Upgrade PVE 6.x to 7.x : Grub issues
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okay, so for some strange reason grub is unable to find the pve/root LV (it does see and skip the thin LVs on pve/data and the thin pool itself). I don't think we can get further on that front unless you are comfortable with running grub-probe under gdb and debugging grub's LVM implementation..
how does the full generated grub.cfg look like on the node with the errors? did you already reboot since the upgrade (don't do it yet please, just tell me if you have
)?
how does the full generated grub.cfg look like on the node with the errors? did you already reboot since the upgrade (don't do it yet please, just tell me if you have
)?
oh, and there is one report with a similar symptom: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=987008
okay, so for some strange reason grub is unable to find the pve/root LV (it does see and skip the thin LVs on pve/data and the thin pool itself). I don't think we can get further on that front unless you are comfortable with running grub-probe under gdb and debugging grub's LVM implementation..
how does the full generated grub.cfg look like on the node with the errors? did you already reboot since the upgrade (don't do it yet please, just tell me if you have
The auto-generated grub.cfg is really different on the non-working node compared to the working nodes.
On the non-working node, the reboot remains ok but I'm not comfortable to use it with a potential grub failure.
"Grub fails to find LVM volume after previous LV rename" seems to be different because I hadn't renamed or changed the LVM.
Do you have any other tess or suggestions ?
I hesitate to reinstall everything.
Here is the grub.cfg file from the non-working node.
It contains much less information than the grub.cf from a working node.
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okay, so that is indeed missing the explicit module loading for gpt and lvm2, but it seems those are loaded by default anyway else booting would not work.
I am afraid you are hitting some sort of bug in Grub's lvm parser (possibly because your / nvme is on the big side), further debugging would require stepping through the grub-probe call in a debugger and printing more debugging output at various points. the last changes in grub's lvm code were fixing various security issues with overflows / reading beyond buffer limits / .., possibly your disk happens to trigger one of those new checks and they are not 100% correct.
could you maybe generate a VG backup using
I am afraid you are hitting some sort of bug in Grub's lvm parser (possibly because your / nvme is on the big side), further debugging would require stepping through the grub-probe call in a debugger and printing more debugging output at various points. the last changes in grub's lvm code were fixing various security issues with overflows / reading beyond buffer limits / .., possibly your disk happens to trigger one of those new checks and they are not 100% correct.
could you maybe generate a VG backup using
vgcfgbackup pve on both nodes? it should generate a file in /etc/lvm/backup/pve containing information about the VG structure, maybe we can spot some peculiarity that trips up grub there..
Hello @fabian
I performed additional tests, I downgraded the grub version.
After the 6.x to 7.x upgrade the grub version is
I downgraded the grub version to the PVE 6.x based on buster which worked well.
I've added these sources
I've done this downgrade
Unfortunately, I am getting the same errors during the grub install process.
From my understanding, this issue might not be related to the grub version but something else during the PVE upgrade from 6.x to 7.x.
I've set up a new server for testing, so if you like, I can do some test in a secure environnement.
Regards,
I performed additional tests, I downgraded the grub version.
After the 6.x to 7.x upgrade the grub version is
grub2/testing 2.04-19 amd64I downgraded the grub version to the PVE 6.x based on buster which worked well.
grub2/now 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 amd64I've added these sources
deb [URL]http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian[/URL] buster main contrib
deb [URL]http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian[/URL] buster-updates main contrib
I've done this downgrade
apt install grub2=2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 grub-pc=2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 grub-common=2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 grub2-common=2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 grub-pc-bin=2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 os-prober
Unfortunately, I am getting the same errors during the grub install process.
From my understanding, this issue might not be related to the grub version but something else during the PVE upgrade from 6.x to 7.x.
I've set up a new server for testing, so if you like, I can do some test in a secure environnement.
Regards,
Hello Fabian,
I've generated a VG backup using vgcfgbackup pve on both nodes and there are identical except, of course, the node name and the lvmid (PV & VG).
I have no idea of why only one node upgrade gone wrong, so I've decided to do a fresh install of PVE 7.x on this node and it was a success.
This is not related to a hardware failure or hardware incompatibility.
All these nodes were previously upgraded from 5.x to 6.x and 6.x to 7.x.
It seems that the LVM detection process on my NVMe SSD was wrong due to a bug or to a SSD logical partition error.
In my opinion it's not related to Proxmox, but it'll be interesting to check all the LVM partitions and the grub bootloader in the pve6to7 script before the upgrade.
I'll keep you in touch if other nodes are also impacted.
I'd would like to thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Kind regards,
I've generated a VG backup using vgcfgbackup pve on both nodes and there are identical except, of course, the node name and the lvmid (PV & VG).
I have no idea of why only one node upgrade gone wrong, so I've decided to do a fresh install of PVE 7.x on this node and it was a success.
This is not related to a hardware failure or hardware incompatibility.
All these nodes were previously upgraded from 5.x to 6.x and 6.x to 7.x.
It seems that the LVM detection process on my NVMe SSD was wrong due to a bug or to a SSD logical partition error.
In my opinion it's not related to Proxmox, but it'll be interesting to check all the LVM partitions and the grub bootloader in the pve6to7 script before the upgrade.
I'll keep you in touch if other nodes are also impacted.
I'd would like to thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Kind regards,
thanks for the patience with all the back and forth! unfortunately, Grub has a lot of custom code for various filesystems, volume management and disk handling that can sometimes fail in strange and unexpected ways in edge-cases. this is one of the reasons we switched to no longer booting directly from ZFS with Grub. it's possible you hit one of those edge-cases that the "real" LVM supports without any issues, but the grub "LVM" takes a wrong turn even though your setup is completely valid.
I had exactly the same issue and I've been busy the whole day to fix this.
The solution was as follow:
- Execute all the steps from here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Recover_From_Grub_Failure
- the update-grub will fail. At this point you need to lvextend your logical volume with 2G for example.
lvextend -L 298G /dev/pve/root
resize2fs /dev/pve/root 298G
- Now you can try again the update-grub. And magically it doesn't give any error
- now you can finally run the grub-install. In my case it was grub-install /dev/nvme1n1 (my second ssd where proxmox is installed. I have a first ssd with Windows installed)
Thanks to Miquel and his post here https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/system-unbootable-grub-error-disk-lvmid-not-found.98761/ for the solution. I'm attaching a screen shot where we can see the grub-update before and after the lvextend. After this I ran grub-install /dev/nvme1n1 and reboot and promox was back.
The solution was as follow:
- Execute all the steps from here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Recover_From_Grub_Failure
- the update-grub will fail. At this point you need to lvextend your logical volume with 2G for example.
lvextend -L 298G /dev/pve/root
resize2fs /dev/pve/root 298G
- Now you can try again the update-grub. And magically it doesn't give any error
- now you can finally run the grub-install. In my case it was grub-install /dev/nvme1n1 (my second ssd where proxmox is installed. I have a first ssd with Windows installed)
Thanks to Miquel and his post here https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/system-unbootable-grub-error-disk-lvmid-not-found.98761/ for the solution. I'm attaching a screen shot where we can see the grub-update before and after the lvextend. After this I ran grub-install /dev/nvme1n1 and reboot and promox was back.
Awesome!!!
Thanks for sharing.
This saved me a reinstall of my Lab Host as well.
I was puzzled why I could not boot my proxmox machine anymore. Only thing I know is that I used a script to change the vmid for a VM.
This script uses vgrename changes config files, etc.
Could this have triggered grub to become corrupt?
Regardless this behaviour seems rather flaky.
Thanks for sharing.
This saved me a reinstall of my Lab Host as well.
I was puzzled why I could not boot my proxmox machine anymore. Only thing I know is that I used a script to change the vmid for a VM.
This script uses vgrename changes config files, etc.
Could this have triggered grub to become corrupt?
Regardless this behaviour seems rather flaky.
I'm curious why you chose to lvextend as opposed to lvreduce?
I'd have thought extending the LVM when there's no physical space to really do so would cause problems, especially as you then resize the filesystem?
I realise that LVM is "logical". And I also know that the data LVM is LVM-thin. But to my old fashioned way of thinking (LVM is still "magic" to me) I'm still imagining some data potentially being overwritten if you are really, really unlucky.
I also realise that reducing VLMs and the filesystem contained in them has its own dangers.
But that's the extent of my knowledge (excuse the unintended pun). I'm genuinely curious, and hoping to learn something new.
I'd have thought extending the LVM when there's no physical space to really do so would cause problems, especially as you then resize the filesystem?
I realise that LVM is "logical". And I also know that the data LVM is LVM-thin. But to my old fashioned way of thinking (LVM is still "magic" to me) I'm still imagining some data potentially being overwritten if you are really, really unlucky.
I also realise that reducing VLMs and the filesystem contained in them has its own dangers.
But that's the extent of my knowledge (excuse the unintended pun). I'm genuinely curious, and hoping to learn something new.
Greate!