#troubleshooting
Every post tagged troubleshooting.
Recovering From LVM-Thin Metadata Exhaustion on Proxmox VE
A Proxmox VE thin pool can hit 100% metadata usage while data space still looks fine, sending VMs into read-only I/O errors. Here's how to diagnose it with lvs and dmsetup, fix it live with lvextend, and stop it from recurring.
Diagnosing and Fixing Failed Proxmox VE Storage Replication Jobs
ZFS-based replication keeps Proxmox VE HA working without a SAN, but jobs fail quietly from broken snapshot chains, renamed storage IDs, and full target pools. Here's how to read pvesr's errors, find the real root cause, and trust the GUI again.
Diagnosing GPU Passthrough Failures on Proxmox VE 9.x: IOMMU Groups, VFIO Binding, and Reset Quirks
GPU passthrough breaks in a handful of predictable ways: driver race conditions at boot, messy IOMMU groups, GPUs that won't reset cleanly, and firmware unity-map restrictions on newer hardware. Here's how to diagnose and fix each one on Proxmox VE 9.x.
Diagnosing and Fixing Flapping Ceph OSDs in a Proxmox VE Hyper-Converged Cluster
A field-tested workflow for diagnosing flapping and down Ceph OSDs on Proxmox VE 9.2 clusters: network, disk, memory, and clock-skew root causes, with exact pveceph and ceph CLI commands to stabilize and fix the cluster.
Troubleshooting Corosync Cluster Communication Failures in Proxmox VE
A practical field guide to diagnosing and fixing corosync communication failures in Proxmox VE clusters, covering symptoms, root causes, diagnostic commands, redundant link configuration, and best practices to prevent HA fencing incidents.
How to Fix the "No Valid Subscription" Error in Proxmox VE
Seeing the "No valid subscription" pop-up in Proxmox VE? Learn what it means and how to switch to the free no-subscription repository so updates work again, step by step.