Upgrade from 4.4 to 5. services files symlinked to /dev/null

davidmoore

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Hey, I just performed the dist-upgrade on my 4.4 system and after reboot the ssh service is running, but the pve stuff failed to start.

root@jormungandr:~# service pvedaemon status
● pvedaemon.service
Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
Active: inactive (dead)

root@jormungandr:/etc/systemd/system# ls -l
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 14:46 getty.target.wants
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jul 7 08:11 iscsi.service -> /lib/systemd/system/open-iscsi.service
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 08:14 multi-user.target.wants
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 08:11 network-online.target.wants
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pvebanner.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pve-cluster.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pvedaemon.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pve-firewall.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pve-ha-crm.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pve-ha-lrm.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pve-manager.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pvenetcommit.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pveproxy.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 pvestatd.service -> /dev/null
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 08:11 remote-fs.target.wants
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 08:11 sockets.target.wants
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 7 08:07 spiceproxy.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jun 30 14:46 sshd.service -> /lib/systemd/system/ssh.service
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 08:15 sysinit.target.wants
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jun 30 14:44 syslog.service -> /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 08:11 timers.target.wants
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jul 7 08:14 zed.service -> /lib/systemd/system/zfs-zed.service
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 2016 zfs-mount.service.wants
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 2016 zfs-share.service.wants
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 08:14 zfs.target.wants

What did I do wrong? How do I fix this? I saw something about systemctl unmask *.service, but that just removes the symlink, it doesn't replace it with a known .service file.
 

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