Proxmox upgrade error

[powersupport]

We are trying to minor upgrade proxmox pve 6.4.4 but getting error as below

Starting system upgrade: apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-image-4.19.0-10-amd64 linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64 linux-image-4.19.0-8-amd64
  proxmox-archive-keyring pve-kernel-5.0.21-3-pve pve-kernel-5.0.21-5-pve
  pve-kernel-5.3.13-1-pve
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  proxmox-ve pve-firmware pve-kernel-5.0 pve-kernel-5.3 pve-kernel-5.4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firmware-linux-free libproxmox-acme-plugins linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64
The following packages will be upgraded:
  base-files bind9-host ceph ceph-base ceph-common ceph-fuse ceph-mds ceph-mgr
  ceph-mon ceph-osd debconf debconf-i18n dnsutils isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common
  klibc-utils krb5-locales libbind9-161 libcephfs2 libdns-export1104 libdns1104
  libgcrypt20 libglib2.0-0 libgnutls30 libgnutlsxx28 libgssapi-krb5-2 libhivex0
  libhogweed4 libirs161 libisc-export1100 libisc1100 libisccc161 libisccfg163
  libk5crypto3 libklibc libknet1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblwres161 liblz4-1
  libmariadb3 libnettle6 libnss-systemd libntfs-3g883 libnvpair3linux libpam-systemd
  libpq5 libproxmox-acme-perl libproxmox-backup-qemu0 libpve-access-control
  libpve-common-perl libpve-http-server-perl librados2 libradosstriper1 librbd1
  librgw2 libsndfile1 libssl-dev libssl1.1 libsystemd0 libudev1 libuutil3linux
  libwebp6 libwin-hivex-perl libx11-6 libx11-data libx11-xcb1 libxml2 libzfs4linux
  libzpool4linux linux-image-amd64 linux-libc-dev lynx lynx-common mariadb-common
  nmap nmap-common ntfs-3g openssl proxmox-backup-client proxmox-backup-file-restore
  proxmox-backup-restore-image proxmox-widget-toolkit psmisc pve-container pve-docs
  pve-firewall pve-kernel-helper pve-manager python-ceph-argparse python-cephfs
  python-dnspython python-rados python-rbd python-rgw python3-debconf qemu-server
  spl squashfs-tools systemd systemd-sysv tzdata udev zfs-initramfs zfs-zed
  zfsutils-linux
106 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/175 MB of archives.
After this operation, 98.7 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
W: (pve-apt-hook) !! WARNING !!
W: (pve-apt-hook) You are attempting to remove the meta-package 'proxmox-ve'!
W: (pve-apt-hook)
W: (pve-apt-hook) If you really want to permanently remove 'proxmox-ve' from your system, run the following command
W: (pve-apt-hook)       touch '/please-remove-proxmox-ve'
W: (pve-apt-hook) run apt purge proxmox-ve to remove the meta-package
W: (pve-apt-hook) and repeat your apt invocation.
W: (pve-apt-hook)
W: (pve-apt-hook) If you are unsure why 'proxmox-ve' would be removed, please verify
W: (pve-apt-hook)       - your APT repository settings
W: (pve-apt-hook)       - that you are using 'apt full-upgrade' to upgrade your system
E: Sub-process /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook returned an error code (1)
E: Failure running script /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook

System not fully up to date (found 111 new packages)

starting shell

cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster main contrib

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org buster/updates main contrib
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription

Anyone advice on this?


Thank you

 

[tom]

Seems you installed initially on top of Debian?

Please try before:

> apt remove linux-image-amd64 'linux-image-4.19*'

(see https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster#Optional_Steps)