[SOLVED] Help - Upgrade PVE 8 to 9, network keeps needing manual restart on boot

[Garrick]

Hello! I recently upgraded PVE 8 to 9 on my MacbookPro (Mid-2018) and need help debugging a networking issue.

Network fails to start up on boot. Running systemctl restart networking.service manually gets things going again.

I've masked zfs-import-scan.service and zfs-import-cache.service thinking they were causing the networking hangup, but that hasn't done anything to help with the networking issue.

I've attached the output from journalctl -b. Any pointers or suggestions?

Thanks in advanced!

 

[shanreich]

Seems like the root cause for the issue is the same as here https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/p...roxmox-kernel-7-0-0-3-pve.183865/#post-855135 - although I think in your case it's a different piece of hardware. You'll need to find what is stalling the udev service, which takes down ifupdown with it and fix it accordingly. I suspect applesmc:

Aug 15 14:13:08 proxmox kernel: applesmc: driver init failed (ret=-5)!

 

[Garrick]

@shanreich Thanks for the pointer! I learned a lot just looking into applesmc and how my MacBook Pro has a T2 chip, which doesn’t work with applesmc. I purged it and installed apple-bce from T2Linux and things seem to be working. Apparently T2Linux has patches that work with the T2 chip.