[Lxc-users] cannot start any more any container?!

[Papp Tamas]

On 10/19/2011 07:24 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> Besides my problem with "cannot stop/kill lxc-start" (see other mail), I
> have now an even more severe problem: I cannot start ANY container anymore!
>
> I am sure I have overlooked something, but I cannot see what. I am really
> desperate now, because this happens to my production environment!
>
> Server host is:
>
> root at vms1:/lxc# lsb_release -a; uname -a; lxc-version
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
> Release:        10.04
> Codename:       lucid
> Linux vms1 2.6.35-30-server #60~lucid1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 20 22:28:40 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> lxc version: 0.7.4.1
>
> (linux-image-server-lts-backport-maverick)
>
> All my lxc files reside in /lxc :
>
> root at vms1:/lxc# l vmtest1*
> dRWX               - 2011-05-17 19:47 vmtest1
> -RWT           1,127 2011-10-19 18:54 vmtest1.cfg
> -RW-             476 2011-10-19 18:54 vmtest1.fstab
>
> I boot the container with:
>
> root at vms1:/lxc# lxc-start -f /data/lxc/vmtest1.cfg -n vmtest1 -d -o /data/lxc/vmtest1.log

What is in log if you don't use -d but -l DEBUG?

> But nothing happens, there is only a lxc-start process dangling around:
>
> root at vms1:/lxc# psg vmtest1
> USER       PID  PPID %CPU    VSZ COMMAND
> root     31571     1  0.0  20872 lxc-start -f /data/lxc/vmtest1.cfg -n vmtest1 -d -o /data/lxc/vmtest1.log

ps axf ?

> The logfile is empty:
>
> root at vms1:/lxc# l vmtest1.log
> -RW-               0 2011-10-19 19:09 vmtest1.log

What about strace -ff -s 10000 ?

tamas