Proxmox 7 pmxcfs failed: recovery without reboot
Failing Proxmox node and unable to access /etc/pve means that you have broken pmxcf.
killall -9 pmxcf
systemctl restart pve-cluster
Analyse which services are stuck:
ps -eo pid,stat,comm,wchan:32 | grep ' D '
Restart services:
systemctl restart pvedaemon pveproxy pvescheduler
And in case it was stuck at updating certs (on which it got stuck in my case):
pvecm updatecerts --force
In case UI is still unavailable:
systemctl restart pvedaemon pveproxy pvescheduler
systemctl restart corosync
In my case, at this point it was fine.