Force Stop Causes Systemd Timeout

Kalyan Sriram

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Oct 17, 2019
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Hi,
I've been having an issue on one of my proxmox servers lately, but I've been unable to recreate this on my other server:
I run a set of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Server VMs. When I launch VNC to access the VM shell after some time running, I encounter a spam of this error:
INFO: task systemd-journal:402 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Not tainted 4.15.0-72-generic #81-Ubuntu
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
INFO: task dockerd:1675 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Not tainted 4.15.0-72-generic #81-Ubuntu
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

This causes the shell to be inaccessible, so I end up shutting down the VM. However, since it hangs and doesn't shut down, I am forced to force "Stop" the VM. But after this, when I try to turn on that VM, I get the error: "timeout waiting for systemd", either in the Proxmox proxy dashboard or when running qm start <vmid>. I am able to start other VMs, and when I shutdown a VM in a safe manner, it starts up again correctly.

This has happened on several VMs on which I am running docker related services. I am currently forced to hard reboot my server every time this happens, something I cannot afford to do all the time. I have heard from some reading that this is caused by memory issues in the kernel, but does someone know of a fix to this?

Thanks!
 

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