Vm will not start due to "another task is already in progress" but...

[pete2224]

Now the error just changed to "a general system error occurred" and this says "the action cannot be performed in the current state [Powered Off]."

The machine gets to 95% and seems to freeze in the status bar under Events.

To clarify: machine will not power on when hitting the green arrow in vsphere or when using the menu.

It takes 5 minutes to hit the error.

Preceding this, I had to shutdown a new install of Linux because it froze in the vmsphere window.

I then had to reboot the server where Esxi is installed which I thought would clear it up.

Most directions I found for first error was about snapshots and I don't use that tool.

I'm new to troubleshooting, I just test things out so if anyone could give me some steps, that would be great.

The only other thing I noticed is that when I first reconnected to the host through vsphere, I see that under the status of this vm it says "virtual host on localhost is resumed." Maybe it thinks it's recovered itself?

[Troy_Clavell]

a couple things.  When the VM guests to 95% do you see a question mark?  If you right click on the VM do you get something like question--answer question?

If not, have you tried restarting the managment agents of the host in which this guest is registered on?

[pete2224]

Since the error has changed,  I will mark this answered and repost.

The machine has finally powered on after 4 tries and it is now stuck in some boot window I don't recognize.

I saw this before when it crashed.  No idea why it's saying the filesystem is extfs2 is that on vmware?

It's like it's going at 1% of normal boot speed, now it says GRUB loading stage 2 now it looped back to

root (hd0,4)

FilesystemType is extfs2, partition type 0 x 83

kernel /vmlinuz -3.1.0- 1.2 desktop root=/dev/disk/by-uuid...

There is also a line with initrd /initrd -3.1.0 -1.2 desktop

And it pauses there a long time like 15 minutes and then GRUB starts....

do you know what this is?

And now I just noticed my Windows vm will also not start it's sitting at 95% too.

It just lists a start time for "Power in Virtual Machine."

Does it sound like this install is just corrupted?

[pete2224]

Error has changed so I reposted.