[Lxc-users] [systemd-devel] Unable to run systemd in an LXC / cgroup container.

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 20:30 -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> > On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 23:38 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > On Thu, 25.10.12 11:59, Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > > I've got some more problems relating to shutting down containers, some
> > > > of which may be related to mounting tmpfs on /run to which /var/run is
> > > > symlinked to.  We're doing halt / restart detection by monitoring utmp
> > > > in that directory but it looks like utmp isn't even in that directory
> > > > anymore and mounting tmpfs on it was always problematical.  We may have
> > > > to have a more generic method to detect when a container has shut down
> > > > or is restarting in that case.
> > 
> > > I can't parse this. The system call reboot() is virtualized for
> > > containers just fine and the container managaer (i.e. LXC) can check for
> > > that easily.
> > 
> > The problem we have had was with differentiating between reboot and halt
> > to either shut the container down cold or restarted it.  You say
> > "easily" and yet we never came up with an "easy" solution and monitored
> > utmp instead for the next runlevel change.  What is your "easy" solution
> > for that problem?

> I think you're on older kernels, where we had to resort to that.  Pretty
> recently Daniel Lezcano's patch was finally accepted upstream, which lets
> a container call reboot() and lets the parent of init tell whether it
> called reboot or shutdown by looking at wTERMSIG(status).

Now THAT is wonderful news!  I hadn't realized that had been accepted.
So we no longer need to rely on the old utmp kludge?

> -serge

Regards,
Mike
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