Upgrade failed: pve-apt-hook: not found

[IncenTrI]

In February 2022, a buggy kernel update messed up my Win10 guest. I took the following steps and removed the problematic kernel.

apt remove pve-kernel-5.13.19-4-pve
pve-efiboot-tool refresh
pve-efiboot-tool kernel list

Ever since then whenever I tried to upgrade, I face errors like:

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...
79 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/138 MB of archives.
After this operation, 22.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
/bin/sh: 1: /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook: not found
E: Sub-process /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook returned an error code (127)
E: Failure running script /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook

System not fully up to date (found 82 new packages)
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Any ideas please?

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

try apt install proxmox-ve, if this does not work, try adding -f. When you want to remove/not use a specific kernel in the future use pve-efiboot-tool kernel since it can remove kernels or set the default one.

 

[IncenTrI]

Hey,

try apt install proxmox-ve, if this does not work, try adding -f. When you want to remove/not use a specific kernel in the future use pve-efiboot-tool kernel since it can remove kernels or set the default one.

Hi, both failed with errors like

root@host1:~# apt install proxmox-ve -f
...
The following additional packages will be installed:
pve-kernel-5.13 pve-kernel-5.13.19-6-pve
The following NEW packages will be installed:
proxmox-ve pve-kernel-5.13 pve-kernel-5.13.19-6-pve
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/66.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 328 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
/bin/sh: 1: /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook: not found
E: Sub-process /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook returned an error code (127)
E: Failure running script /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook

 

[IncenTrI]

I did the following and that seems to have solved the problem.

mkdir -p /usr/share/proxmox-ve
touch /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook
chmod +x /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook

Thank you.

 

[eljefejon]

I did the following and that seems to have solved the problem.

mkdir -p /usr/share/proxmox-ve
touch /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook
chmod +x /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook

Thank you.

This solved my problem thank you

Tried to update from 7.1 to 7.4 (success) then 7.4 to 8
In the process, it asked me to remove proxmox-ve and to verify and all that. Bad call. Had to run "apt remove linux-image-amd64 'linux-image-6.1*' "
Had to update the /etc/apt/sources to the updates version repositories for pve and ceph to latest version and kernel
Lost proxmox, luckily I still have my cluster. Now it allows me to update, and download proxmox-ve again.

Sharing to hopefully save someone else

 

[ryanstorm]

I did the following and that seems to have solved the problem.

mkdir -p /usr/share/proxmox-ve
touch /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook
chmod +x /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook

Thank you.

Thank you!! Worked like a charm!