[Lxc-users] Remedy for centos base installation failing operations on /sys?

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Johannes Graumann
> <johannes_graumann at web.de> wrote:
>> On the container "/var/lib/rpm is now empty
>
> That is not right. It might be the source of your problem. Try
>
> yum --installroot=/some/path/of/your/choice groupinstall base
>
> ... and verify whether /var/lib/rpm under that path has some files (it
> should). Just to check whether the problem is in your template, or in
> your version of yum.

I think I know what happens.

Debian/Ubuntu's version of yum stores rpm database in /root/.rpm (when
run as root). RHEL/Centos expects the db to be on /var/lib/rpm. Thus
the problem.

You can simply (in chroot or container) move all content in /root/.rpm
to /var/lib/rpm, and the run "rpm --rebuilddb" .

Strangely enough, eventhough your install process installs
"filesystem" as a dependency, yum won't complain much if you can run
"yum erase filesystem" inside the chroot environment :P. Not
recommended though.

-- 
Fajar