[TUTORIAL] [Fix] /etc/pve/local/pve-ssl.key: failed to load local private key

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You finished your install or changed configuration and suddenly your GUI access does not work, direct console access and SSH is intact, upon further inspection with:

Code: 
journalctl -e

There's a barrage of (most numerous):

Code: 
pveproxy[949]: /etc/pve/local/pve-ssl.key: failed to load local private key (key_file or key) at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/APIServer/AnyEvent.pm line 2025.

Following this lead, you may as well end up troubleshooting why your /etc/pve is empty now, indeed missing keys. Do NOT do that.
If you scroll up in the log further up, you will find all other services failing:

Code: 
pmxcfs[756]: [main] crit: Unable to resolve node name 'nodename' to a non-loopback IP address - missing entry in '/etc/hosts' or DNS?
systemd[1]: Failed to start pve-cluster.service - The Proxmox VE cluster filesystem.
systemd[1]: Failed to start pve-firewall.service - Proxmox VE firewall.
systemd[1]: Failed to start pvestatd.service - PVE Status Daemon.
systemd[1]: Failed to start pve-ha-crm.service - PVE Cluster HA Resource Manager Daemon.
systemd[1]: Failed to start pve-ha-lrm.service - PVE Local HA Resource Manager Daemon.
systemd[1]: Failed to start pve-guests.service - PVE guests.
systemd[1]: Failed to start pvescheduler.service - Proxmox VE scheduler.

So yes, unfortunately it is the missing entry in '/etc/hosts' or DNS that is causing all this.

Compare your /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts, possibly also IP entries in /etc/network/interfaces and check against output of ip -c a.

As of today, PVE relies on hostname to be resolvable, by default with entry in /etc/hosts.
 
So. I wonder now, the above 5774 was instant WONTFIX, this is with the exact opposite reasoning as e.g. 5767.

When I post this on the forum, @LnxBil asks me, why I do not file BZ report first, when I file it there, they tell me I am spamming reports.

So back to here where at least I can: ask everyone who considers this to be an issue to make a comment in the above and request it to be fixed.

Otherwise PVE will be bugridden forever.
 
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