Need help "breaking in" to my Proxmox installation

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hobsoni

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Had a problem today, and the power to my proxmox machine got cycled. When it came up, it complained that the controls on the main drive were bad, and I needed to run jsck manually. I did eventually get the parameters right, and it booted, and started the VMs.

Then when I went to port 8006 and tried to log in, it rejected my credentials.

I could re-install from scratch, but that is a long job. Is there a quicker way to regain control?

This is a free-standing installation, not part of a cluster.

Thanks
Ian
 
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It could happend also if the lock file for pvedaemon is damanged / corrupted / somehow locked. systemctl status pvedaemon.service will show something like got lock request timeout. Try to remove it with:

Code: 
systemctl stop pve-cluster
rm -f /var/lib/pve-cluster/.pmxcfs.lockfile
systemctl start pve-cluster
 
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Hi,
glad you were able to solve the issue! Please edit the thread and select the [SOLVED] prefix. This helps other users to find solutions more quickly.

Could you share the output of journalctl -b0 -u pve-cluster.service -u pvedaemon.service (if you rebooted since the issue occured, replace the 0 with minus the number of reboots)? Just interested in the details and to see if something can be improved.
 
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