[Lxc-users] Permission denied on lxc-console login

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 02/28/2011 05:10 PM, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> When I try to log into some containers using lxc-console, it says
> "Permission denied" after entering the username and the password (if
> set), i.e. I can't log in.
>
> It happens only to some containers.  For each of the running containers,
> login either always works (until I restart the container) or never
> works.  If it doesn't work, restarting the container doesn't help.  When
> I rebooted the host, the problem disappeared and I could log into all
> running containers.  But later I started another container and the
> problem has occurred again to the newly started container.
>
> I can't find any error message explaining the cause of the problem.  I
> guess containers started sooner are fine, while containers started later
> are not.  The system is standard Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 with only 15
> containers defined.
>
> Any idea what might be wrong or how to find out more about the problem?

Can you give the following informations:

* lxc version
* kernel version
* the starting log result from the failing container with the "-o mylog 
-l DEBUG" options

we may need more informations, but later.

Thanks

   -- Daniel