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

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 08:24 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> You should probably file it under debootstrap instead of lxc.

Concur.  This is a debootstrap bug, not LXC.

Regards,
Mike
> 
> 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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