[SOLVED] Need some help uninstalling proxmox-ve

[Ovidiu]

I am fooling around on a test server and was simply trying out proxmox-ve and installing it with zfs on root.
I now would like to remove proxmox-ve and keep doing some tests with zfs so I tried the following:

apt-get remove proxmox-ve

which asked me to do a touch '/please-remove-proxmox-ve'
it worked, I rebooted but now I can't seem to install other packages, i.e.

 apt-get install deborphan debfoster -u
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  dialog libgc1c2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  debfoster deborphan dialog libgc1c2
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/643 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,121 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
/bin/sh: 1: /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook: not found
E: Sub-process /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook returned an error code (127)
E: Failure running script /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook

can I get a quick pointer how to completely remove proxmox-ve or how to get rid of this problem please?

 

[Ovidiu]

found the solution here: https://blog.stevedong.com/post/proxmox-ve-how-to-fixed-upgrade-error/

 

[Ovidiu]

ok, after removing most promox-ve leftovers I can't seem to update initramfs-tools

apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.133+deb10u1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.133+deb10u1) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.44-2-pve

/etc/initramfs/post-update.d//pve-efiboot-sync: 10: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//pve-efiboot-sync: /usr/sbin/pve-efiboot-tool: not found
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//pve-efiboot-sync exited with return code 127

dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools

Any hints?

 

[matrix]

post output of /etc/default/grub

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

apt-get remove proxmox-ve

try purging the config as well -

apt purge proxmox-ve

and also purge all configurations of the remaining pve/proxmox packages (the pve-efiboot-sync tool and the initramfs hooks are in 'pve-kernel-helper' for example)...

 

[Ovidiu]

try purging the config as well -

apt purge proxmox-ve

and also purge all configurations of the remaining pve/proxmox packages (the pve-efiboot-sync tool and the initramfs hooks are in 'pve-kernel-helper' for example)...

not sure if it was purging the different pve components but things seem to work now. Thanks for the help.