[Lxc-users] On clean shutdown of Ubuntu 10.04 containers

[Trent W. Buck]

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn at canonical.com>
writes:

> Quoting Trent W. Buck (twb at cybersource.com.au):
>> Unfortunately, lxc 0.7's utmp detect requires /var/run to NOT be a
>> tmpfs.  The shipped lxc-ubuntu script works around this by deleting the
>> ifstate file and not mounting a tmpfs on /var/run, but to me that is
>> simply waiting for something else to assume /var/run is empty.  It also
>> doesn't cope with a mountall upgrade rewriting /lib/init/fstab.
>
> Note that how to handle clean shutdown is one of the open topics.
> So if you're interested in helping to properly fix that, please
> feel free to join our development call this coming thursday morning,
> as per announcement last week :)
>
> IIRC Daniel L. had a kernel patch to help fix this workaround?  He
> was experimenting with it at UDS-N.

Sure, but I feel safer patching container's userland than the production
server's kernel, so for me the "right" fix will need to wait until April
2012 (the next Ubuntu LTS).