[Lxc-users] unstoppable container

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Papp Tamás (tompos at martos.bme.hu):
> Daniel Lezcano wrote, On 2010. 08. 30. 13:08:
> > Usually, there is a mechanism used in lxc to kill -9 the process 1 of 
> > the container (which wipes out all the processes of the containers) 
> > when lxc-start dies.
> 
> It should wipe out them, but in my case it was unsuccessfull, even if I 
> killed the init process by hand.
> 
> > So if you still have the processes running inside the container but 
> > lxc-start is dead, then:
> >   * you are using a 2.6.32 kernel which is buggy (this mechanism is 
> > broken).
> 
> Ubuntu 10.04, so it's exactly the point, the kernel is 2.6.32 .
> 
> 
> Could you point me (or the Ubuntu guy in the list) to an URL, which 
> describes the problem or maybe to the kernel patch. If it's possible, 
> maybe the Ubuntu kernel maintainers would fix the official Ubuntu kernel.

Daniel,

which patch are you talking about?  (presumably a patch against
zap_pid_ns_processes()?)  If it's keeping containers from properly
shutting down, we may be able to SRU a small enough patch, but if
it involves a whole Oleg rewrite then maybe not :)

thanks,
-serge