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[solved] Turnkey Initilization page stuck
I loaded a turnkey owncloud server and initalized it. It ran fine. Did apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
When I went to the page on port 80, it still says Please initialize this system...
I tried doing turnkey-init again. Same thing. Still says Please initialize this system...
I've seen this before and never solved it when it happens. This is running form the LXC template for proxmox 4
Solved:
after several reinstalls, i eventually alloted way way more CPU and RAM and it worked properly. Guess it needed more resources than I had given it.
Replies (7)
There was a bug in the new version
Reply 1That...
Reply 2That actually explains alot. I had the problem with another appliance as well (openvpn)
either way, love turnkey. Keep up the awesomesauce
current version of observium
Reply 3current version of observium is having the same symtoms.
edit: default lxc link grabs 14.0-1, grabbed 14.1-1 instead... when i didnt manually grab 1-1 form http://mirror.turnkeylinux.org/turnkeylinux/images/proxmox/ it never worked properly
So v14.1 works ok, but not v14.0 is that right?
Reply 4I ended up reinstalling
Reply 5This particular issue is long resolved...
Reply 6Whilst your experience may appear the same, as noted in this thread, the issue was resolved. Regardless, something clearly isn't quite right on your server.
To step back a bit, what you are seeing we call the "initfence". It is designed to block all contact with web interfaces on your server until you have logged in via SSH and completed the firstboot scripts (inc things such as setting passwords, regenerating secrets, etc).
Did you go through those questions when you first logged in (via SSH or in the PVE terminal)? As noted by the OP in this thread, they did, then even ran turnkey-init afterwards - but you didn't note whether you did that too?
If you've definitely answered the questions at least once, please double check that the value of 'RUN_FIRSTBOOT' is false. I.e.:
grep RUN_FIRSTBOOT /etc/default/inithooks
Should return:
RUN_FIRSTBOOT=false
If it is 'true', then something has clearly gone wrong.
The logs don't give much detail, but you may get an insight into what went wrong from the log: /var/log/inithooks.log. To check for errors:
grep 'exit code' /var/log/inithooks.log
Please share any errors and/or feel free to post the whole file if you want my 2c.
If everything appears to be working ok otherwise, but 'RUN_FIRSTBOOT=true' then you can manually change that like this:
sed -i "\|^RUN_FIRSTBOOT|s|=.*|=false|" /etc/default/inithooks
And to manually disable the initfence:
_TURNKEY_INIT=y /usr/lib/inithooks/firstboot.d/97turnkey-init-fence-disable
I recommend a reboot to ensure that all is well.
There was actually a bug in the new version of TurnKey (v14.1) that we uploaded but hadn't (still haven't) yet announced. As soon as we discovered it, we rebuilt them and re-uploaded them (without changing the version). So it may not have been obvious that you downloaded a different version.