Failed to run lxc.prehook.start

berbe01

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***LVM was full. I missed that.


I am creating a new Ubuntu container, doing a release upgrade on it and then rebooting.
After I reboot the container, it fails to start and gives the error in the title.
I have deleted the container and tried again. I tried privielged and unprivileged. Both produce the same results.

2 other forum posts here with the same issue saty its a disk issue.
None of my disks are full and I am not storing to a remote disk.



Code:
root@proxmox:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 6.4-1 (running kernel: 5.4.128-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.4-13 (running version: 6.4-13/9f411e79)
pve-kernel-5.4: 6.4-5
pve-kernel-helper: 6.4-5
pve-kernel-5.3: 6.1-6
pve-kernel-5.4.128-1-pve: 5.4.128-1
pve-kernel-5.4.124-1-pve: 5.4.124-2
pve-kernel-5.4.106-1-pve: 5.4.106-1
pve-kernel-5.4.78-2-pve: 5.4.78-2
pve-kernel-5.4.65-1-pve: 5.4.65-1
pve-kernel-5.4.44-2-pve: 5.4.44-2
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.4-11
pve-kernel-5.3.18-3-pve: 5.3.18-3
pve-kernel-5.3.13-1-pve: 5.3.13-1
pve-kernel-5.3.10-1-pve: 5.3.10-1
pve-kernel-4.15.18-23-pve: 4.15.18-51
pve-kernel-4.15.18-15-pve: 4.15.18-40
pve-kernel-4.15.18-12-pve: 4.15.18-36
pve-kernel-4.15.18-8-pve: 4.15.18-28
pve-kernel-4.15.18-1-pve: 4.15.18-19
pve-kernel-4.15.17-1-pve: 4.15.17-9
pve-kernel-4.10.17-2-pve: 4.10.17-20
ceph-fuse: 12.2.11+dfsg1-2.1+b1
corosync: 3.1.2-pve1
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: residual config
ifupdown2: 3.0.0-1+pve4~bpo10
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.20-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.1.0
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.1.0-1
libpve-access-control: 6.4-3
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.1-3
libpve-common-perl: 6.4-3
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.1-5
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.2-3
libpve-storage-perl: 6.4-1
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: 1.1.12-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.6-1
pve-cluster: 6.4-1
pve-container: 3.3-6
pve-docs: 6.4-2
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20200531-1
pve-firewall: 4.1-4
pve-firmware: 3.2-4
pve-ha-manager: 3.1-1
pve-i18n: 2.3-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 5.2.0-6
pve-xtermjs: 4.7.0-3
qemu-server: 6.4-2
smartmontools: 7.2-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-2
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.5-pve1


Code:
root@proxmox:~# pct start 141
run_buffer: 314 Script exited with status 255
lxc_init: 798 Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "141"
__lxc_start: 1945 Failed to initialize container "141"
startup for container '141' failed

Code:
root@proxmox:~# lsblk -f
NAME                         FSTYPE            LABEL     UUID                                   FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
loop0                        ext4                        6ef21c51-deb8-4170-9f7f-5f2191541793
loop1                        ext4                        99740460-48d8-45c1-a6fb-554b86169a3c
loop2                        ext4                        f0203e01-3741-40a5-8928-9b8e5d26122a
loop3                        ext4                        e4b633cd-107e-4b1c-9c3c-788b3927fee9
loop4                        ext4                        9a3afe65-8743-4b28-8778-ea36e024c074
loop5                        ext4                        a7657e23-d980-4060-a597-39d1f3c94c7a
loop6                        ext4                        68674a4f-c039-42aa-a8cd-a86bafd0b627
loop7                        ext4                        2d2777cc-9717-4120-8420-60f655a29ae8
loop8                        ext4                        e70719bf-0c2b-4c05-b812-59cf060ee976
loop9                        ext4                        274642bd-52c0-44cf-a4b2-cbdfec9e244e
loop10                       ext4                        9579e1cd-4883-4bef-a401-c2bc64eedbc7
loop11                       ext4                        b0de82b0-f368-4809-9d9a-ae601fdde050
loop12                       ext4                        914adc02-b9dd-43c9-9e0a-3f022e500586
loop13                       ext4                        acf5ee6e-f6e4-43d2-bc17-fb161748c1c1
loop14                       ext4                        863db701-38a1-43d7-9bf6-410d2ebc623f
sda
|-sda1
|-sda2                       vfat                        30E1-7A17
|-sda3                       LVM2_member                 yMtehV-jLkn-EtnX-BhpS-PbpO-xFon-U5cbNo
| |-pve-swap                 swap                        1367249a-6666-4137-8bb7-463332bc5166                  [SWAP]
| |-pve-root                 ext4                        5445f01e-4d5c-45f9-82d8-4939a5926c69     68.1G    22% /
| |-pve-data_tmeta
| | `-pve-data-tpool
| |   |-pve-data
| |   `-pve-vm--115--disk--0
| `-pve-data_tdata
|   `-pve-data-tpool
|     |-pve-data
|     `-pve-vm--115--disk--0
`-sda4
sdb
`-sdb1                       ext4                        f793605f-89cb-42bf-89aa-3157c04183d4    320.8G    79% /mnt/RAID10
sdc
`-sdc1                       ext4                        4490b1d7-6b11-4c83-b1a8-ae982d91393d    508.4G    39% /mnt/RAID5
sdd                          linux_raid_member proxmox:0 7c222e23-b0dd-0094-0acb-63d4912cf103
`-md0                        ext4                        61f20988-afcf-4e2e-acc9-c1d978b26bbc     23.4T    30% /mnt/MediaRAID
sde                          linux_raid_member proxmox:0 7c222e23-b0dd-0094-0acb-63d4912cf103
`-md0                        ext4                        61f20988-afcf-4e2e-acc9-c1d978b26bbc     23.4T    30% /mnt/MediaRAID
sdf                          linux_raid_member proxmox:0 7c222e23-b0dd-0094-0acb-63d4912cf103
`-md0                        ext4                        61f20988-afcf-4e2e-acc9-c1d978b26bbc     23.4T    30% /mnt/MediaRAID
sdg                          linux_raid_member proxmox:0 7c222e23-b0dd-0094-0acb-63d4912cf103
`-md0                        ext4                        61f20988-afcf-4e2e-acc9-c1d978b26bbc     23.4T    30% /mnt/MediaRAID
sr0                          udf               LEOLO     431daa7a5f5f5f4d

Code:
root@proxmox:~# lvs -a
  LV              VG  Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  data            pve twi-aotz-- 345.00g             30.17  24.42
  [data_tdata]    pve Twi-ao---- 345.00g
  [data_tmeta]    pve ewi-ao----  88.00m
  [lvol0_pmspare] pve ewi-------  88.00m
  root            pve -wi-ao----  96.00g
  swap            pve -wi-ao----   8.00g
  vm-115-disk-0   pve Vwi-aotz-- 106.00g data        98.20


Code:
root@proxmox:~# vgs -a
  VG  #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize    VFree
  pve   1   4   0 wz--n- <465.00g 15.82g

Code:
root@proxmox:~# cat /etc/pve/lxc/141.conf
arch: amd64
cores: 2
hostname: Piped
memory: 4096
nameserver: 1.1.1.1
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr2,hwaddr=62:e0:d9:44:00:c1,ip=dhcp,tag=74,type=veth
ostype: ubuntu
rootfs: BigRAID:141/vm-141-disk-0.raw,size=32G
swap: 0
unprivileged: 1
 
Last edited:
hi,
***LVM was full. I missed that.
is your issue gone then? if that's the case please mark the thread as [SOLVED]

otherwise you could post the output from pct start 141 --debug here and we'll take a look :)
 
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