[SOLVED] Proxmox upgrade to 5.0 Interrupted

[JustinG]

Hello all,

I was upgrading my Proxmox 4.4 to Proxmox 5.0 using

apt-get dist-upgrade

There was a power issue and the install was interrupted half way through. Now the proxmox service won't start.

I've run the following commands:

1) dpkg --configure -a
2) apt-get -f install
3) apt-get dist-upgrade

Each and every time I'm greeted with the same response:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Now I've tried to run apt-get install --reinstall proxmox-ve, however I get the following error message:

root@metamesh-vmhost:~# apt-get install --reinstall proxmox-ve
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 proxmox-ve : Depends: pve-manager but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: qemu-server but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have tried everything. Can anyone please help me get my install back up and running?

If my only option is re-installing the entire OS, would it be at all possible to find out which each VM ID's information was? (Name, specs, network setup, etc). I looked in /etc/pve but apparently that got emptied out as well. This is most important as I have no way at the moment to find out which VMs had which settings.

Extra info:
Here is the output of systemctl status pve-cluster.service.

● pve-cluster.service - LSB: Starts the pve cluster filesystem
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pve-cluster; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Sun 2017-07-09 15:04:16 EDT; 1h 0min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 6999 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/pve-cluster stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 7002 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pve-cluster start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
      CPU: 2ms

Jul 09 15:04:16 metamesh-vmhost systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts the pve cluster filesystem...
Jul 09 15:04:16 metamesh-vmhost systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts the pve cluster filesystem.

 

[JustinG]

Update: it seems I'm not the only one having this issue.

I followed the steps here https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/upgrade-4-4-to-5-no-gui.35557/, and updated my repositories, rebooted, ran apt-get dist-upgrade again, and sure enough everything seems to be back online.

Thanks.