Problems during installing Proxmox VE 7 on Debian 11 Bullseye on Alix APU2C4

[luponator]

Hi Folks,

i am trying to get proxmox on an apu2c4 working.
(Short specs of the apu: 3 i210AT LAN / AMD GX-412TC CPU / 4 GB DRAM;
detailed specs of apu2c4 here https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm )

First I burned debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso to an USB-Stick using balenaEtcher 1.7.9 ( https://www.balena.io/etcher/ ).
Next I installed debian with some hints from this guide https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/installing-debian-over-serial-console-apu-board/

I updated the BIOS to apu2_v4.17.0.2.rom (taking some hints here https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu-bios-upgrade/ )

Than i proceeded working with this guide:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_11_Bullseye

1. Add an /etc/hosts entry for your IP address:
   

   root@proxmox:~# hostname --ip-address
   192.168.178.241

2. Adapt your sources.list
   

   root@proxmox:~# less /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list
   deb [arch=amd64] http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bullseye pve-no-subscription
   /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list (END)

3. Add the Proxmox VE repository key as root (or use sudo):
   

   root@proxmox:~# sha512sum /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-release-bullseye.gpg
   7fb03ec8a1675723d2853b84aa4fdb49a46a3bb72b9951361488bfd19b29aab0a789a4f8c7406e71a69aabbc727c936d3549731c4659ffa1a08fg

4. apt update
   

   root@proxmox:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt update
   Hit:1 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bullseye InRelease
   Hit:2 http://debian.mirror.iphh.net/debian bullseye InRelease
   Hit:3 http://debian.mirror.iphh.net/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
   Hit:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree... Done
   Reading state information... Done
   All packages are up to date.

5. apt full-upgrade
   

   root@proxmox:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt full-upgrade
   E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

6. dpkg --configure -a
   

   root@proxmox:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# dpkg --configure -a
   Setting up pve-manager (7.3-3) ...

   This seems not to come to any result. I am waiting for over half an hour now.

• Do you see, if I did a mistake somewhere?
• Any ideas how to fix the problem?
• Or to go back an start again, but to which point?

Any hint is welcome. If you need any further informations, please let me know.

Thank you in advance!
luponator

 

[gratuxri]

Maybe entropy problem? Try to install and run haveged, before installing PVE.

 

[luponator]

I started again at the debian installation. And needed to fix the follwing problems later on:

• hi had problems to get the package libzvbi-common_0.2.35-28_all.deb after changing to the debian default mirror of my country, it worked-
• i needed to to change the /etc/network/interfaces not to include any interface with "auto" setting, because this always led to the follwing error
  

  Setting up ifupdown2 (3.1.0-1+pmx3) ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/default/networking ...
  
  network config changes have been detected for ifupdown2 compatibility.
  Saved in /etc/network/interfaces.new for hot-apply or next reboot.
  
  Reloading network config on first install
  error: /etc/network/interfaces: line14: iface enp1s0: unsupported address method 'auto'
  dpkg: error processing package ifupdown2 (--configure)

after these changes the installation of proxmox was going well.