Couldn't start virtual machines after Proxmox 4.1 upgrade

We have a running Proxmox 4.0 setup on 2 Debian Jessie server with a few container machines. Recently we decided to upgrade both of the servers and Proxmox components with:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

After upgrading Proxmox 4.1, we got a strange problem on one of the servers.

Corosync service failed to start and gives following errors but we don’t have a cluster before:

Jan 10 02:35:37 server1 pmxcfs[1065]: [quorum] crit: quorum_initialize failed: 2
Jan 10 02:35:37 server1 pmxcfs[1065]: [confdb] crit: cmap_initialize failed: 2
Jan 10 02:35:37 server1 pmxcfs[1065]: [dcdb] crit: cpg_initialize failed: 2
Jan 10 02:35:37 server1 pmxcfs[1065]: [status] crit: cpg_initialize failed: 2

We see that there is a corosync.conf file under /etc/pve directory and it is not possible to delete it. It comes from lxcfs mount.

Disabling corosync service on start also doesn’t make sense.

Any suggestions?

If you’re sure about you’re not using any clustering feature and you have a corosync.conf file by a mistake, you can remove the corosync configuration file with following steps:

  • First of all, backup your current proxmox sqlite config:
$ sudo cp /var/lib/pve-cluster/config.db /root/config.db.backup
  • Stop the pve-cluster service:
$ sudo systemctl stop pve-cluster.service
  • Remove the row with named corosync.conf from sqlite tree table:
$ sudo sqlite3 /var/lib/pve-cluster/config.db
sqlite> DELETE FROM tree WHERE name='corosync.conf';
sqlite> .quit
  • Restart the server

@demirten Thanks you for your answer. It really helped me. When removing a node I got the same error message in proxmox but that has now been solved with your solution. THANKS