VM on local-lvm won't start at boot

[Davide Davini]

Hi,

Since the latest update -I'm running 5.2- I have this issue the first VM in the boot order, which is seated on local-lvm on an internal SSD drive, won't start at boot with error failed: got timeout.

After that all other VM's, that are on NFS mount, start in sequence without any issue. When I go ahead and start the VM manually it works like a charm.

I can't begin to fathom why. I can't find any clue.

The VM was put there to give the time to the NFS mount to come online so it has to be the first one to start.

Any advice will be greatly appriciated.

# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 5.2-2 (running kernel: 4.15.18-1-pve)
pve-manager: 5.2-5 (running version: 5.2-5/eb24855a)
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.2-4
pve-kernel-4.13: 5.2-2
pve-kernel-4.15.18-1-pve: 4.15.18-15
pve-kernel-4.15.17-3-pve: 4.15.17-14
pve-kernel-4.15.17-2-pve: 4.15.17-10
pve-kernel-4.15.17-1-pve: 4.15.17-9
pve-kernel-4.13.16-4-pve: 4.13.16-51
pve-kernel-4.13.16-3-pve: 4.13.16-50
pve-kernel-4.13.16-2-pve: 4.13.16-48
pve-kernel-4.13.13-2-pve: 4.13.13-33
corosync: 2.4.2-pve5
criu: 2.11.1-1~bpo90
glusterfs-client: 3.8.8-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-2
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-2
libpve-access-control: 5.0-8
libpve-apiclient-perl: 2.0-5
libpve-common-perl: 5.0-35
libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-17
libpve-http-server-perl: 2.0-9
libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-24
libqb0: 1.0.1-1
lvm2: 2.02.168-pve6
lxc-pve: 3.0.0-3
lxcfs: 3.0.0-1
novnc-pve: 1.0.0-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 1.0-19
pve-cluster: 5.0-28
pve-container: 2.0-24
pve-docs: 5.2-4
pve-firewall: 3.0-13
pve-firmware: 2.0-5
pve-ha-manager: 2.0-5
pve-i18n: 1.0-6
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.11.2-1
pve-xtermjs: 1.0-5
qemu-server: 5.0-29
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1
spiceterm: 3.0-5
vncterm: 1.5-3
zfsutils-linux: 0.7.9-pve1~bpo9

 

[Davide Davini]

Hi all,

I solved it for now. I wrote a systemd service that starts the VM's.

It's very crude, but if someone is interested:

/etc/systemd/system/startup_vms.service

[Unit]
Description=Startup VMs
Wants=ssh.service
Wants=pve-manager.service
Wants=pveproxy.service
Requires=nfs-client.target
After=nfs-client.target
After=pvedaemon.service
After=ssh.service
After=pveproxy.service
After=pve-manager.service
After=pve-guests.service
After=spiceproxy.service
After=pvedaemon.service
After=pve-cluster.service
After=rrdcached.service
After=open-iscsi.service
After=iscsid.service
After=networking.service
After=apparmor.service
After=lvm2-monitor.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/svms.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

/usr/local/bin/svms.sh

#!/bin/bash
sleep 30
qm start 102
sleep 30
qm start 101
sleep 30
qm start 100
sleep 30
qm start 104

I'll make the monster nicer when I have time.