[Lxc-users] Problems after udev upgrade.

[John Lewis]

On 27/09/10 13:57, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting John Lewis (jlewis at johnlewis.ie):
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I created a new container the other week using the template script
>> bundled with the latest stable version of LXC. I figured it would
>> probably be ok to do that even though I only have the userspace tools
>> that come with Ubuntu 10.04 (0.6.5 or there abouts).
>>
>> I couldn't understand why nothing was getting upgraded after a week or
>> two when running apt-get update and found that the updates repository
>> wasn't enabled in sources.list. I duly enabled same and the next apt-get
>> upgrade installed new versions of udev, mountall, etc. and of course
>> failed configuring udev. I got around that issue by using
>> http://www.emanuelis.eu/2010/09/15/mknod-lib-udev-devices-ppp-operation-not-permitted-when-updating-ubuntu-10-04-on-virtual-lxc-machine/
>> but did not come to reboot the container till last night.
>
> While it'll likely cause problems at some point, I think the lxc-ubuntu
> template should pin the versions of those packages.  There's probably
> a more maintainable way of handling this - like either having our own
> post-upgrade hooks which undo badness from those packages, or just
> keep a set of lxc package archives.
>
>> After reboot I get "lxc-console: console denied by 'server'" when trying
>> to get console access. I also got a pty error trying to SSH in which was
>> fixed by copying an older /etc/init from backup.
>>
>> The main problem I have now is that init isn't booting the runlevel
>> properly and I have to type "telinit 2" from inside the container to get
>> all the services come up. Can anyone help me please?
>
> Search the archives for udev, someone had this problem before and
> documented the fix.
>
> -serge

And FYI:

echo udev hold | dpkg --set-selections

as per 
http://www.mail-archive.com/lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00670.html wouldn't 
hold udev back for me I used Emanuelis' method from 
http://www.emanuelis.eu/2010/09/15/mknod-lib-udev-devices-ppp-operation-not-permitted-when-updating-ubuntu-10-04-on-virtual-lxc-machine/ 
to get around the udev upgrade problem.

John.