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    Crucial 4TB SSD has 1 bad sector

    My not too old Crucial 4TB SSD running Proxmox Backup Server (Debian) regularly returns email telling me there is 1 bad sector pending. I'm not sure if it is causing the ext4 fs to become read-only, and hard crash the server, unpredictably. Below is the output from smartctl. Should I get...
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    Rando Crash?

    TLDR: Proxmox GUI & CLI non responsive. Rebooted, all is working again. Where should I look to figure out what happened? I understand there are multiple logs that I could look through, but not sure where to start? I am running win serv 2022 on a VM hosting PLEX so nothing crazy. I couldn't get...
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    Ceph OSD crash loop, RocksDB corruption

    Hi, yesterday one OSD went down and dropped out of my cluster, systemd stopped the service after it "crashed" 4 times. I tried restarting the OSD manually, but it continues to crash immediately, the OSD looks effectively dead. Here's the first ceph crash info (the later ones look the same): {...
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    [SOLVED] PVE host keeps crashing randomly

    I have a server I recycled from a Lenovo with an 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 and 16GiBs of RAM. Randomly, it crashes. I tried looking at the logs and it said a node has >8 VCPUs which I confirmed is false(I think that's from earlier when trying to create a VM) I speculate that it's...
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    My Proxmox host goes down due to backups.

    Hey there, I'm new to this proxmox. For a few months, my proxmox host goes down unexpectedly due to backups. After a manual restart, it comes back online. Initially thought that the issue was in BIOS. I did a few things, like updating BIOS, even though I get the same. Do you have any idea on...
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    Error crashing kernel

    Hello, I have a problem. My PVE is crashing randomly, at the moment everything is working, and at any moment without even touching it, this error message appears on the display and nothing else works (GUI, SHELL...), the VM/CT freezes, I have to force the server to shut down with the button...
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    Regular crashes on Lenovo M600 N3700- need help finding cause

    Hi all, because they're really cheap I got a used Lenovo M600 with an N3700 combined with a 2TB SSD to test PBS out in my homelab. However I've had this thing crash on me regularly and I have trouble finding the root cause. Previously I've disabled swap as earlier crashes had "read error on...
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    Odd random crashes at night

    Good morning (or what best applies to you), I got up (too early for a Sunday, yay...) and found home-assistant not being reachable. As it's a VM on my Proxmox machine, checking that one. It wouldn't have crashed again, would it? Indeed it was not reachable. Some specs on the machine: 1x...
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    [SOLVED] PVE crashes with any passthrough

    I am trying this ASROCK X470D4U + CPU 3700X combo and to make a proxmox based hyperconverged server. As the title said, whenever I enable sata ahci or nvme controllers in PVE (both amd and asmedia), the machine would crash. i.e. symptom: immediately blank terminal screen in live tty session...
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    [SOLVED] rsync to vm crashes proxmox host

    I currently have the problem that my Proxmox host crashes at random times. My first thought was that CEPH was the problem, so I removed it from my cluster. After removing CEPH, everything runs more stable but I still experience host crashes. While moving data from my synology NAS to my TrueNas...
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    Homelab Proxmox VE crashes

    Hello, I've recently made a Proxmox VE homelab on a PC. Recently he started crashing a lot (happenned 4 times now) even where there a 0 VM / Containers on. I've put a screenshot below to show the message. I cannot SSH or Https into the server when it happens. Modified configuration : CPU...
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    Ubuntu server VM crashing from rclone on PVE, what could be the problem?

    Hi, I am using rclone to sync and then check several source and destination directories. While it is running the Ubuntu Server VM freezes up. When the Ubuntu Server VM crashes it becomes completely non responsive, the guest agent stops running, I cannot SSH into the machine. I also cannot...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox constantly crashes after few mins

    Edit: My problem was faulty ram sticks. So I recently installed the latest version of proxmox with ZFS raid 1 on a new machine with the following specs: Mobo: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk Max Wifi Cpu: AMD RYZEN 7 5700X Cpu Fan: Noctua NH-D9L Ram: HYPERX Fury 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz Gpu: Nivida Gtx...
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    System suddenly crashed, how to find out what happened

    I've been running proxmox on Intel Nuc (i7-10710U CPU) device for the past several years and it has always been rock solid. Today however it crashed - stopped responding to pings and I had to pull the power plug to restart it. root@pve:~# pveversion -v proxmox-ve: 8.2.0 (running kernel...
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    [Solved] Instant Reboot on PVE when running container/VM

    Hello all. I'm running a new install of PVE (8.2.4) and am experiencing some weird reboots. Reboots are not graceful, and there's no logging as to what went wrong. I just get "-- Reboot --". Sometimes it will last hours, some times it will last minutes. Memtest has not been able to complete. But...
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    promox freezes (kernel 6.8.8-1 pve)

    Hi, i have the following issue with proxmox: after some time e.g. 1-2 days the system freezes and everything is down. when connecting to ilo i can see the login screen but the server is not accepting any input. also ping / webgui and all the vms on that server are not responding any more. after...
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    Inexplicable unknown/"gray question mark" crash state of node in cluster with ceph

    Hi everyone For a couple of months, one of my nodes has randomly entered the gray question mark state anywhere between 5 minutes and two days after booting. After it happens, vm management (shutdown/reboot) becomes unresponsive but the guests keep functioning for a few more hours and so does...
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    PVE randomly crashes

    Hello, I have a problem with PVE installed on an OVH dedicated server. On the first, since May 15th and every 10/15 days, I've been experiencing totally unexpected system crashes. The host suddenly stops responding, SSH and KVM access are interrupted. The server doesn't reboot, and I have to do...
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    Proxmox 8 crashes when copying data inside windows VM

    Hi, I have a group of Precision 3680 machines with Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K processors. I am creating only one Windows 10 VM on each Proxmox machine, and I am using pass-through for the disk. However, after copying a large amount of data (In the VM) to the disk, Proxmox completely freezes...
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    Kernel crash - Remote logging for PVE 8+

    Hello, I have a host that locks up every couple of days, and I'm unable to get any info from the local logs. I did find a guide on the wiki (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Kernel_Crash_Trace_Log) on how to set up remote logging using rsyslog, but with PVE 8 rsyslog isn't installed. I'm curious to...

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