Update gone wrong

houya

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Nov 20, 2024
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Hi everyone!

Running Proxmox VE 8.2.8, I launched an upgrade via the web GUI. Something went wrong when installing proxmox-kernel-6.8.8-4
After showing errors (see above), the console was unresponsive. The web GUI was unreachable (time out). I had to poweroff the server.

Reboot did not go to the end and I had to power off again.
Booting to recovery mode suggested doing a manual fsck. I did it and some orphan nodes were fixed. The reboot still hang up before the end.

So, in grub, I chose to boot with kernel 6.8.12-3 instead of 6.8.12-4. This time, everything went the right way. The VM's are running and the web GUI is working.

What should I do now?
Do I have to remove some files (which ones?) and try to upgrade again?


Bash:
Starting system upgrade: apt-get dist-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  proxmox-kernel-6.8.12-1-pve-signed proxmox-kernel-6.8.8-4-pve-signed
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  proxmox-kernel-6.8.12-4-pve-signed
The following packages will be upgraded:
  base-files bsdextrautils bsdutils btrfs-progs curl distro-info-data eject fdisk
  iputils-ping libarchive13 libblkid1 libc-bin libc-l10n libc6 libcurl3-gnutls
  libcurl4 libfdisk1 libglib2.0-0 libmount1 libmpg123-0 libnghttp2-14
  libnss-systemd libnss3 libpam-systemd libpve-common-perl libpve-rs-perl
  libpve-storage-perl libpython3.11-minimal libpython3.11-stdlib libsmartcols1
  libsqlite3-0 libssl3 libsystemd-shared libsystemd0 libudev1 libuuid1 locales
  mount novnc-pve openssl proxmox-archive-keyring proxmox-backup-client
  proxmox-backup-file-restore proxmox-kernel-6.8 proxmox-widget-toolkit
  pve-container pve-docs pve-manager pve-qemu-kvm python3.11 python3.11-minimal
  qemu-server sqlite3 systemd systemd-boot systemd-boot-efi systemd-sysv udev
  util-linux util-linux-extra
60 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 579 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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BEGIN failed--compilation aborted, <DATA> line 960.
 
Hello @houya welcome to the forum.

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.8.12-4-pve
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 273: rm: Input/output error
This error means that while installing the kernel 6.8.12-4-pve PVE couldn't write to or read from the system disk.

I would check the disk health and the cables. Maybe do a SMART test.
 
Thanks for your reply.
The SMART status is OK and fsck does not find anything wrong.

Can something go wrong again if I use autoremove and try another dist-upgrade?
 
Does your system have a separate /boot partition? Maybe it is broken or out of space.
No separate partition.
This is a very basic configuration:

Code:
Device       Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdb1       34       2047       2014  1007K BIOS boot
/dev/sdb2     2048    2099199    2097152     1G EFI System
/dev/sdb3  2099200 1953525134 1951425935 930.5G Linux LVM
 

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