Google Compute Engine VM instance start up failed

Question

After upgrading from free trial, I am trying to start up my VM instance. I got this error:

Starting VM instance "server3" failed. Error: The default network interface [nic0] is frozen.

How can I fix it?

Answer 1

To diagnose Google Compute Engine VM startup, since you cannot yet SSH or RDP into it, use serial port access.

As I wrote in another answer on SO, you can use any of the following methods:

• Web UI via Developers Console – on the instance detail page, scroll to the bottom of the page and expand the console output view
• CLI via gcloud compute instances get-serial-port-output
• API via getSerialPortOutput

In addition, you can also enable read/write access via these instructions to enable you to interactively debug the issue:

gcloud compute instances add-metadata [INSTANCE_NAME] \
    --metadata=serial-port-enable=1

and then either connect to it using Google Cloud Console or gcloud command as described on this page.

Answer 2

Known issue from Google side, check my post for workaround here