Node renamed on single node. GUI not working.

[Jarvar]

Hello,
I've done a node rename before and did it successfully.
I recently did an in place upgrade from PVE 6 to 7. With that I got bold and tried renaming
/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname
/etc/postfix/main.cfg

I moved files from /etc/pve/nodes/old_node/qemu-server/ to /etc/pve/nodes/new_node/qemu-server

Before this, the GUI after renaming wouldn't pull up still.
I restarted systemctl start pveproxy.service pve-cluster.service
I have all VMs backed up so I could reinstall PVE 7 and reload everything, but I'd rather not.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[sterzy]

Hi,

renaming a node isn't really recommended. There is an older forum thread with a lot of information on this if you want to try to resolve your issues [1]. However, re-installing and using your backups would be the recommended way of dealing with this issue.

[1]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-node-name-change.14327/post-156444

 

[Jarvar]

Thanks. I think I discovered the issue. I had two ethernet ports that were bonded under vmbr0. When I renamed the node and hosts it must have messed up.
I did a fresh install of PVE 7.1 from the ISO and it still didn't work. I unplugged one of the Ethernet cables from eno2 and left eno1 connected.
It worked.
I should have tried that before reinstalling.
Probably a way to disable it from the shell too since I have an IPMI connection.
That's what I think anyways. At least that way I could save my settings,
I did have a backup of the VMs before hand and I guess it saved the settings too.
Thanks.