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

[Michael H. Warfield]

This is going to be addressed in an upcoming patch.  It was a failure in
an earlier patch from another individual.

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...)?
> 
> Any openSUSE-users out there?
> 
> Regards,
> Johannes
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