OMV failed after update : solved

Hi.

I'm running OMV 7. Server was swiched off for two weeks as I was away. On my return yesterday, booted up the OMV server and let it install updates, then it crashed.

Now the OMV web GUI is not available, nor are any of the disks / volumes visible over the network. I can SSH in as root though.

Any suggestions how best to proceed appreciated.

Thanks.

Update. 2 of the 3 networked Volumes are accessible. The Web page GUI just shows "Loading...."

Problem solved.

Finally able to connect to the dashboard, wouln't allow access until about 20 minutes after boot up.

One of the Volumes in Dashboard > Storage > File System : showed "online" and with a valid mount point, but no data on file system (size / space available etc..). Selecting the Volume and then selecting "show details" (triangle symbol) resulted in Timeout.

So using SSH I ran fstab command to rebuild the mount configuration table.

All working fine now.

sudo omv-salt deploy run fstab 

Quote from ryecoaaron

OMV7 is EOL by the way.

True.

Whats the best method to do the upgrade to OMV 8 ?.

If I follow the upgrade guide here OMV7 to OMV8 upgrade guide

When I run: omv-release-upgrade using SSH as root then I get an error

root@Debian-x79:~#  omv-release-upgrade
This system is running a desktop environment! This setup is not supported.

OMV Version 7.7.24-7 (Sandworm) Kernel Linux 6.2.16-20-pve

Should I follow the steps suggested here : Install OMV8 on Debian 13 (Trixie)

Thanks

Quote from ryecoaaron

Make sure all of these packages are not installed - gdm3, sddm, lxdm, xdm, lightdm, slim, wdm apt-get purge will remove them. The run the upgrade again.

The fact that you have a desktop environment installed is bad (servers should not have a gui installed) and uninstalling those packages might break something you are used to using.

Nope. That is to install OMV not upgrade it.

I should have mentioned, that there is no desktop environment - the video card interface (Display Port) only has command line output, but it is connected to a display. The OMV installation was not installed on top of a version of Debian.

Should I run just apt-get purge packagename for each of the packages you listed ?, Or also apt-get autoremove , Or aptitude remove packagename ?.

Thanks.

Quote from ryecoaaron

One may not start automatically but the fact OMV isn't upgrading means one is installed.

sudo apt-get purge gdm3 sddm lxdm xdm lightdm slim wdm

OK so it seems gdm3 was installed.

root@Debian-x79:~# sudo apt-get purge gdm3 sddm lxdm xdm lightdm slim wdm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'sddm' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'lxdm' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'xdm' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'lightdm' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'slim' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'wdm' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gdm3*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 198535 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for gdm3 (43.0-3) ...
Removing crontab ...
Removing user `Debian-gdm' ...
Done.

I then followed the upgrade guide.

However after following all the steps there is a "Pending Configuration Changes" message. When I try to apply the "Pending Configuration Changes" there is an "500 internal server error". see attachement.

The list of "Pending Configuration Changes" are :

Pending configuration changes You must apply these changes in order for them to take effect. The following modules will be updated:

• apt
• apticron
• avahi
• compose
• cpupower
• cterm
• issue
• monit
• nginx
• nut
• phpfpm
• proftpd
• samba
• smartmontools
• ssh
• systemd-journald
• systemd-networkd

Also there are two file system volumes that are no longer visible. Status "Missing". See attached image.

Any ideas ?.

I tried running omv-aptclean repos

As mentioned here RE: OpenPGP signature verification failed

However at step 10 : There is stil an error

W: OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Signing key on 15058500A0235D97F5D10063B188E2B695BD4743 is bad:            The primary key is not live   because: Expired on 2026-02-04T10:25:46Z

Full output of omv-aptclean repos attached

Quote from ryecoaaron

That is a repo you added. You will have to fix it. Looks like you installed a different version of php which is not supported and probably breaking lots of things. I recommend working with chatgpt or something to fix this mess. But this is why you shouldn't change core omv components like php (omv's engine is php and requires a very specific version).

I don't know how that version of php got there.

However in the result from the omv-release-upgrade I see this below, so maybe I've installed something in Docker that pulled in that version of php, I don't know.

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          ID: docker_install_packages
    Function: pkg.installed
      Result: False
     Comment: An error was encountered while installing package(s): W: OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Signing key on 15058500A0235D97F5D10063B188E2B695BD4743 is bad:            The primary key is not live   because: Expired on 2026-02-04T10:25:46Z
              E: The repository 'https://packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease' is not signed.
     Started: 19:08:34.502306
    Duration: 5348.065 ms
     Changes:   

As you suggested I used chatGPT and it was solved relatively quicky.

Thanks for your help anyway.