Cant start PVEPROXY

[Nhoague]

Ive read a few posts here about this issue, but none seem to be my issue. Here is what happened. We installed MegaRaid MSM management software so I could monitor / maintain the built in RAID. Then, we had a problem, so I uninstalled it. After that I lost the GUI for Proxmox. When I try to start pveproxy it throws an error. Here is the paste from systemctl status pveproxy.service:

root@TRIAD-PVE01:/# systemctl status pveproxy.service

● pveproxy.service - PVE API Proxy Server

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pveproxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-04-11 16:34:18 MDT; 20s ago

Process: 6782 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pveproxy start (code=exited, status=255)

Main PID: 1851 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

CPU: 727ms


Apr 11 16:34:18 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: Starting PVE API Proxy Server...

Apr 11 16:34:18 TRIAD-PVE01 pveproxy[6782]: start failed - can't open lock '/var/run/pveproxy/pveproxy.pid.lock' - Permission denied

Apr 11 16:34:18 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: pveproxy.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=255

Apr 11 16:34:18 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: Failed to start PVE API Proxy Server.

Apr 11 16:34:18 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: pveproxy.service: Unit entered failed state.

Apr 11 16:34:18 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: pveproxy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Also, to note, SNMP doesn't work either. So it sounds as it some package got removed when we uninstalled MegaRaid but which?! Any help is HUGELY appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[dietmar]

Maybe wrong permissions on /var/run/pveproxy ? Should be

drwx------  2 www-data www-data  120 Apr  5 08:36 /var/run/pveproxy

 

[Nhoague]

Thanks for the reply. The /var/run/pveproxy looks like this:

drwx------ 2 www-data www-data 80 Apr 11 11:30 pveproxy

but the contents of that directory are different than other pve servers I have. It looks like this:

root@TRIAD-PVE01:/var/run/pveproxy# ls -la

total 4

drwx------ 2 www-data www-data 80 Apr 11 11:30 .

drw-r--r-- 29 root root 1260 Apr 12 08:43 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 5 Dec 16 22:05 spiceproxy.pid

-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Dec 16 22:05 spiceproxy.pid.lock

root@TRIAD-PVE01:/var/run/pveproxy#

but still, when I try to start pveproxy I get this:

root@TRIAD-PVE01:/var/run/pveproxy# systemctl status pveproxy.service

● pveproxy.service - PVE API Proxy Server

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pveproxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-04-12 08:46:12 MDT; 2min 21s ago

Process: 26655 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pveproxy start (code=exited, status=255)

Main PID: 1851 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

CPU: 745ms


Apr 12 08:46:12 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: Starting PVE API Proxy Server...

Apr 12 08:46:12 TRIAD-PVE01 pveproxy[26655]: start failed - can't open lock '/var/run/pveproxy/pveproxy.pid.lock' - Permission denied

Apr 12 08:46:12 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: pveproxy.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=255

Apr 12 08:46:12 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: Failed to start PVE API Proxy Server.

Apr 12 08:46:12 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: pveproxy.service: Unit entered failed state.

Apr 12 08:46:12 TRIAD-PVE01 systemd[1]: pveproxy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

root@TRIAD-PVE01:/var/run/pveproxy#

Is it possible to reinstall just the PVE environment, without affecting the QEMU services? My VM's are still running and qm list shows them active, I just don't want to lose anything or destroy the VMs on accident.

Thank you!

 

[kbechler]

I had the same problem.

chmod helped (use at your own risk!):

root@w:/# ls -ld /
drwx------ 23 root root 4096 Jun 17 11:51 /
root@w:/# chmod 755 /

But still not sure what happend that this permission was changed :-\