[lxc-users] lxc-create for ubuntu container fails in Fedora 20

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

You should probably file it under debootstrap instead of lxc.

On ubuntu 14.04 (debootstrap 1.0.59ubuntu0.1), all ubuntu releases (e.g.
"precise") script under /usr/share/debootsrap is a symlink to "gutsy",
which has this

case $ARCH in
  amd64|i386)
        default_mirror http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
        ;;
  sparc)
        case $SUITE in
          gutsy)
        default_mirror http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
        ;;
          *)
        default_mirror http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports
        ;;
        esac
        ;;
  *)
        default_mirror http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports
        ;;
esac


My guess is under fedora the links somehow got broken (e.g. points to a
debian release, like "stable"), or something else changed that caused the
lines above got removed.

-- 
Fajar



On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Ajith Adapa <ajith.adapa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Filled a bug in Fedora Bugzilla @
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115728
>
> Regards,
> Ajith
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 10:07 +0530, Ajith Adapa wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >
> >> I am trying to create a ubuntu container in Fedora 20 host and it
> >> fails as shown below
> >
> >> # lxc-create -t ubuntu -n ubuntutest
> >> Checking cache download in /var/cache/lxc/precise/rootfs-amd64 ...
> >> Installing packages in template: ssh,vim,language-pack-en
> >> Downloading ubuntu precise minimal ...
> >> which: no qemu-debootstrap in
> >>
> (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin)
> >> I: Keyring file not available at
> >> /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https
> >> mirror https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian
> >> I: Retrieving Release
> >> E: Failed getting release file
> >> https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/precise/Release
> >> lxc_container: container creation template for ubuntutest failed
> >> lxc_container: Error creating container ubuntutest
> >
> > I saw that last time I tried to directly create an Ubuntu container on
> > Fedora 20 myself.
> >
> > The problem appears to be that debootstrap, on which the Ubuntu template
> > depends, seems to have recently (sometime in the last 3 months or so)
> > been broken on Fedora.  I looked at it several weeks ago and it's having
> > a problem pulling release information from mirrors.kernel.org even when
> > you specify releases that SHOULD work.  The debootstrap process is
> > driven by version dependent scripts in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts
> > and it's those scripts that are failing to retrieve their respective
> > release information and hurling chunks.
> >
> > I don't know if it's some reorganization up at mirrors.kernel.org or if
> > someone broke something in debootstrap but it's not a problem with the
> > Ubuntu template.
> >
> > I haven't tried it yet but I strongly suspect the Debian template will
> > be similarly broken.  Someone probably needs to open a bugzilla ticket
> > up at the Fedora Project bugzilla.
> >
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Ajith
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
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