Re: upgrading raspberry pi required me to re install wireguard

From: Arpit Gupta <g.arpit@gmail.com>
To: logcabin@fastmail.net
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: upgrading raspberry pi required me to re install wireguard
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:57:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGCGytJE5bzXiXB8Go6aHk5OLT0D-m2AnKbRt=Nv1giEVrpsjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac5a35ae-7efb-4143-bf61-a687f6cee8a8@www.fastmail.com>

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Ya reboot did not solve this for me. I will read up on how I can execute
package pre/post install scripts.

Curious to know if the rebuild the module is the responsibility of the os
or the package after a kernel upgrade?

I will try to remember this next time there is a kernel upgrade 😁.

--
Arpit

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 4:30 AM <logcabin@fastmail.net> wrote:

> Yes, the kernel did get updated, causing the wg module dependencies to get
> out of sync. A reboot after the update should solve this, otherwise you may
> need to run the package's preinst script to get the modules back in sync.
> Should be no need to reinstall the wg packages.
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, at 2:14 AM, Arpit Gupta wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I am running raspberry pi v3 and ran apt-get update and upgrade commands
> to get upto date. It also ended up updating the kernel i think. I should
> have paid more attention to what all was getting updated.
>
> After the update wireguard was not running and upon debugging i found that
> the wireguard kernel module was no longer present. So i uninstalled all
> wireguard packages and installed them again and the module showed up and on
> reboot system was back to normal. What i was curious was how should one go
> about doing os/kernel updates in future in order to avoid this issue?
>
> I am running
> Linux raspberrypi 4.14.98-v7+ #1200 SMP Tue Feb 12 20:27:48 GMT 2019
> armv7l GNU/Linux
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Raspbian
> Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.8 (stretch)
> Release: 9.8
> Codename: stretch
>
> ii  wireguard                       0.0.20190123-1               all
>     fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (metapackage)
> ii  wireguard-dkms                  0.0.20190123-1               all
>     fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (DKMS version)
> ii  wireguard-tools                 0.0.20190123-1               armhf
>     fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (userland utilities)
>
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