[lxc-devel] Fedora containers don't appear to boot

[Matty]

Howdy,

I grabbed the latest lxc bits from git, and installed them on my
Fedora 11 host (this system is running a 2.6.30 kernel from rawhide).
With the lxc-fedora changes I submitted to the list earlier today, I
am able to install a Fedora container with lxc-fedora:

$ lxc-fedora create
What is the name for the container ? [fedora] fedora
What hostname do you wish for this container ? [fedora] fedora
What IP address do you wish for this container ? [172.20.0.21] 192.168.1.200
What is the gateway IP address ? [172.20.0.1] 192.168.1.1
What is the MTU size ? [1500]
Checking cache download ...Found.
Copying rootfs ...Done.
Done.

When I run 'lxc-start -n fedora', the container appears to hang (I
left it running over night, and it didn't make any progress booting).
The only active process I see is udevadm:

root      1848  0.0  0.0  11112  1224 ?        Ss   12:37   0:00
/bin/sh -e -c ?runlevel --set S >/dev/null ||
true???/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit ??runlevel --reboot || true? /bin/sh
root      1853  0.0  0.0  11380  1680 ?        S    12:37   0:00
/bin/bash /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
root      1885  0.0  0.0  11380  1620 ?        S    12:37   0:00
/bin/bash /sbin/start_udev
root      1911  0.0  0.0  10324   524 ?        S<s  12:37   0:00 /sbin/udevd -d
root      2009  0.5  0.0   8232   688 ?        S    12:37   0:00
/sbin/udevadm settle

Which appears to be repeatedly checking for the existence of
/dev/.udev/queue and then opening the seqnum file (the following five
lines loop over and over):

nanosleep({0, 50000000}, NULL)          = 0
stat("/dev/.udev/queue", 0x7fffd1dc2940) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "2039\n"..., 32)                = 5
close(3)                                = 0


I'm not entirely sure if there is a specific event that needs to occur
to allow the daemon to continue, but the fact that it hangs seems odd.
Has anyone on the list seen this behavior with their Fedora guests? I
checked the archives for solutions, but didn't seeing anything that
matched. :(

Thanks for any insight,
- Ryan
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