[Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

[John]

Serge,
Sorry for the confusion, both files have been created and are in fact 
empty.  This is after having removed any configuration constraint on 
processors in GE.conf.

On 2013-10-10 10:03, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting John (john at neutrondawn.com):
>> I am in fact able to write to the file.  its initial state is empty.
> 
> The initial state of which file is empty -
> /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/cpuset.cpus, or /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/GE/cpuset.cpus?
> If the former, then that's the problem.  That file should have been
> initialized earlier.  /x/y/z/ is not allowed to use cpus which are
> not authorized for use by /x/y.
> 
>> On 2013-10-10 09:24, Serge Hallyn wrote:
>> >Quoting John (john at neutrondawn.com):
>> >>Greetings LXC,
>> >>im having problems getting my container operational on centos.
>> >>cgconfig
>> >>and cgred are both running. the error is as follows during startup
>> >>attempts:
>> >>
>> >>  lxc-start 1381364626.764 DEBUG    lxc_cgroup -
>> >>cgroup_path_get: called
>> >>for subsys cpuset name lxc/GE
>> >>
>> >>       lxc-start 1381364626.764 DEBUG    lxc_cgroup - using cgroup
>> >>mounted at '/cgroup/cpuset'
>> >>       lxc-start 1381364626.764 DEBUG    lxc_cgroup - cgroup_path_get:
>> >>returning /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/GE for subsystem cpuset.cpus
>> >>       lxc-start 1381364626.764 ERROR    lxc_cgroup - Permission
>> >>denied -
>> >>write /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/GE/cpuset.cpus : Permission denied
>> >>       lxc-start 1381364626.764 ERROR    lxc_conf - Error setting
>> >>cpuset.cpus to 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 for lxc/GE
>> >
>> >Whatis in /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/cpuset.cpus?  Are you able to manually
>> >write to that file?