Journal Recovery - Failure to boot

scottcom4

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Hi All,

I am very new to Proxmox, having installed on a new mini PC about 2 months ago. Everything has been going along swimmingly until the last few days when, upon rebooting the physical machine, a message was thrown that the Journal was recovering. I left this overnight and when I returned in the morning the same message was presented with the same progress for files and blocks.
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I did some reading and this can be an issue when you are using passthrough for devices. I had set up video card passthrough for transcoding about a month and a half ago, and had restarted the machine multiple times since then without issue, however this seemed to be a good lead to pursue.

I first disabled SVM in the BIOS (Running an AMD processor) and rebooted. Same issue.

Next I booted into Grub and removed 'quiet' value from the standard boot and pressed F10 to load. I don't get the previously discussed message, but the following instead:

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I left this to sit for a few hours to see if it progressed further, but no such luck.

Next, I used the installation USB to boot into recovery mode with the terminal. I attempted to run fsck, but the message returned was that the fstab file could not be located. I checked and there was no fstab in /etc/.

Does anyone have any additional ideas on how I can proceed from here?

Thank you in advance for your help.
 
fstab doesn't disappear for no reason. Do you have any sort of backup of this system?

Post results of ' lsblk -f ', maybe you can recreate it

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=systemrescue
^ This is a full rescue environment with gparted, fsarchiver, etc


https://github.com/kneutron/ansitest/tree/master/proxmox

For future reference and CYA - when you get back up and running, setup the bkpcrit script in the repo above and use it frequently (like nightly in cron) and before any system changes
 
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