[Lxc-users] error starting lxc containers

[Ramez Hanna]

I am reporting that staging works on fedora for debian containers at least
haven't yet tested fedora containers


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ramez Hanna <rhanna at informatiq.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 23:33 +0200, Ramez Hanna wrote:
>> > host: fedora 17
>> > kernel: 3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64
>> > lxc: 0.9 alpha2
>> > systemd: systemd-44-23.fc17.x86_64
>> > selinux is disabled
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>> I have a Fedora 17 host (and several other hosts as well as Fedora 18
>> for testing)...  The latest update to systemd broke lxc due to the
>> pivot_root problem with their use of the MS_SHARED mount attribute that
>> has been under active discussion for the last couple of weeks.  No, it
>> is not functional under 0.9.0 alpha2.  It is, more or less, fixed under
>> current staging (fixed with a lot of uglyness that we're trying to
>> address).
>>
>> Your errors reported below don't seem to exactly correspond to the
>> errors I would expect but, I would expect that, if you had recently
>> upgraded that Fedora 17 host to the latest systemd, you are going to
>> fail, period.  Most likely, I would expect you to fail with a
>> "pivot_root" failure but anything is possible.  It's broken and we know
>> it.
>>
>> > lxc-start -n build02
>> > build02 is a wheezy container built with the debina template was working
>> > fine both kernel and systemd were upgraded (can't tell which one broke
>> it)
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>> Most likely, it's the systemd upgrade that caused the failure.  Fedora
>> 17 with the latest systemd from fedora-upgrades has broken lxc and even
>> 0.9.0 alpha2 does not fix it.  You have to use staging from git and
>> build your own.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>> > error is
>> >
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.324 INFO     lxc_conf - cgroup has been setup
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.324 INFO     lxc_conf - console has been
>> setup
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.325 ERROR    lxc_conf - Operation not
>> permitted
>> > - error creating /usr/lib64/lxc/rootfs/dev/tty1
>> >
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.329 ERROR    lxc_conf - Operation not
>> permitted
>> > - error creating /usr/lib64/lxc/rootfs/dev/tty2
>> >
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.330 ERROR    lxc_conf - Operation not
>> permitted
>> > - error creating /usr/lib64/lxc/rootfs/dev/tty3
>> >
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.332 ERROR    lxc_conf - Operation not
>> permitted
>> > - error creating /usr/lib64/lxc/rootfs/dev/tty4
>> >
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.334 INFO     lxc_conf - 4 tty(s) has been
>> setup
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.334 DEBUG    lxc_conf - mountpoint for old
>> > rootfs is '/usr/lib64/lxc/rootfs/lxc_putold'
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.334 ERROR    lxc_conf - Invalid argument -
>> > pivot_root syscall failed
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.336 ERROR    lxc_conf - failed to setup pivot
>> > root
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.337 ERROR    lxc_conf - failed to set rootfs
>> for
>> > 'f17'
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.338 ERROR    lxc_start - failed to setup the
>> > container
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.339 ERROR    lxc_sync - invalid sequence
>> number
>> > 1. expected 2
>> >       lxc-start 1358593239.340 ERROR    lxc_start - failed to spawn
>> 'f17'
>> >
>> > any pointers to where this comes from?
>> >
>> > --
>> > BR
>> > RH
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> ouch that stings.
> I'll be testing staging then
>
> --
> BR
> RH
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>



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BR
RH
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