I use Proxmox for my clustering. Unfortunately when upgrading it with a standard apt upgrade recently it would hang when it would get to pve-ha-manager. Nothing I did would resolve this, and it would hang the system.
To fix this, I did the following.
- kill the update process from another session (
ps -ef | grep apt, find the process,kill [process ID])- Note: it’s possible you’ll have to kill
dpkgor similar, but basically ensure the update has stopped completely
- Note: it’s possible you’ll have to kill
- Mask the VM guests from starting with (
systemctl mask pve-guests.service) - Reboot the system
- Fix broken package updates (
dpkg --configure -a) - Rerun the updates (
apt dist-upgrade) - Re-enable VM guests on boot (
systemctl unmask pve-guests.service) - Reboot the system again
This should resolve the issue and let you continue normally.