been unable to nut it out on my own.

I've found (both with OMV6 and 7) that installing the Wireguard plugin borks my system - ie I am unable to boot after install. I'm running headless and therefore am limited diagnostically (I can't say what errors are occurring when attempting to reboot)

I realise this'll make my problem frustrating for a lot of folks to engage with but any ideas at all'd be helpful.

When first using OMV a few years back it seemed as though the issue was that the LTS kernel did not include wireguard support and I discovered installing an edge kernel allowed me to install and use Wireguard successfully. I'm now getting the issue with OMV7 though so clearly my problem was not the kernel and whatever allowed me to install Wireguard was just incidentally triggered by the process I followed to install the edge kernel.

I've done seven fresh installs in the last few days just to get OMV7 bedded down and am a bit nervous about experimenting too much given cellular internet with limited data allowance. I'm hoping to swing into this with at least some idea about what the problem might be and how I might resolve it so I can minimise danger of another time consuming reinstallation.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Oscar

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only thing I can think of is that the Armbian package you are using according to your signature has some incompatibility with Wireguard, I would ask on the Armbian forum.

Thanks, chente.

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The plugin only installs two standard Debian packages

Unfortunately it seems like Debian Wireguard includes dkms packages which install a vanilla kernel. This happens with a cli Armbian install too (no OMV) – I'm unable to boot after installation (though I get no errors from installation).

Even apt install --no-install-recommends openmediavault-wireguard wants to install the kernel.

Really not sure how to solve this as it seems like a Debian problem

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you should ask on the Armbian forum

Arbian team say wireguard's included, that it should work without any need to install anything else. That doesn't address the unbootable state after installing wireguard on a bare metal Armbian install though, and doesn't help trying to install the OMV plugin

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What is the output of:

sudo apt-get install wireguard

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  linux-image-6.10.6+bpo-arm64-16k linux-image-arm64-16k
Suggested packages:
  firmware-linux-free linux-doc-6.10 debian-kernel-handbook
Recommended packages:
  apparmor
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-6.10.6+bpo-arm64-16k linux-image-arm64-16k wireguard
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 87.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 169 MB of additional disk space will be used.

I'd been hoping that the pre-rolled Arbian-OMV image might solve this problem but it's looking as though that's pretty naive. I'm guessing OMV team don't even know that's coming.

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it seems that on your system it needs to install another backports kernel

Werner and Igor speculated dkms packages are the problem

It'd help if I could just install the OMV interface elements

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Entonces si puedes instalarlos manualmente podría funcionar. No pierdes nada intentándolo.

Thanks but I get the same linux-image-6.10.6+bpo-arm64-16k linux-image-arm64-16k output in the OMV interface when installing the plugin

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I don't know what the pre-rolled Armbian-OMV image is. Is this something the Armbian team develops?

Yes Igor's got some pre release builds up in git, just not one for my board https://forum.armbian.com/topi…vault-omv/#comment-202105

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I don't know if this could be done

Thanks chente, even a manual workaround'd be great, I'd learn something if it were doable without any effort on ryecoaaron's part

For what it's worth I have the same problem with DietPi installs

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If someone installs the wireguard package so that apt knows about it, the plugin won't do anything when installed

Seems like I can't install the wireguard package without it installing an incompatible kernel

Actually I just remembered how I got it working with the edge kernel

I installed wireguard, then installed the edge kernel and headers then installed OMV

I'll give that another go. Thanks for your time Aaron