[lxc-devel] [PATCH] debian: Symlink /etc/mtab

[Holger Amann]

/etc/mtab doesn’t exist after bootstrapping a debian container, and will be created as regular file after first start.
That leads to at least two errors:

- output of `mount` is wrong and get messed up the more often you start/stop the container
- /dev/pts/ptmx has wrong permissions

Signed-off-by: Holger Amann <holger at sauspiel.de>
---
templates/lxc-debian.in | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/templates/lxc-debian.in b/templates/lxc-debian.in
index 7ad8e3c..63a44a6 100644
--- a/templates/lxc-debian.in
+++ b/templates/lxc-debian.in
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ EOF
        echo "Timezone in container is not configured. Adjust it manually."
    fi

+    # symlink mtab
+    ln -s /proc/self/mounts $rootfs/etc/mtab
+
    echo "root:root" | chroot $rootfs chpasswd
    echo "Root password is 'root', please change !"

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