[SOLVED] After PVE node address change, "Failed to connect to server" is received on console access

cosmos

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Apr 1, 2013
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Hello,

I'm using the free version of PVE for some time now on a single node. Our network addressing changed recently so I had to change its ip address. I did so from the network interface. That happened about a week ago.

Today I had a VM that did not respond even though the web interface of PVE indicated it as running. So I tried to view it from the console but received an error "failed to connect to server". I tried to view the consoles of other VMs, but received the same error.

I have 2 windows VMs running and a couple of Linux-based ones. In all cases I could not connect via console. The other VMs are fully operational (for example, I can connect just fine to my other Windows 7 box over RDP).

Any idea on where and what I should look for?

I don't have any clustering setups etc on the box. No ZFS if that matters.

EDIT: I should add that I can not open my LXC container as well, regardless of the method used (novnc, SPICE, xterm.js).

Details:
Code:
root@pve-1:~# pveversion
pve-manager/6.3-6/2184247e (running kernel: 5.4.103-1-pve)

root@pve-1:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 6.3-1 (running kernel: 5.4.103-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.3-6 (running version: 6.3-6/2184247e)
pve-kernel-5.4: 6.3-7
pve-kernel-helper: 6.3-7
pve-kernel-5.3: 6.1-6
pve-kernel-5.4.103-1-pve: 5.4.103-1
pve-kernel-5.4.101-1-pve: 5.4.101-1
pve-kernel-5.4.78-2-pve: 5.4.78-2
pve-kernel-5.3.18-3-pve: 5.3.18-3
pve-kernel-5.3.13-2-pve: 5.3.13-2
ceph-fuse: 14.2.16-pve1
corosync: 3.1.0-pve1
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: residual config
ifupdown2: 3.0.0-1+pve3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.20-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.0.7
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.0.3-1
libpve-access-control: 6.1-3
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.1-3
libpve-common-perl: 6.3-5
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.1-5
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.1-1
libpve-storage-perl: 6.3-7
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve4
lxc-pve: 4.0.6-2
lxcfs: 4.0.6-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
proxmox-backup-client: 1.0.10-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.4-6
pve-cluster: 6.2-1
pve-container: 3.3-4
pve-docs: 6.3-1
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20200531-1
pve-firewall: 4.1-3
pve-firmware: 3.2-2
pve-ha-manager: 3.1-1
pve-i18n: 2.2-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 5.2.0-3
pve-xtermjs: 4.7.0-3
qemu-server: 6.3-8
smartmontools: 7.2-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-2
zfsutils-linux: 2.0.3-pve2
 
Last edited:
(bump) Some help here please? No access to all VMs via noVNC, but the critical thing here is that I can not access one Windows VM that seems running, is pingable but is otherwise unresponsive (no CIFS, no RDP)!
 

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