Proxmox 4.4 update issues

[Compizfox]

Hi,

In preparation for a upgrade to Proxmox VE 5, I wanted to update my packages to the latest version. However, on a apt-get dist-upgrade I was greeted by this error:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  corosync-pve dmeventd dmsetup libcorosync4-pve libdevmapper-event1.02.1 liblvm2cmd2.02 lvm2
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up pve-manager (5.0-23) ...
Job for pvedaemon.service failed. See 'systemctl status pvedaemon.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
dpkg: error processing package pve-manager (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of proxmox-ve:
 proxmox-ve depends on pve-manager; however:
  Package pve-manager is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package proxmox-ve (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 pve-manager
 proxmox-ve
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

systemctl status pvedaemon.service shows this:

Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol systemd[1]: Reloading PVE API Daemon.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: unknown file 'replication.cfg' at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Cluster.pm line 765, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/AbstractConfig.pm line 11, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/AbstractConfig.pm line 11, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/QemuConfig.pm line 6, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/QemuConfig.pm line 6, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/HA/Resources/PVEVM.pm line 10, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/HA/Resources/PVEVM.pm line 17, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/HA/Env/PVE2.pm line 20, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/HA/Env/PVE2.pm line 20, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump.pm line 19, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump.pm line 19, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/API2/Backup.pm line 15, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/API2/Backup.pm line 15, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/API2/Cluster.pm line 15, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/API2/Cluster.pm line 15, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/API2.pm line 13, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/API2.pm line 13, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Service/pvedaemon.pm line 8, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Service/pvedaemon.pm line 8, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/pvedaemon line 11, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol pvedaemon[25122]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/pvedaemon line 11, <DATA> line 751.
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol systemd[1]: pvedaemon.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255
Jul 04 21:30:21 ethanol systemd[1]: Reload failed for PVE API Daemon.

While Googleing for this error I found some stuff about using dist-upgrade and never upgrade, but I did use dist-upgrade, so that's not it. Any ideas?

 

[dietmar]

You also run 'apt-get update' ?

 

[Compizfox]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I forgot to mention, but I did, of course

BTW, I use the community (no-subscription) repository.

 

[tom]

your log shows that already have 5.0 packages (...Setting up pve-manager (5.0-23)).

so it looks like you have a mix in your sources.list? I mean stretch and jessie.

pls check, e.g. analyse the full output of:

> apt update

 

[Compizfox]

That was it! When I added the PVE no-subscription repository, I copy-pasted the line from the docs and didn't notice that it said stretch already.

What would be the easiest way to resolve this? Should I just try to upgrade to Stretch directly from this state? I tried fixing the error in my sources.list (replacing stretch with jessie) but apt doesn't seem to be willing to downgrade the installed 5.0 packages so easily.

 

[tom]

Without knowing you current installation in detail, its impossible to advice.

If you have backups from your data, I suggest to try to follow the upgrade docs to 5.0 - downgrading could be hard/impossible.

 

[Compizfox]

Thanks, I went for it and the upgrade went fine.