[Lxc-users] Debian Containers hangs when starting.

[Glenn Daneels]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Glenn Daneels <glenndaneels at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working on constructing a Debian template in a linux container.
> >
> > As I normally do not work on a Debian system, I'm working on a Virtualbox
> > with Debian Wheezy (testing) and lxc 0.8.0~rc1-4 installed.
> > I used a preseed configuration file (http://pastebin.com/SR5YXBqE).
> (Notice
> > the puppet package, what would be needed to automatically configure OMF
> on
> > the template, see [1]). The preseed is shown here
> > http://pastebin.com/yqwbG5UV.
> >
> > When first starting up the linux container, I was told to set the network
> > bridge (http://pastebin.com/TWchXrCR) and I mounted the cgroup by adding
> > in/etc/fstab, see http://pastebin.com/tSS0KdY1
> >
> > After this, the lxc-start seemed to fire up the container, but the debian
> > seems to "hang" at a certain point: http://pastebin.com/YFxsV9W6
> > And after a while additional output is printed:
> http://pastebin.com/4N87RR9i
> > (that additional output repeats every 5 minutes.)
> > (Also the startpar: service(s) returned failure: hostname.sh ... failed!
> > failure keeps me worried...).
> >
> > Does anyone know what is going on or what I'm doing wrong?
>
> IIRC there was a similar thread earlier (search the archives), and the
> conclusion was whatever method you used to create the guest is flawed,
> in that in doesn't create the necessary tty nodes and modify
> /etc/inittab accordingly. It's consistent with your log "INIT: Id "6"
> respawning too fast" and friends, which should be the line that starts
> tty.
>
> I'd suggest you try using "lxc-create -t debian", or at least see what
> modification is present there (/usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-debian) and
> apply it manually to your setup.
>

I already use lxc-create -t debian to fire up the linux container.
I don't know where to find that /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-debian file, it
seems not to exist on my system... (Did I forget to install something?)


>
> --
> Fajar
>
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