I had a VM that i was trying to use freeze, and I know force stopping it wouldve caused it to become a zombie process, so i decided I would restart the whole node (I already had a few vms in a zombie state so I thought it was gonna be a good idea to reboot anyway). during the shutdown it repeatedly couldnt unmount a mounted directory and it was sigkilling everything just to shutdown. when starting back up it was stuck on dev/mapper/pve-root: clean and i looked it up and people were saying to remove quiet from the grub boot options. after I did that i saw that it was really stuck on zfs-import.
it was trying to mount a zfs pool that I use and does exist, and cant, and there was no time limit on it failing. Im no linux expert and wasnt sure what to do, so I looked that up and all i could find were people who had this happen on nonexistant zfs pools and they could boot into proxmox to run commands and stuff. im posting about this here as a last resort that someone knows what to do and can hopefully help me get my server to boot, and possibly save the zfs pool.
it was trying to mount a zfs pool that I use and does exist, and cant, and there was no time limit on it failing. Im no linux expert and wasnt sure what to do, so I looked that up and all i could find were people who had this happen on nonexistant zfs pools and they could boot into proxmox to run commands and stuff. im posting about this here as a last resort that someone knows what to do and can hopefully help me get my server to boot, and possibly save the zfs pool.