[Lxc-users] Lingering LXC veth interfaces

[Ken Caruso]

On 10/19/12, Ken Caruso <ken at ipl31.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using system LXCs on Ubuntu 11.10 (switching to 12.04 soon). I am
> managing the LXCs with some home grown scripts(not via libvirtd).
>
> If I lxc-stop a container sometimes the veth interfaces created on the
> host do not go away immediately, I believe it is the same thing
> described in this thread:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00165.html
>
> Is there an easy way to clean these sockets up manually to force the
> deletion of the veth devices?

FWIW, I discovered that "ip link delete $veth_int" seems to fix remove
the lingering interface regardless of open sockets that were
associated with the now stopped LXC.

-Ken