[Lxc-users] LXC Debian Wheezy Template

[Danijel Vargek, Continum]

Hi everybody,
is there a way to use Debian-Wheezy containers in a clean,
working way on lxc?

My current setup involves a Debian-Wheezy Host with several Wheezy containers.
As stated on the Debian wiki (wiki.debian.org/LXC), the original template ships
with several problems (mainly missing ttys for console login and other stuff).

We set up our containers with the template recommended on this mailinglist. 
Installation worked pretty fine, but there are some problems according to the
init scripts:

1. Stopping/Restarting containers via /etc/init.d/lxc fails with a timeout:
####
[....] Stopping Linux Containers: test.xxx.com
telinit: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
####

2. Shutdown/Reboot inside a container stops all processes except of init, so the
container finally does not shutdown or reboot.
We can see the still active init process for the container via lxc-ps
####
CONTAINER    PID TTY          TIME CMD
test.xxx.com  4352 ?        00:00:05 init
####
The only way to finally stop a container is via lxc-stop

Did anyone experience a similiar problem, or is there an existing workaround for 
this?

Regards,
Danijel

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