VMs and LXC Containers Showing as "Unknown" After Power Outage (Proxmox 8.3.3)
Hello everyone,
I’m running Proxmox 8.3.3, and after a brief power outage (just a few minutes) which caused my system to shut down abruptly, I’ve encountered an issue where the status of all my VMs and LXC containers is now showing as "Unknown." I also can't find the configuration files for the containers or VMs anywhere.
Here’s a quick summary of what I’ve observed:
- All VMs and containers show up with the status "Unknown" in the Proxmox GUI.
- I can’t start any of the VMs or containers.
- The configuration files for the VMs and containers appear to be missing.
- The system itself seems to be running fine otherwise, but the VM and container management seems completely broken.
I’ve tried rebooting the server a couple of times, but the issue persists. I’m not sure if this is due to some corruption caused by the sudden shutdown or something else, but I’m at a loss for how to resolve this.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Any advice on how I can recover my VMs and containers or locate the missing config files would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Health status
root@proxmox01:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.1G 1.3M 3.1G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root 102G 47G 51G 48% /
tmpfs 16G 34M 16G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
efivarfs 128K 37K 87K 30% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme1n1p1 916G 173G 697G 20% /mnt/storage
/dev/sda2 511M 336K 511M 1% /boot/efi
/dev/fuse 128M 32K 128M 1% /etc/pve
tmpfs 3.1G 0 3.1G 0% /run/user/0root@proxmox01:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda3 8:3 0 111.3G 0 part
├─pve-swap 252:0 0 8G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─pve-root 252:1 0 103.3G 0 lvm /
sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 3.6T 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 7.3T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 7.3T 0 part
sdd 8:48 0 7.3T 0 disk
└─sdd1 8:49 0 7.3T 0 part
sde 8:64 0 3.6T 0 disk
└─sde1 8:65 0 3.6T 0 part
nvme1n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─nvme1n1p1 259:3 0 931.5G 0 part /mnt/storage
nvme0n1 259:1 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─nvme0n1p1 259:2 0 1.8T 0 part
root@proxmox01:~# qm list
root@proxmox01:~# pct list
root@proxmox01:~# lxc-ls --fancy
NAME STATE AUTOSTART GROUPS IPV4 IPV6 UNPRIVILEGED
101 STOPPED 0 - - - true
104 STOPPED 0 - - - true
105 STOPPED 0 - - - false
106 STOPPED 0 - - - true
107 STOPPED 0 - - - false
108 STOPPED 0 - - - true
109 STOPPED 0 - - - true
110 STOPPED 0 - - - false
111 STOPPED 0 - - - true
114 STOPPED 0 - - - true
root@proxmox01:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 8.3.0 (running kernel: 6.8.12-7-pve)
pve-manager: 8.3.3 (running version: 8.3.3/f157a38b211595d6)
proxmox-kernel-helper: 8.1.0
pve-kernel-5.15: 7.4-15
proxmox-kernel-6.8: 6.8.12-7
proxmox-kernel-6.8.12-7-pve-signed: 6.8.12-7
proxmox-kernel-6.8.12-2-pve-signed: 6.8.12-2
pve-kernel-5.15.158-2-pve: 5.15.158-2
pve-kernel-5.15.74-1-pve: 5.15.74-1
ceph-fuse: 16.2.15+ds-0+deb12u1
corosync: 3.1.7-pve3
criu: 3.17.1-2+deb12u1
glusterfs-client: 10.3-5
ifupdown2: 3.2.0-1+pmx11
ksm-control-daemon: 1.5-1
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-5
libknet1: 1.28-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.5.1
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.4.1
libproxmox-rs-perl: 0.3.4
libpve-access-control: 8.2.0
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.3.2
libpve-cluster-api-perl: 8.0.10
libpve-cluster-perl: 8.0.10
libpve-common-perl: 8.2.9
libpve-guest-common-perl: 5.1.6
libpve-http-server-perl: 5.1.2
libpve-network-perl: 0.10.0
libpve-rs-perl: 0.9.1
libpve-storage-perl: 8.3.3
libspice-server1: 0.15.1-1
lvm2: 2.03.16-2
lxc-pve: 6.0.0-1
lxcfs: 6.0.0-pve2
novnc-pve: 1.5.0-1
proxmox-backup-client: 3.3.2-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 3.3.2-2
proxmox-firewall: 0.6.0
proxmox-kernel-helper: 8.1.0
proxmox-mail-forward: 0.3.1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.4.0
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 4.3.4
pve-cluster: 8.0.10
pve-container: 5.2.3
pve-docs: 8.3.1
pve-edk2-firmware: 4.2023.08-4
pve-esxi-import-tools: 0.7.2
pve-firewall: 5.1.0
pve-firmware: 3.14-3
pve-ha-manager: 4.0.6
pve-i18n: 3.3.3
pve-qemu-kvm: 9.0.2-5
pve-xtermjs: 5.3.0-3
qemu-server: 8.3.6
smartmontools: 7.3-pve1
spiceterm: 3.3.0
swtpm: 0.8.0+pve1
vncterm: 1.8.0
zfsutils-linux: 2.2.7-pve1
