[Lxc-users] lxc-console: container is stopped?

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 04/19/2011 08:25 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> I have a new container which I cannot attach to (lxc-console):
>
>
> root at zoo:/lxc# /usr/bin/lxc-start -f  egal.cfg -n egal&
> [1] 3800
>
> root at zoo:/lxc# pstree -p 3800
> lxc-start(3800)---init(3801)-+-cron(3857)
>                               |-rsyslogd(3827)-+-{rsyslogd}(3839)
>                               |                `-{rsyslogd}(3840)
>                               |-su(3849)---bash(3854)
>                               |-su(3851)---bash(3860)
>                               `-su(3899)---bash(3903)
>
> root at zoo:/lxc# lxc-console -n egal
> lxc-console: 'egal' is stopped
>
>
> Why is it in mode 'stopped'?

That means lxc-console was not able to find the unix socket and failed 
with an ECONNREFUSED.
It is interpreted the lxc-start supervisor (the container's init parent) 
is not there, so no such container is running.

> How can I debug this?

Yes, let's understand why we can't connect.

(1) strace lxc-console
(2) netstat -lx | grep lxc
For the latter you should see @/var/lib/lxc/egal/command

If I refer to the process tree you gave, I don't see any getty, so I 
suppose you didn't set the tty option in the configuration file, right ?