Proxmox Debian Install failed

[Chris Welber]

I tried to build a Proxmox from a Debian base system instead of installing from the ISO using this article:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Jessie

When I got the command which actually installs Proxmox:
apt-get install proxmox-ve ntp ssh postfix ksm-control-daemon open-iscsi systemd-sysv

It fails. The output from the command is listed below. Any help is greatly appreciated from the Proxmox guru's.


apt-get install proxmox-ve ntp ssh postfix ksm-control-daemon open-iscsi systemd-sysv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ntp is already the newest version.
open-iscsi is already the newest version.
ssh is already the newest version.
postfix is already the newest version.
systemd-sysv is already the newest version.
proxmox-ve is already the newest version.
ksm-control-daemon is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
9 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-cluster (4.0-43) ...
Job for pve-cluster.service failed. See 'systemctl status pve-cluster.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript pve-cluster, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package pve-cluster (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpve-access-control:
libpve-access-control depends on pve-cluster; however:
Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libpve-access-control (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of librados2-perl:
librados2-perl depends on libpve-access-control; however:
Package libpve-access-control is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package librados2-perl (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pve-firewall:
pve-firewall depends on pve-cluster; however:
Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.
pve-firewall depends on libpve-access-control; however:
Package libpve-access-control is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package pve-firewall (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pve-ha-manager:
pve-ha-manager depends on pve-cluster (>= 3.0-17); however:
Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package pve-ha-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of qemu-server:
qemu-server depends on libpve-access-control; however:
Package libpve-access-control is not configured yet.
qemu-server depends on pve-cluster; however:
Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.
qemu-server depends on pve-firewall; however:
Package pve-firewall is not configured yet.
qemu-server depends on pve-ha-manager; however:
Package pve-ha-manager is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package qemu-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pve-container:
pve-container depends on pve-cluster (>= 4.0-8); however:
Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.
pve-container depends on pve-ha-manager; however:
Package pve-ha-manager is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package pve-container (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pve-manager:
pve-manager depends on qemu-server (>= 1.1-1); however:
Package qemu-server is not configured yet.
pve-manager depends on pve-cluster (>= 1.0-29); however:
Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.
pve-manager depends on libpve-access-control (>= 3.0-2); however:
Package libpve-access-control is not configured yet.
pve-manager depends on librados2-perl; however:
Package librados2-perl is not configured yet.
pve-manager depends on pve-firewall; however:
Package pve-firewall is not configured yet.
pve-manager depends on pve-ha-manager; however:
Package pve-ha-manager is not configured yet.
pve-manager depends on pve-container; however:
Package pve-container is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package pve-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of proxmox-ve:
proxmox-ve depends on pve-manager; however:
Package pve-manager is not configured yet.
proxmox-ve depends on qemu-server; however:
Package qemu-server is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package proxmox-ve (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
pve-cluster
libpve-access-control
librados2-perl
pve-firewall
pve-ha-manager
qemu-server
pve-container
pve-manager
proxmox-ve
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

 

[LnxBil]

Have you installed and rebootet the PVE kernel?

Why haven't you included the error messages reported? Please run

journalctl -xn

 

[Chris Welber]

After running the command:
apt-get install proxmox-ve ntp ssh postfix ksm-control-daemon open-iscsi systemd-sysv

On a new Jessie build based on the above article, here is the is the output from the command:

journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Tue 2016-07-19 16:22:42 EDT, end at Wed 2016-07-20 08:01:28 EDT. --
Jul 20 07:59:49 pve04 su[7361]: + /dev/pts/1 labuser:root
Jul 20 07:59:49 pve04 su[7361]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user root by labuser(uid=1000)
Jul 20 08:01:28 pve04 systemd-sysv-generator[7407]: Ignoring creation of an alias umountiscsi.service for itself
Jul 20 08:01:28 pve04 systemd-sysv-generator[7437]: Ignoring creation of an alias umountiscsi.service for itself
Jul 20 08:01:28 pve04 systemd[1]: Failed to reset devices.list on /system.slice: Invalid argument
Jul 20 08:01:28 pve04 pmxcfs[7446]: [main] crit: Unable to get local IP address
Jul 20 08:01:28 pve04 pmxcfs[7446]: [main] crit: Unable to get local IP address
Jul 20 08:01:28 pve04 systemd[1]: pve-cluster.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255
Jul 20 08:01:28 pve04 systemd[1]: Failed to start The Proxmox VE cluster filesystem.
-- Subject: Unit pve-cluster.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit pve-cluster.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Jul 20 08:01:28 pve04 systemd[1]: Unit pve-cluster.service entered failed state.
root@pve04:~#

 

[Chris Welber]

I followed the article:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Jessie

Line-by-line, and the failure occurs at this point in the article:
Install the Proxmox VE packages:

apt-get install proxmox-ve ntp ssh postfix ksm-control-daemon open-iscsi systemd-sysv

 

[LnxBil]

Your message

Unable to get local IP address

suggests, that you have something wrong with your /etc/hosts. Please check with the documentation you linked. There has to be pvelocalhost. Please post your /etc/hosts if your this the file is correct.

 

[Chris Welber]

Thanks it was a /etc/hosts file error.