[SOLVED] LXC startup delay not working..

[crc-error-79]

Hello,

I am having a problem with the delayed start of an LXC.
Since it uses an NFS share from another vm, it must be booted up after it.

I tried adding a delay (frankly I set many values) but nothing has worked, and regardless of the value set it starts after few seconds

the truenas vm (id 209) has order 0 and delay at start 10.
the lxc instead (id 405) has order 1 (I also tried 0 or 2, 3, 4, etc) with start delay 300.

How can I solve?

root@era:~# pveversion --verbose
proxmox-ve: 8.0.2 (running kernel: 6.2.16-8-pve)
pve-manager: 8.0.4 (running version: 8.0.4/d258a813cfa6b390)
pve-kernel-6.2: 8.0.5
proxmox-kernel-helper: 8.0.3
proxmox-kernel-6.2.16-8-pve: 6.2.16-8
proxmox-kernel-6.2: 6.2.16-8
proxmox-kernel-6.2.16-6-pve: 6.2.16-7
pve-kernel-6.2.16-3-pve: 6.2.16-3
ceph-fuse: 17.2.6-pve1+3
corosync: 3.1.7-pve3
criu: 3.17.1-2
glusterfs-client: 10.3-5
ifupdown2: 3.2.0-1+pmx3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.4-1
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-4
libknet1: 1.25-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.4.6
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.4.0
libproxmox-rs-perl: 0.3.1
libpve-access-control: 8.0.4
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.3.1
libpve-common-perl: 8.0.7
libpve-guest-common-perl: 5.0.4
libpve-http-server-perl: 5.0.4
libpve-rs-perl: 0.8.5
libpve-storage-perl: 8.0.2
libspice-server1: 0.15.1-1
lvm2: 2.03.16-2
lxc-pve: 5.0.2-4
lxcfs: 5.0.3-pve3
novnc-pve: 1.4.0-2
proxmox-backup-client: 3.0.2-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 3.0.2-1
proxmox-kernel-helper: 8.0.3
proxmox-mail-forward: 0.2.0
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.4.0
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 4.0.6
pve-cluster: 8.0.3
pve-container: 5.0.4
pve-docs: 8.0.4
pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20230228-4
pve-firewall: 5.0.3
pve-firmware: 3.7-1
pve-ha-manager: 4.0.2
pve-i18n: 3.0.5
pve-qemu-kvm: 8.0.2-4
pve-xtermjs: 4.16.0-3
qemu-server: 8.0.6
smartmontools: 7.3-pve1
spiceterm: 3.3.0
swtpm: 0.8.0+pve1
vncterm: 1.8.0
zfsutils-linux: 2.1.12-pve1

 

[Neobin]

the truenas vm (id 209) has order 0 and delay at start 10.
the lxc instead (id 405) has order 1 (I also tried 0 or 2, 3, 4, etc) with start delay 300.

Try with order: 1 and a startup delay of e.g.: 300 on the TrueNAS-VM and order e.g.: 2 on the LXC.

• https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_startup_and_shutdown
• https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pct.html#pct_startup_and_shutdown

 

[crc-error-79]

I am not sure to have understood your suggestion, but if I set a 300 delay and order nr. 1 for truenas, proxmox will wait 5 minutes before start it, then immediately it will boot the lxc (delay 0 and order 2).

This in theory, because as you can see below, it seems a bug or so because from console:

at 12:33:53 . proxmox starts the delay for vm and lxc boot up
at 12:33:53 . proxmox starts the vm 209 (truenas)
at 12:34:08 . proxmox - 15 seconds later - starts the lxc 414
at 12:38:10 . proxmox ends the delay correctly (4 minutes or so) to start the virtual machines.

I should expect that I can get the console of the lxc after the 12:38 but instead I can enter few seconds after the 12:34.

 

[Neobin]

Please provide the guest config of those two each:

• qm config 209
• pct config 414

The startup delay affects all guests that have a higher or no order configured, after the guest on which the startup delay is configured:

Startup delay: Defines the interval between this VM start and subsequent VMs starts. For example, set it to 240 if you want to wait 240 seconds before starting other VMs.

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_startup_and_shutdown

 

[crc-error-79]

Please provide the guest config of those two each:

• qm config 209
• pct config 414

The startup delay affects all guests that have a higher or no order configured, after the guest on which the startup delay is configured:

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_startup_and_shutdown

It worked thank you!

I was wrong because I misunderstand how it works!

The delay is added after the vm start command, instead I thought this it is added before.

It is something like this: