Recent content by RobFantini

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    Ceph in 2026 HDD

    Have you already purchased the motherboards? If not price out single cpu systems with plenty of memory. The savings over dual cpu ( assuming you were pricing that out) may leave cash to afford nvme’s or data a center grade ssd
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    unable to restore an privileged CT as unprivileged 2026

    you are correct . I was trying to convert an unprivileged to privileged . I had mis read the instruction at the wiki page https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Unprivileged_LXC_containers . it mentions ' It is possible to convert an existing CT into an unprivileged CT by doing a backup, then a...
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    unable to restore an privileged CT as unprivileged 2026

    I see , had thread name wrong. Just fixed that unable to restore an privileged CT as unprivileged is the issue
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    unable to restore an privileged CT as unprivileged 2026

    there is another thread named 'unable to restore an unprivileged CT as unprivileged' ( https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/unable-to-restore-an-unprivileged-ct-as-unprivileged.80004/ ) . so I have a privileged container I want to convert to unprivileged. tried these: # pct restore 181...
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    [SOLVED] unable to read '"/etc/subscription"' - Permission denied (os error 13) (500)

    After today's updates I get that message when I click on a node on pve screen # ll /etc/subscription -rw-r----- 1 root root 367 Jun 1 03:58 /etc/subscription this fixed the issue chmod 644 /etc/subscription
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    [SOLVED] backup fails: Unable toacquire lock "/var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks/.active.lock

    I moved the backup time to 00:10 . Will keep you posted on the results. I'll put to my calendar to report back if there are no issues in a week.
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    [SOLVED] backup fails: Unable toacquire lock "/var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks/.active.lock

    also during backups other nodes had the following errors. however the backups succeeded May 26 00:00:12 pve7 pve-ha-lrm[3892712]: VM 101 qmp command failed - VM 101 qmp command 'query-status' failed - got timeout May 26 00:00:10 pve2 pve-ha-lrm[2594781]: VM 106 qmp command failed - VM 106...
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    [SOLVED] backup fails: Unable toacquire lock "/var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks/.active.lock

    note that all 5 nodes use the same pve backup job. so they run at the same time. perhaps I should make a backup job spread out for each node?
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    [SOLVED] backup fails: Unable toacquire lock "/var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks/.active.lock

    journalctl -b -p3 -u proxmox-backup-proxy --since "yesterday" May 26 00:00:15 pbs-new proxmox-backup-proxy[2419]: error writing task result to the tasklog May 26 00:00:16 pbs-new proxmox-backup-proxy[2419]: GET...
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    [SOLVED] backup fails: Unable toacquire lock "/var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks/.active.lock

    Hello . I've seen mention of this at the German forum and a thread here [ which the poster never replied to the help given]. on one of 5 nodes in the last week the first vm fails a pbs backup. from backup fail emails: pve-15 107: 2026-05-18 00:00:16 ERROR: VM 107 qmp command 'backup'...
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    disarm-ha and arm-ha commands

    I have not tried the following but am posting for future reference. from grok : https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk_d940cfad-264d-46e6-a144-3e3e02625ae5 Recommended command for full cluster shutdown 1 Run this on any one node (it affects the whole cluster): ha-manager crm-command...
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    disarm-ha and arm-ha commands

    Impact - thank you for the fast response. from the document: Resource Modes When disarming HA, you must choose a resource mode that controls how HA managedresources are handled while disarmed. The current state of resources is notaffected. freeze New commands and state changes are not...