Installation of linux_base-f10.tbz fails: sysctl: unknown oid 'compat.linux.osrelease'

[René Ladan]

On 09-07-2013 05:36, Yuri wrote:
> Reporting an error that I got while installing it from binary:
> # pkg_add -r linux_base-f10
> Fetching
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/linux_base-f10.tbz...
> Done.
> sysctl: unknown oid 'compat.linux.osrelease'
> linuxulator is not (kld)loaded, exiting
> pkg_add: install script returned error status
> 
Did you do

# kldload linux

before trying to install the package (if running a GENERIC kernel)?

Also check that `sysctl compat.linux.osrelease' returns 2.6.16

René