[Lxc-users] lxc headeache on debian wheezy

[Daniel Baumann]

On 07/29/2012 09:33 PM, Loïc wrote:
> Damn, that's really not that polished:

we don't use the lxc-debian template in debian as lxc-debian, but
lxc-debconf, which is different, you might want to report such issues to
debian, not lxc upstream.

> 1/ "you must be root to change the hostname" message.

cosmetical, we drop some capabilities.

> 2/ mount reports a lot of permission denied.

cosmetical, we drop some capabilities.

> 3/ hwclock is unable to set the system clock

cosmetical, we drop some capabilities.

> 4/ the sshd service which seems to have been installed from the template is unable to load its keys.

see the bug about missing preseeding in the debian bts.

> All of which I am ready to deal with later, but the most important one for me is the messages I got after the boot process:

see the bug about missing preseeding in the debian bts.

> Which means that I'm stuck in the container console without a shell :(

see the bug about missing preseeding in the debian bts.

> Following the advises here, I kindly installed the linux-container package, and installed the resulting .deb package from /var/cache/apt/archives into /usr/share/lxc.
> That seems to make no difference when I destroy and recreate my container.

because you need live-debconfig, not linux-container.

> I cannot believe that lxc is that immature. I may surely be missing a lot of things, or is the Debian packaging of lxc such a pity?

you are using debian testing, it's not called testing without purpose.
if you're not prepared to deal with temporary glitches, use debian stable.

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