Web GUI is blank - SSH works

[esi_y]

It does. Would you have a guide to doing that so I can test it, please?

Not for Windows. Google finds this. (It looks old but I do not think this has changed in Win.)

You already have static IP on that PVE host, so you would just need to set the same subnet one in Windows.

Just disconnect anything else, leave the two connected.

BEFORE you do that, another last shot in the dark effort from me:

ip link set dev enp0s7 mtu 1400

Can you run this on your PVE, then try to load? No proxy needed for this test.

 

[gartzea]

Not for Windows. Google finds this.

You already have static IP on that PVE host, so you would just need to set the same subnet one in Windows.

Just disconnect anything else, leave the two connected.

BEFORE you do that, another last shot in the dark effort from me:

ip link set dev enp0s7 mtu 1400

Can you run this on your PVE, then try to load? No proxy needed for this test.

No luck with that as well. I'll try the other option and get back.

 

[gartzea]

Not for Windows. Google finds this. (It looks old but I do not think this has changed in Win.)

You already have static IP on that PVE host, so you would just need to set the same subnet one in Windows.

Just disconnect anything else, leave the two connected.

BEFORE you do that, another last shot in the dark effort from me:

ip link set dev enp0s7 mtu 1400

Can you run this on your PVE, then try to load? No proxy needed for this test.

Connected both machines together and still no luck.

I verified the connection worked by pinging one another and SSH into the PVE host.

 

[esi_y]

SO ... Since all this failed, I can only suggest try something completely else to check if the hardware is all good.

I would install e.g Fedora (Server Network install is fine), a quick run with root allowed over SSH, then upon first boot:
dnf install cockpit

Then the question is, will the http://$ip_of_the_host:9090 load for you?

I mean it's completely different system, different stack, same network hardware, routing, same browser...

 

[esi_y]

Basically since you confirmed the phone also did not load it well, I do not think it's your browser(s). The direct link connection also eliminated the router. We had checked for duplicate IP before, set low enough MTU for whatever strange firmware ISP could have had on the router. Tunnelling through proxy was slow however, that's just very weird.

So suppose the above (Fedora) and cockpit works just fine, then second to try would be to install Debian, then cockpit, compare (if that does not work, I would wonder about kernel, network driver). If that works, add PVE (that will also not be ISO install anymore, so additional discrepancy out of the way). If then and only then you have a problem, that will be fun.

 

[gartzea]

I ended up calling a friend to help me in person, and we concluded that my AMD Phenom X2 550 wasn't able to run PVE properly.

Thanks a lot for your dedication @esi_y and @bbgeek17

 

[esi_y]

I ended up calling a friend to help me in person, and we concluded that my AMD Phenom X2 550 wasn't able to run PVE properly.

For serving pveproxy's static JavaScript? With no error messages in the journal? Nope.

Thanks a lot for your dedication @esi_y and @bbgeek17

Can you run regular Debian or Ubuntu on that hardware?

 

[gartzea]

For serving pveproxy's static JavaScript? With no error messages in the journal? Nope.



Can you run regular Debian or Ubuntu on that hardware?

I should have clarified better. We believe either the CPU or the motherboard's NIC is defective. It's probably the CPU since we tested with another CPU, and everything worked as intended. Anything that interfaces with the web using the hardware combination I was using is incredibly slow or inoperative. We even tried to spin up a basic Minecraft server (using Ubuntu) to test it out and the experience was horrible, although the CPU usage did not get above 25%.

It's currently not worth it for me to troubleshoot such old hardware, so I'm moving on from it.

To answer your question: Ubuntu runs just fine. Anything that uses the internet (local or not), is very slow.

 

[esi_y]

We believe either the CPU or the motherboard's NIC is defective. It's probably the CPU since we tested with another CPU, and everything worked as intended.

To answer your question: Ubuntu runs just fine. Anything that uses the internet (local or not), is very slow.

Thanks! I was just curious, because software stack-wise, that should have been fine. Could have been a good system for LXCs...

 

[gartzea]

Thanks! I was just curious, because software stack-wise, that should have been fine. Could have been a good system for LXCs...

Yes! I'll keep this machine and try to put a network card in it in the future. For now it doesn't do much though.