Complete USB bus crashing - When using external SSD - SATA to USB 3.0

[lbwarped]

Updated to latest kernel 6.8.12-4 and updated VeraCrypt to 1.26.14, but still encountered the problem. Rebooting into 6.5.13-6 fixed it.

Has anyone managed to find a bug report for this anywhere? I wonder if it's not specific to Proxmox.

 

[justinclift]

@lbwarped Proxmox apparently uses the Ubuntu kernel (LTS maybe, I don't remember).

So I'd kind of expect the problem to also be reported for Ubuntu systems if it's not due to an interaction between the kernel and something Proxmox specific as well.

 

[gfngfn256]

Doing a quick search I found a post (Linux Mint post that is currently using a 6.8 kernel like ours) that may suggest that the problem in fact maybe linked to the Veracrypt volume being formatted in exFat. This is in fact the case with my setup - as I want to be able to read the directory from a Windows machine too.

The user on that post, seems to have solved his problem by using an NTFS volume instead.

 

[justinclift]

Interesting. Is it feasible for you to try an NTFS volume instead too and see if that gets it working reliably?

 

[gfngfn256]

Is it feasible for you to try an NTFS volume instead too and see if that gets it working reliably?

I put it out there - so that maybe someone else could try & test. I'm hesitant to use NTFS on my production PVE.

 

[justinclift]

Yeah, that's probably the right approach.

 

[lbwarped]

Upgraded to Proxmox 9.0 yesterday and also updated Veracrypt to the latest version. No issues writing to my encrypted container on my external USB drive!