diff --git a/.github/workflows/zfs-tests-functional.yml b/.github/workflows/zfs-tests-functional.yml
index 176180612aa1..3e7cef27502f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/zfs-tests-functional.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/zfs-tests-functional.yml
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ jobs:
         sudo apt-get upgrade
         sudo xargs --arg-file=${{ github.workspace }}/.github/workflows/build-dependencies.txt apt-get install -qq
         sudo apt-get clean
-        echo "RPM2CPIO: $(which rpm2cpio)"
-        echo "CPIO: $(which cpio)"
-        echo "PKG: $(sudo apt list --installed | grep -E 'rpm|cpio')"
 
     - name: Autogen.sh
       run: |
@@ -35,7 +32,16 @@ jobs:
         ./configure --enable-debug --enable-debuginfo
     - name: Make
       run: |
-        make --no-print-directory -s pkg-utils pkg-kmod
+        make --no-print-directory -s pkg-utils pkg-kmod || true
+        R="$(sudo find  /tmp/ | grep zfs-2.1.16-1.x86_64.rpm || true)"
+        mkdir /tmp/junk
+        echo "RPMs: $R" 
+        sudo rpm2cpio $R 2>/tmp/err1  | (cd /tmp/junk; sudo cpio --extract --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames --preserve-modification-time 2>/tmp/err2)
+        echo "err1"
+        cat /tmp/err1 || true
+        echo "err2"
+        cat /tmp/err2 || true
+        
     - name: Install
       run: |
         sudo dpkg -i *.deb