[Lxc-users] arkose appears broken in Ubuntu 13.04

[brian mullan]

Stephane thanks for the message.   that patch didn't work for me so I guess
I'll wait until
your updated arkose is available and in the mean time keep searching for
 some alternative I can use in the meantime

brian



On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On 04/26/2013 01:53 PM, brian mullan wrote:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arkose/+bug/1134972
> >
> > Other than Arkose.. what alternatives are there to run an application
> > container
> > the starts will a web browser.
> >
> > thanks
> > brian
>
> Ah right, I remember debugging this and tracking it down to a regression
> in "su" but never bothered to fix it in 13.04 as another kernel bug was
> leading to loop devices leakage.
>
> My plan is to essentially rewrite Arkose to use the LXC API and extend
> the API to cover all the cases I care about.
>
> However for 13.04, you're a bit stuck. You can try to directly patch
> /usr/bin/arkose, changing the "su %s -c \"command\"" call by something
> like "sudo -u %s \"command\"" which workaround that su behaviour change
> but if you hit the same bug I did, you'll be limited to 7 run of arkose
> per boot of your machine due to that weird loop device kernel bug.
>
>
> --
> Stéphane Graber
> Ubuntu developer
> http://www.ubuntu.com
>
>
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