Bookworm installation fails with pve-manager dependency error

[vu2swx]

I am trying to install version 8 on a fresh install of debian 12. I am getting dependency error for pve-manager


Setting up pve-manager (8.0.3) ...
ipcc_send_rec[1] failed: Connection refused
ipcc_send_rec[2] failed: Connection refused
ipcc_send_rec[3] failed: Connection refused
Unable to load access control list: Connection refused
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pvedaemon.service →
/lib/systemd/system/pvedaemon.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pveproxy.service → /
lib/systemd/system/pveproxy.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/spiceproxy.service →
/lib/systemd/system/spiceproxy.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pvestatd.service → /
lib/systemd/system/pvestatd.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/pvebanner.service → /lib/
systemd/system/pvebanner.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pvescheduler.service
→ /lib/systemd/system/pvescheduler.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/pve-daily-update.timer →
/lib/systemd/system/pve-daily-update.timer.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/pvenetcommit.service →
/lib/systemd/system/pvenetcommit.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/pve-manager.service → /lib/systemd/system/pv
e-guests.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pve-guests.service →
/lib/systemd/system/pve-guests.service.
Backing up lvm.conf before setting pve-manager specific settings..
'/etc/lvm/lvm.conf' -> '/etc/lvm/lvm.conf.bak'
Setting 'global_filter' in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to prevent zvols from being scanned
:
global_filter=["a|.*|"] => global_filter=["r|/dev/zd.*|"]
Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 145.
dpkg: error processing package pve-manager (--configure):
installed pve-manager package post-installation script subprocess returned erro
r exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of proxmox-ve:
proxmox-ve depends on pve-manager; however:
Package pve-manager is not configured yet.


I tried this on a second machine with same results

 

[fiona]

Hi,
what is the output of pvecm status and pve7to8?
EDIT: sorry, wrongly assumed it was an upgrade. Can you post the output of

systemctl status pveproxy.service pvedaemon.service pve-cluster.service
systemctl start pveproxy.service pvedaemon.service pve-cluster.service

?

 

[vu2swx]

Sure, But after the weekend.

Hi,
what is the output of pvecm status and pve7to8?
EDIT: sorry, wrongly assumed it was an upgrade. Can you post the output of

systemctl status pveproxy.service pvedaemon.service pve-cluster.service
systemctl start pveproxy.service pvedaemon.service pve-cluster.service

?

 

[ailuros]

I think I was running into the same exact issue. I installed Debian 12, then following instructions to install Proxmox on top. However, I skipped some steps :')

Regarding the hosts file I thought I'll think about this later; so it only had default 127.0.1.1 entry.. Well it seems that setting host entry to actual IP-address made the error related to "Could not execute systemctl" go away.

Then I still had some errors from services not starting: "/etc/pve/local/pve-ssl.key: failed to load local private key"
Which I solved by (note this regens other things like SSH keys as well it seems!): pvecm updatecerts --force

Ps. I'm new to using Proxmox so just trying things out as I go along

 

[vu2swx]

Please see the status @fiona

Hi,
what is the output of pvecm status and pve7to8?
EDIT: sorry, wrongly assumed it was an upgrade. Can you post the output of

systemctl status pveproxy.service pvedaemon.service pve-cluster.service
systemctl start pveproxy.service pvedaemon.service pve-cluster.service

?

 

[fiona]

So the issue seems to be with the pve-cluster.service. Please post the output of journalctl -xeu pve-cluster.service or the full journal since last boot. That hopefully shows what the actual issue is.

 

[vu2swx]

@fiona Here it is.

 

[fiona]

Doesn't show the error unfortunately. Please check/share the file resulting with journalctl -b > /tmp/journal.log

 

[vu2swx]

@fiona here it is.

 

[spirit]

Jun 23 16:21:11 debian systemd[1]: Stopped pve-cluster.service - The Proxmox VE cluster filesystem.
Jun 23 16:21:11 debian systemd[1]: Starting pve-cluster.service - The Proxmox VE cluster filesystem...
Jun 23 16:21:11 debian pmxcfs[8885]: [main] crit: Unable to get local IP address
Jun 23 16:21:11 debian pmxcfs[8885]: [main] crit: Unable to get local IP address
Jun 23 16:21:11 debian systemd[1]: pve-cluster.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Jun 23 16:21:11 debian systemd[1]: pve-cluster.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'

Seem to be related to /etc/hosts

you need to resolve your hostname to the real ip.
if you have any "127.0.1.1 <hosntame>" in this file, remove it.

 

[vu2swx]

@spirit Ok. That fixed it.Thank you