VM disks on LVM-thin inaccessible after hard-reboot

Unixfy

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Hello,

Recently I was forced to hard-reboot a server that is running Proxmox because it was not responsive (frozen). After it rebooted, however, all of the VM disks (which are stored on an LVM thin volume) are inaccessible, with an error like
Code:
Could not open '/dev/vg0/vm-106-disk-1': No such file or directory

However, all of the VM disks still show up in lvs -a:

Code:
root@HETZNER-E3-NUE ~/thin-provisioning-tools/bin # lvs -a
  LV                  VG  Attr       LSize   Pool     Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  base-100001-disk-1  vg0 Vri---tz-k  10.00g pve-data                                               
  pve-data            vg0 twi---tz--   1.56t                                                       
  pve-data_meta0      vg0 -wi-a-----   1.21g                                                       
  pve-data_meta1      vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta10     vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta11     vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta12     vg0 -wi-a----- 384.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta2      vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta3      vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta4      vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta5      vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta6      vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta7      vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta8      vg0 -wi-a----- 220.00m                                                       
  pve-data_meta9      vg0 -wi-a----- 128.00m                                                       
  [pve-data_tdata]    vg0 Twi-a-----   1.56t                                                       
  [pve-data_tmeta]    vg0 ewi-a----- 384.00m                                                       
  root                vg0 -wi-ao---- 250.00g                                                       
  swap                vg0 -wi-ao----  16.00g                                                       
  vm-100-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  20.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-100001-cloudinit vg0 Vwi---tz--   8.00m pve-data                                               
  vm-10002-disk-1     vg0 Vwi---tz--  15.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-10007-disk-1     vg0 Vwi---tz--  50.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-102-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--   5.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-102-disk-2       vg0 Vwi---tz--  50.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-103-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  60.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-104-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  55.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-105-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  20.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-106-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  50.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-107-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  20.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-109-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  20.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-110-cloudinit    vg0 Vwi---tz--   8.00m pve-data                                               
  vm-110-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  15.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-110-disk-2       vg0 Vwi---tz-- 500.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-111-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  20.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-111-disk-2       vg0 Vwi---tz-- 500.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-112-disk-1       vg0 Vwi---tz--  60.00g pve-data                                               
  vm-112-disk-2       vg0 Vwi---tz--   4.00m pve-data

I already tried to run lvconvert --repair, but I get an error WARNING: recovery of pools without pool metadata spare LV is not automated.

When I try to make the VM disks active (available state), I get an error:

Code:
root@HETZNER-E3-NUE ~/thin-provisioning-tools/bin # vgchange -ay vg0
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:14) failed: No data available
  16 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg0" now active

However, it is still possible to make the LVM-thin volume itself (vg0/pve-data) active, just not any of the volumes inside the LVM-thin volume.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!
 

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