[lxc-users] The dark side of LXC

[Stéphane Graber]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:35:06AM -0400, CDR wrote:
> There is an unresolved issue that really goes to the core of the
> container model.
> Yesterday I installed Mysql latest on the host, and had to remove it
> one hour later. It turns out that since I have 20 containers each with
> a running version if mysql, the instance running on the host kills the
> other instances when you try to stop mysql, an similarly, the host
> version never starts because it thinks, wrongly, that it is already
> running.
> 
> We need to make the host ignore the processes running on the
> containers, much like a real virtual machine, or else the host cannot
> really run any application whatsoever.

That's the sign of a broken init script, init scripts should be tracking
the pid of the spawned process and only kill that. Please file a bug
against your distro, that's nothing to do with LXC.

> 
> 
> Philip Orleans
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-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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