[Lxc-users] Alternative to Debian Testing? No Prompt upon lxc-console execution

Wed Feb 22 17:25:27 UTC 2012

These may be idiotically simple suggestions, but I've been caught in these
situations:

Sometimes when I use lxc-console, I don't see anything until I press
"enter". Try this first.

Also, what happens if you start  the container without the -d option? Does
it bring you into a console then? lxc-console won't work, if lxc-start
(sans daemon option) doesn't bring you to a prompt (at least in my
experience with LXC in Squeeze).

Martin

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Terry--gmail <terry.kemmerer at gmail.com>wrote:

> **
> For the record, I'm not married to using Testing repositories. I just need
> a way to
> get working squeeze containers....that at my dummy level I can create and
> work with. :)
>
> I wasn't using wheezy, I was using debian squeeze on my host node and added
> the associated Testing Repositories to my /etc/apt/sources.list:
> *
> deb ftp://ftp.lt.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib*
>  *deb-src ftp://ftp.lt.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib*
>
> To install lxc and then disabled the above testing repositories.
>
> Also, the notes that I found telling me to use the testing repositories
> didn't mention
> the modifications you listed or to use the lxc-create command, so I had
> tried to implement
> it like I had done for the lenny container earlier.
>
> By the way, are there any step by step instructions anywhere?
>
> And just to be clear, are you saying I need to install wheezy on my Host
> Node, then add the Testing repositories
> to get a working squeeze container?
>
>
>
> On 02/22/2012 04:56 AM, Bekir Dogan wrote:
>
> You must have:
> * "lxc.tty = ... " in your lxc config file (possibly in
> /var/lib/lxc/containername/config)
> * console in your continer rootfs: (possibly in
> /var/lib/lxc/containername/rootfs/)
> You can create this by something like this
> # cd /var/lib/lxc/containername/rootfs/
> # mknod -m 666 /dev/tty1 c 4 1
> # mknod -m 666 /dev/tty2 c 4 2
>
> I assume you are using debian testing (wheezy), if you create new
> containers like this command:
> # sudo lxc-create -t debian -n containername
>
> It asks you some questions and handles many conditions, like this one,
> automatically.
>
> bekir
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 03:12, Terry--gmail <terry.kemmerer at gmail.com> <terry.kemmerer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  My problem is, I need squeeze in my containers and if anyone knows of a path
> for doing this that has
> some good instructions, I'd really appreciate knowing where that is.
>
> This is my first query to the mail list and if I am not suppose to ask a
> Debian Testing question,
> please let me know...
>
> So far, the only way I have found that offers squeeze, is using Debian
> Testing, which appears to work
> just fine, and I can ping the container both from my host and my LAN,
> but...when I try to enter the
> container via lxc-console, it doesn't take me to the container's prompt
> command line....the situation
> looks to me like probably a simple programming syntax error of some kind.
> Below is what happens...
>
> root at server:/# lxc-start -n vm101 -d
> root at server:/# lxc-info -n vm101
> state:   RUNNING
> pid:      7103
> root at server:/# lxc-console -n vm101
>
> Type <Ctrl+a q> to exit the console
>
>     <<----- There is no Prompt here, and all that is visible is the above
> instruction...and I can type stuff.
>                 However, by pressing <Ctrl+a q> I am immediately returned to
> my host prompt, like so...
>
> root at server:/#
> root at server:/# lxc-info -n vm101
> state:   RUNNING
> pid:      7103
> root at server:/#
>
> I tried nano /usr/bin/lxc-console hoping to be able to find the offending
> program line as I speculate it is near or at the echoed instruction, but
> opening the program I think I am seeing binary characters in the file.  I
> was wondering (wishful hoping) if there are any potential commands I might
> use to just break past the point that hangs after I give the lxc-console
> command and get a prompt that belongs to the container? Or some other route
> to obtaining squeeze...
>
> Thanks for your thoughts!
>
>
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