---
title: "Proxmox 7 pmxcfs failed: recovery without reboot"
url: https://michalasobczak.pl/posts/proxmox-7-pmxcfs-failed-recovery-without-reboot.html
author: "Michał Sobczak"
description: "Failing Proxmox node and unable to access /etc/pve means that you have broken pmxcf."
published: 2025-04-15T15:09:36.000Z
updated: 2025-04-15T15:09:36.000Z
language: en
categories: ["Technology"]
tags: []
license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
---
# Proxmox 7 pmxcfs failed: recovery without reboot

Failing Proxmox node and unable to access /etc/pve means that you have broken pmxcf.

```bash
killall -9 pmxcf
systemctl restart pve-cluster
```

Analyse which services are stuck:

```text
ps -eo pid,stat,comm,wchan:32 | grep ' D '
```

Restart services:

```bash
systemctl restart pvedaemon pveproxy pvescheduler
```

And in case it was stuck at updating certs (on which it got stuck in my case):

```text
pvecm updatecerts --force
```

In case UI is still unavailable:

```bash
systemctl restart pvedaemon pveproxy pvescheduler
systemctl restart corosync
```

In my case, at this point it was fine.