[Lxc-users] [lxc-devel] [GIT] lxc branch, master, updated. 7f99e339363d9f005c9386f60a1d8c0953c85053

Thu Nov 1 23:17:54 UTC 2012

On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 23:28 +0100, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> > On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 22:44 +0100, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > > Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> > > > On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 21:20 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > > > > On 11/01/2012 09:08 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > > > > > I know, I KNOW this is an 11th hour request.  Can we please get Serge's
> > > > > > autodev stuff into this release?  Please?
> > > > 
> > > > > release early, release often?
> > > > 
> > > > > just release current git as 0.8.0 now, and the one with the autofoo as 
> > > > > 0.8.1 soon after that?
> > > > 
> > > > That would be ideal but we've been sitting at 0.8.0rc2 for something
> > > > like 3-1/2 months now.  I know Daniel (the other Daniel, the Daniel) has
> > > > been incredibly busy.  I have no objection to getting this out the door
> > > > as 0.8.0 with a fast bump to 0.8.1 for the systemd stuff, but another
> > > > several months is not good.  Can we get this fast bump?  We'll be
> > > > staring Fedora 18 in the face by then.  The working versions of Fedora
> > > > are no longer in support and we've got more distros adopting systemd.
> > 
> > > I think this will end up slated for 0.9.0 (which we're hoping will be
> > > soon), but in any case I went ahead and created a branch at
> > > git://github.com/hallyn/lxc called upstream.nov1.2012.autodev, with
> > > an autodev patch on top of Daniel's latest push.
> > 
> > > I quickly tried my hand at fixing the error you had with /dev/ttyN.  I
> > > haven't tested that bit.  I will not be able to be online at all from
> > > now until weekend or monday, so if it needs more tweaks please feel
> > > free to 'just fix it'.
> > 
> > Problem.  Works for the systemd containers but not for my older
> > containers.  I get this...
> > 
> > [root at forest Plover]# cat 2012-10-30-18:17:46.log
> >       lxc-start 1351635466.998 ERROR    lxc_conf - Operation not permitted - error 1 creating /usr/lib64/lxc/rootfs/dev/tty6
> > 
> >       lxc-start 1351635466.999 ERROR    lxc_conf - failed to setup the ttys for 'Plover'
> >       lxc-start 1351635466.999 ERROR    lxc_start - failed to setup the container
> >       lxc-start 1351635466.999 ERROR    lxc_sync - invalid sequence number 1. expected 2
> >       lxc-start 1351635466.999 ERROR    lxc_start - failed to spawn 'Plover'
> > 
> > Alcove (the systemd container) was the first one started so it may be an
> > ordinal thing or it may be a systemd thing.  But it's a problem.
> \
> Hm, perhaps the container doesn't have mknod?

They all should have, but I will investigate.  Those devices would have
existed in the static file system with /dev.  Could it be a problem with
the device already existing in the /dev directory?

> I've updated the git tree to not fail when mknod is denied.  It should
> just spit out an error, and presumably another one when it next tries
> to bind mount the pty onto it, but that's ok.

> Does git://github.com/hallyn/lxc#upstream.nov1.2012.autodev work better
> now?  (I'm logging off now, so if not I probably won't know for some time)

Working now.  All containers are up.

When you get back to it, dude!  Many thanks!

> -serge

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Regards,
Mike
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