hda driveready error

[ressel]

Hello Proxmox users,

For about 14 days ago, one of my virtual servers started give me these harddrive errors. (see screenshot)
Does any one know how i can fix it?
its really hard to get the machine up and run, i must restart it several times before i can access it.

If any info is needed, just tell me!

Best Regards,
Søren Ressel

 

[tom]

look not good, I suggest you restore form the last valid backup.

what kind of virtual disks do you use for this vm and what underlying storage system do you use?

 

[ressel]

There is none backup of this virtual disc
IDE IDE 0:0 404.00 local:101/web1.ybnet.dk-000002.qcow2

Virtual environment is Debian, the server was converted from vmware, about six months ago.

 

[tom]

Personally I am always using raw instead of qcow2 to eliminate possible issues with this additional virtualization layers (as I do not need the qcow2 features in most cases). what about my second question?

 

[ressel]

im using ext3

 

[tom]

I am asking about your storage subsystem hardware.

what kind of:
hard disks?
raid controller?
raid volumes?

 

[ressel]

Hello,

The setup i'm using is single 750 gb hard-drive, sata. none errors were found on last fsck witch is about 1 week ago.
2 x 750gb is installed, but is waiting for my server center got a raid controller ready (not installed)
so the second disc is not in use.

 

[dietmar]

Stupid question - but inside the VM, is 'hda' your HD or your CDROM?

 

[ressel]

it's my harddrive, there is no cd-rom drive attached

 

[dduh]

I had problems with disks after updating to pve-1.6 with a kernel 2.6.32. It only on one server. Has rolled away a kernel to 2.6.24 - works normally. On the second server of problems hasn't arisen.

 

[tom]

maybe with the first kernel release together with 1.6? we fixed some issue regarding the firmware files a few days after the initial release, seems to fixed these problems.

 

[dduh]

Today there was an updating. But while problems remained.

 

[tom]

pls provide all info regarding this issue - pls open a new thread.

 

[ressel]

Kernel VersionLinux 2.6.32-3-pve #1 SMP Wed Sep 8 11:47:56 CEST 2010

I will now try with old kernel

 

[ressel]

with the proxmox-ve-2.6.24 kernel im getting same problems.
so its not ony the 2.6.32-3 that makes the trouble, it must be something else.

 

[tom]

for me it looks like the disk is corrupted - therefore I suggested to restore from a backup.

 

[ressel]

sadly there is none backup of the server.
would it be possible to make some kind of "disc to disc" copy?

 

[ressel]

Yesterday the disc stopped working totally, it wouldn't boot or something, this morning i tried install ubuntu on same virtual machine on a new disc, and then mount this bad disc.
I could access /var/www and other folders with important data.
The whole day I have been working on installing a new ispconfig server and import my data from this bad disc to the new machine.
Now i can finally say.
Its running and working fine again.
Thanks proxmox for a good platform where its so easy to make a new machine and add the virtual discs to a machine!