[lxc-devel] Starting lxc via systemd on openSUSE: "action: command not found"

[Dwight Engen]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:38:10 -0400
"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 21:22 +0200, Johannes Kastl wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I tried to get some lxc containers to start on openSUSE, but could
> > not get the systemd-service to start:
> > 
> > > sudo systemctl status lxc.service lxc.service - LXC Container
> > > Initialization and Autoboot Code Loaded: loaded
> > > (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lxc.service; disabled) Active: failed
> > > (Result: exit-code) since Di 2014-08-12 10:41:47 CEST; 5s ago 
> > > Process: 2792 ExecStart=/usr/lib/lxc/lxc-autostart-helper start
> > > (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 2790
> > > ExecStartPre=/usr/lib/lxc/lxc-devsetup (code=exited,
> > > status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 2792 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> > > 
> > > Aug 12 10:41:47 XXX lxc-autostart-helper[2792]:
> > > /usr/lib/lxc/lxc-autostart-helper: line 101: action: command not
> > > found Aug 12 10:41:47 XXX lxc-autostart-helper[2792]: [73B blob
> > > data] Aug 12 10:41:47 XXX systemd[1]: lxc.service: main process
> > > exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 12 10:41:47 XXX
> > > systemd[1]: Failed to start LXC Container Initialization and
> > > Autoboot Code. Aug 12 10:41:47 XXX systemd[1]: Unit lxc.service
> > > entered failed state.
> > 
> > The reason seem to be lines containing 'action' in
> > /usr/lib/lxc-autostart-helper:
> > 
> > > $ grep -C 2 action /usr/lib/lxc/lxc-autostart-helper 
> > > wait_for_bridge # Start autoboot containers first then the NULL
> > > group "onboot,". action $"Starting LXC autoboot containers: "
> > > /usr/bin/lxc-autostart $OPTIONS $BOOTGROUPS touch
> > > "$localstatedir"/lock/subsys/lxc ;; -- # delaying the system
> > > shutdown / reboot as much as we can since it's not #
> > > parallelized...  Even 5 second timout may be too long. action
> > > $"Stopping LXC containers: " "$bindir"/lxc-autostart $STOPOPTS
> > > $SHUTDOWNDELAY rm -f "$localstatedir"/lock/subsys/lxc ;;
> > 
> > I have never seen a shell command action before, so maybe this is
> > some systemd/sysvinit-related thing? Why does this not work on
> > openSUSE? Maybe the rc-file is not sourced (I remember there is a
> > file being sourced, I just do not have the autostart-helper script
> > right here...)?
> 
> The "action" command is a sysvinit'ism.  It's actually a function
> that's picked up out of "$sysconfdir"/rc.d/init.d/functions which I'm
> guessing you're missing.  That "helper" is actually the sysvinit
> script run when running under Sysvinit.  This could be a problem
> that'll fall in Dwight's or my lap.  I'll see what can be done to
> eliminate that dependency as I'm already up to my eyeballs in the

Martin Pitt's recent patch titled "[lxc-devel] [PATCH 4/6] systemd:
Ensure action() is defined" should fix this.

> init scripts as it is right now.  If all we need is "action" we may
> be able to replace it with a more neutral expression.
> 
> > Any openSUSE-users out there?
> 
> > Regards,
> > Johannes
> 
> Regards,
> Mike