[SOLVED] Strange problem with /etc/pve

[LnxBil]

Hi everyone,

I'm facing this very strange problem:

root@proxmox4 /etc/pve/qemu-server > touch 7014.conf
touch: cannot touch '7014.conf': File exists

root@proxmox4 /etc/pve/qemu-server > ls -l 7014.conf
ls: cannot access 7014.conf: No such file or directory

I wanted to migrate a VM from an old 3.4 to a new 4.4 cluster by simple copying the configuration file, which worked for most of the machines, but not for all.

I'm at pve-no-subscription:

root@proxmox4 /etc/pve/qemu-server > pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 4.4-76 (running kernel: 4.4.35-1-pve)
pve-manager: 4.4-1 (running version: 4.4-1/eb2d6f1e)
pve-kernel-4.4.35-1-pve: 4.4.35-76
lvm2: 2.02.116-pve3
corosync-pve: 2.4.0-1
libqb0: 1.0-1
pve-cluster: 4.0-48
qemu-server: 4.0-101
pve-firmware: 1.1-10
libpve-common-perl: 4.0-83
libpve-access-control: 4.0-19
libpve-storage-perl: 4.0-70
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-1
vncterm: 1.2-1
pve-docs: 4.4-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.7.0-9
pve-container: 1.0-88
pve-firewall: 2.0-33
pve-ha-manager: 1.0-38
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-2+deb8u2
lxc-pve: 2.0.6-2
lxcfs: 2.0.5-pve1
criu: 1.6.0-1
novnc-pve: 0.5-8
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1~pve80
zfsutils: 0.6.5.8-pve13~bpo80

 

[LnxBil]

My own fault ... there already exists a container with ID 7014, therefore the migration didn't work.

 

[LnxBil]

For the record, I debugged it with the help of sqlite (of course one could have seen it also in the GUI, but ....)

root@proxmox4 /var/lib/pve-cluster > sqlite3 config.db
SQLite version 3.8.7.1 2014-10-29 13:59:56
Enter ".help" for usage hints.

sqlite> select count(1) from tree where name = '7014.conf';
1

Without the count, you'll get the configuration and it 'looked' LXC, so I looked at the GUI and tadaaaa lxc container present.