[PVE-User] VM stuck in start

[Gerald Brandt]

On 2016-04-24 04:59 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> On 25/04/2016 6:38 AM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>> I have a VM stuck in start. It's not actually starting, and there 
>> doesn't seem to be anything I can do to unstick it.
>>
>> 28128 ?        Ds     0:00 task 
>> UPID:erl-proxmox-1:00006DE0:0237B4E5:571D1C86:qmstart:111:root at pam:
>>
>> How do I get this thing to start. I'm currently remote, so can't hard 
>> reset the Proxmox server... not that I really want to.
>
>
> I presume the VMID is "111"?
>
> try
> systemctl stop 111.scope
>
> then
>
> qm start 111
>

I ended up hard resetting the server with

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

This happens almost weekly, so I'll try your suggestion next time and 
report back.

Gerald