Proxmox 4.4. Hypervisor seems to time out and die after initial login

[gizmo_the_great]

Hi

Have installed PM 4.4 on a dedicated machine. After some initial connection problems (in my first post) I thought all was well, however, I seem to have another issue which may be my fault or maybe not.

Basically, I power on the hypervisor machine and can then connect to the web interface from my other machine as you'd expect. I can login, and browse all the categories, view stats, CPU usage etc.

If I then leave it for an hour while I go and do something else, when I come back and try to continue, the connection is lost. I can no longer access the web interface. Tried starting a new browser tab, even tried a new browser. I just won't connect unless I reboot the hypervisor again.

Is there some kind of session issue I need to configure or something? I assumed once the hypervisor was powered on it would be connectable forever using the web address until it is powered off.

 

[dcsapak]

when you cannot connect to the webinterface, can you still connect via ssh ? are the vms/container still running?

 

[gizmo_the_great]

I didn't try SSH, and I still haven't got to the stage of creating VMs\Containers. The installation and just setting it up keeps thwarting me. So I'm afraid I don't know.

Since then I tried re-installing, again, this time to a newly configured hardware RAID0 (so /dev/sda). After installation, it then couldn't find the boot partition! So at the moment I can't try to SSH as you suggest. So it looks like I'll be re-installaing again after removing the RAID.

 

[gizmo_the_great]

OK, reinstalled to a software ZFS RAID0 instead.

So far, system all good. Can login and browse web interface.

Interestingly, execution of
> dmesg | grep eth1 | head -3

reports:

forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: if name eth1 PHY OUI .. MAC address here ...
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
forcedeth 0000:00:09.0 eth1 : MSI enabled