WebGUI Console freezes on VM boot

astro666

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Aug 9, 2024
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Hi,

I have a strange one. I am running Ubuntu Server 24.04 on the latest release of Proxmox, freshly installed today. When I boot the VM and open the console (noVNC) it will run through the boot process but the session will 'freeze' at some point about halfway through the boot process. I can close the console window and reopen it, and it's still stuck at that spot. The window is non responsive and doesn't respond to any input.
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SSHing into my server shows its booted and working fine, so it's like there is a specific issue or driver incompatibility for noVNC where the screen/KVM controller 'freezes' at that point in time.

I've tried default, standard VGA, VMWare compatible graphics card settings with no luck.Interestingly my VM wont successfully boot if I try and use the VirtIO-GPU option.

Ive accessed the console from Safari,and from chrome, with the same issue.

Any ideas?
Thanks
 

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Output from the command line on the host:

Code:
root@proxmox-1:~# qm terminal vmid
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
400 Parameter verification failed.
vmid: type check ('integer') failed - got 'vmid'
qm terminal <vmid> [OPTIONS]
 
Hello,
An update. I've found this 100% reproducible on new VMs of Ubuntu server 24.04. Even if there is a full PCI passthrough of the GPU (thus outputting VM display on external monitor) the vnc console still 'freezes' on the boot sequence. I have tried most display types (except virGL), with no luck.

To the question above, sorry I misunderstood. Output as follows (same behaviour on all ubuntu vms).
[CODE
root@proxmox-1:~# qm terminal 102 -iface serial0
starting serial terminal on interface serial0 (press Ctrl+O to exit)


[/CODE]
Nothing appears within the terminal, no login or anything. Rebooting the VM while connected to the serial shows the PVE boot sequence but not the VM boot sequence.
 
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