LVE creation fails after reboot on CloudLinux 8 (cgroup v1) with kmod-lve 2.1-78 / 2.1-79

Incident Report for CloudLinux

Update

Update, October 7, 2026

The fixed build, kmod-lve 2.1-80, is in the beta channel since October 7. The package changelog lists CLKRN-2367 (changelog.cloudlinux.com does not show 2.1-80 yet). To install it on an affected CloudLinux 8 server with cgroup v1, run as root and then reboot:

dnf update kmod-lve --enablerepo=cloudlinux-updates-testing
reboot

If you added kmod-lve to the exclude= line in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf earlier, remove it first, otherwise dnf will skip the package

A staged rollout of 2.1-80 to the stable channel has been requested, and this incident will be updated when it lands

Please note that kmod-lve 2.1-78 reached the stable channel on October 6, so a regular dnf update now installs it. If your CloudLinux 8 server runs cgroup v1 and has not been updated yet, add kmod-lve to (or keep it on) the exclude= line in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf until the fixed build is in the stable channel, or install 2.1-80 from the beta channel as shown above. Servers on cgroup v2 are not affected
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 16:07 UTC

Update

A fixed kmod-lve build will list CLKRN-2367 in its changelog: https://changelog.cloudlinux.com/search?value=CLKRN-2367
Posted Oct 06, 2026 - 23:22 UTC

Identified

On some CloudLinux 8 servers using cgroup v1, after updating to kmod-lve 2.1-78 or 2.1-79 and rebooting, LVEs cannot be created.
Websites return 508 Resource Limit Is Reached, and the kernel log repeats lines like these (the numbers differ per server and account):
LVE: [NNNN] init_lve: subsys 2 lveNNNN err -2
LVE: [NNNN] _lve_enter: Can't alloc ve #NNNN lvp #0, rc -22
CloudLinux 8 servers on cgroup v2 are not affected.

Workaround:
Go back to kmod-lve 2.1-76 and keep it until the fixed build is released. Run as root (use 2.1-79 in the remove command if that is the installed build):

dnf install kmod-lve-2.1-76.el8
dnf remove kmod-lve-2.1-78.el8
reboot

Then add kmod-lve to the exclude= line in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf; otherwise, the next update installs the affected build again.

An alternative that keeps 2.1-78/2.1-79 is described in the article below.

For more info, please check:
https://cloudlinux.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/30857405854620-LVE-Creation-Fails-with-init-lve-subsys-2-err-2-After-Updating-kmod-lve-to-2-1-78
Posted Oct 06, 2026 - 23:09 UTC
This incident affects: CloudLinux OS Components (CloudLinux Kernel).