[Lxc-users] debian and cgroup behaviour

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Andreas Laut (andreas.laut at spark5.de):
> Dear list.
> 
> I've got the following error message with Debian squeeze (Kernel
> 2.6.32.5) and lxc 0.8:
> 
> "lxc-start: No such file or directory - failed to rename cgroup
> /sys/fs/cgroup//lxc/18381->/sys/fs/cgroup//lxc/vs-db"
> 
> lxc 0.7xx creates a folder under /sys/fs/cgroup/[init-process-id]
> and renames this folder to /sys/fs/cgroup/[container-name]
> lxc 0.8xx creates the same folder under
> /sys/fs/cgroup/*lxc/*[init-process-id] and renames it to
> /sys/fs/cgroup/*lxc*/[container-name]
> 
> 
> This result in lxc 0.8 won't start containers in squeeze and throw
> the rename error.
> lxc 0.7 can start the containers.
> 
> And I don't know why. Anyone?

For some time (between march and last week) the ns cgroup
support was removed.  It's back now, so maybe 1.0-alpha
would work for you.

-serge