[Lxc-users] lxc-console on Debian Squeeze - buggy?

[Whit Blauvelt]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:32:57PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 01/06/2012 02:40 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> > For other people, is lxc-console working on Debian 0.7.5?
> 
> lxc 0.7.2 works for me with linux 2.6.32 on squeeze, and 0.7.5 backport 
> works for me with 3.1 backports on squeeze (or, 0.7.5 on wheezy/sid).

Thanks for the report.

> i'm not sure running 0.7.5 on top of 2.6.32 works; if that should not be 
> the issue, i'd make sure to rule out that you don't have a mixed system, 
> where you have some parts of lxc 0.7.2 and 0.7.5 were installed.

Well, I have them both installed, but to different locations, with the path
perferring the 0.7.5 locations.

If 0.7.5. doesn't fully work on 2.6.32, and if backports are available, it's
too bad neither is mentioned at http://wiki.debian.org/LXC, which is where
http://lxc.sourceforge.net/ links for Debian-specific info.

> (or in other words: don't install software from source if its not needed 
> since there are proper backports available).

If they're available, they're obscure. Neither Google nor Duckduckgo is any
help in finding them. Where are they? Debian doesn't have them:

  http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze-backports&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=lxc

  You have searched for packages that names contain lxc in suite(s)
  squeeze-backports, all sections, and all architectures.

  Sorry, your search gave no results

On the other hand if there's someplace that concisely describes LXC's kernel
dependencies (particularly what it would like to see that the 2.6.32 kernel
doesn't provide), I'd be perfectly happy to build a 3.2 kernel to make the
system happier with LXC.

Best,
Whit