Proxmox - Troubleshooting - noNVC fails to connect with Server disconnected (code: 1006)

Proxmox - Troubleshooting - noNVC fails to connect with Server disconnected (code: 1006)

Trying to connect to a console within Proxmox returns the following error message: Server disconnected (code: 1006).

TASK ERROR: command '/usr/bin/termproxy 5901 --path /nodes/pve --perm Sys.Console -- /bin/login -f root' failed: exit code 1

Regenerate Certificates

SSH into the Proxmox host.

pvecm updatecerts --force
systemctl restart pvedaemon.service
systemctl restart pveproxy.service

NOTE: The certificates are out of sync, so regenerate them.

Revert to default SSL configuration

rm -rf /etc/pve/pve-root-ca.pem
rm -rf /etc/pve/priv/pve-root-ca.key
rm -rf /etc/pve/nodes/pve/pve-ssl.pem
rm -rf /etc/pve/nodes/pve/pve-ssl.key
rm /etc/pve/pve-root-ca.pem /etc/pve/priv/pve-root-ca.key
 
pvecm updatecerts -f
systemctl restart pveproxy

Check Logs

cat /var/log/daemon.log | grep -e pveproxy -e pvedaemon

returns:

...
Jul 21 09:11:48 pve pvedaemon[191274]: <root@pam> successful auth for user 'root@pam'
Jul 21 09:11:55 pve pvedaemon[192394]: starting termproxy UPID:pve:0002EF8A:002A3230:60F7D6CB:vncshell::root@pam:
Jul 21 09:11:55 pve pvedaemon[191276]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:pve:0002EF8A:002A3230:60F7D6CB:vncshell::root@pam:
Jul 21 09:12:05 pve pvedaemon[192394]: command '/usr/bin/termproxy 5900 --path /nodes/pve --perm Sys.Console -- /bin/login -f root' failed: exit code 1
Jul 21 09:12:05 pve pvedaemon[191276]: <root@pam> end task UPID:pve:0002EF8A:002A3230:60F7D6CB:vncshell::root@pam: command '/usr/bin/termproxy 5900 --path /nodes/pve --perm Sys.Console -- /bin/login -f root' failed: exit code 1
Jul 21 09:12:14 pve pvedaemon[192565]: starting vnc proxy UPID:pve:0002F035:002A39AA:60F7D6DE:vncproxy:102:root@pam:
Jul 21 09:12:14 pve pvedaemon[191276]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:pve:0002F035:002A39AA:60F7D6DE:vncproxy:102:root@pam:
Jul 21 09:12:29 pve pvedaemon[191276]: <root@pam> end task UPID:pve:0002F035:002A39AA:60F7D6DE:vncproxy:102:root@pam: OK
Jul 21 09:12:33 pve pvedaemon[192703]: starting lxc termproxy UPID:pve:0002F0BF:002A4103:60F7D6F1:vncproxy:202:root@pam:
Jul 21 09:12:33 pve pvedaemon[191274]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:pve:0002F0BF:002A4103:60F7D6F1:vncproxy:202:root@pam:
Jul 21 09:12:33 pve pvedaemon[191276]: <root@pam> successful auth for user 'root@pam'
...

NOTE: The vncproxy is failing.

Check if the websockify service is running

ps aux |grep websoc

NOTE: The socat package needs to be installed on the server.

Another Approach

Obtain a certificate to allow the Proxmox web interface to work over https.

Then, add this certificate to the list of trusted certificates on the remote PC being used to access Proxmox.

openssl s_client -showcerts -connect 192.168.1.95:8006 /dev/null | openssl x509 -outform PEM > pve.pem

NOTE: Where:

192.168.1.95:8006 is the address of the web interface of the Proxmox hypervisor.
pve.pem is the output file of the certificate.

Then just add this certificate and set the rights to it Always trust.

Reload the Proxmox web page and access to the console should work.