[lxc-users] Fedora 20 template on LVM not working

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Thu May 15 17:22:58 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 13:02 -0400, CDR wrote:
> The template worked fine for me, but there is a material difference, I
> use a simple directory, where you are using a different approach to
> storage.

Oh, you're referring back to the original poster, not my post.  Yeah,
we're trying to deal with his problem using an LVM backing store.  Serge
and I are puzzled and he had asked him to patch the template so we could
see what's going haywire.  Check the whole thread.

> Philip

Regards,
Mike

> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 08:54 +0200, Flo wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> is the Fedora template currently broken? I tried to create a LVM based
> >> Fedora 20 container but it looks like the template gets confused with
> >> lvm...
> >>
> >>
> >> lxc-create -n ipa01-test -B lvm --vgname=lxc1 --fssize=30G --thinpool
> >> thin_pool -t fedora -- --release 20
> >
> > Have you had a chance to try Serge's suggested patch to instrument the
> > template and tell us what it's doing?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> Complete!
> >> Fixing up rpm databases
> >> Download complete.
> >> Copy /var/cache/lxc/fedora/x86_64/20/rootfs
> >> to /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test ...
> >> Copying rootfs to /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test ...mkdir: cannot create
> >> directory ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test’: File exists
> >> rsync: ERROR: cannot stat destination "/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/": Not a
> >> directory (20)
> >> rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at
> >> main.c(652) [Receiver=3.1.0]
> >>
> >>
> >> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test’: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 132: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/selinux/enforce: Not a directory
> >> sed: can't read /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/pam.d/login: Not a directory
> >> sed: can't read /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/pam.d/sshd: Not a directory
> >> cp: failed to access ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/localtime’: Not a
> >> directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 218: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> >> Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 229: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/sysconfig/network: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 236: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/hostname: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 240: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/hosts: Not a directory
> >> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-jobs2-prodm/dev/null’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-jobs2-prodm/dev/zero’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-jobs2-prodm/dev/random’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-jobs2-prodm/dev/urandom’: Not a directory
> >> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/pts’: Not a
> >> directory
> >> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/shm’: Not a
> >> directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/tty’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/tty0’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/tty1’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/tty2’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/tty3’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/tty4’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/console’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/full’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/initctl’: Not a directory
> >> mknod: ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev/ptmx’: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 275: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/securetty: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 276: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/securetty: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 277: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/securetty: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 278: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/securetty: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 279: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/securetty: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 280: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/securetty: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 281: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/securetty: Not a directory
> >> /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line
> >> 282: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/securetty: Not a directory
> >> Storing root password in '/var/lib/lxc/ipa01-test/tmp_root_pass'
> >> chroot: cannot change root directory to /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test: Not a
> >> directory
> >> chroot: cannot change root directory to /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test: Not a
> >> directory
> >> installing fedora-release package
> >> mount: mount point /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev is not a directory
> >> mount: mount point /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/proc is not a directory
> >> cp: failed to access ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/’: Not a directory
> >> chroot: cannot change root directory to /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test: Not a
> >> directory
> >> chroot: cannot change root directory to /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test: Not a
> >> directory
> >> chroot: cannot change root directory to /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test: Not a
> >> directory
> >> umount: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/proc: Not a directory
> >> umount: /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/dev: Not a directory
> >> touch: cannot touch ‘/dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/fstab’: Not a directory
> >> sed: can't read /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test/etc/sysconfig/init: Not a
> >> directory
> >>
> >>
> >> Container rootfs and config have been created.
> >> Edit the config file to check/enable networking setup.
> >>
> >>
> >> You have successfully built a Fedora container and cache.  This cache
> >> may
> >> be used to create future containers of various revisions.  The
> >> directory
> >> /var/cache/lxc/fedora/x86_64/bootstrap contains a bootstrap
> >> which may no longer needed and can be removed.
> >>
> >>
> >> A LiveOS directory exists at /var/cache/lxc/fedora/x86_64/LiveOS.
> >> This is only used in the creation of the bootstrap
> >> run-time-environment
> >> and may be removed.
> >>
> >>
> >> The temporary root password is stored in:
> >>
> >>
> >>         '/var/lib/lxc/ipa01-test/tmp_root_pass'
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The root password is set up as expired and will require it to be
> >> changed
> >> at first login, which you should do as soon as possible.  If you lose
> >> the
> >> root password or wish to change it without starting the container, you
> >> can change it from the host by running the following command (which
> >> will
> >> also reset the expired flag):
> >>
> >>
> >>         chroot /dev/lxc1/ipa01-test passwd
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 978-7061 |  mhw at WittsEnd.com
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Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 978-7061 |  mhw at WittsEnd.com
   /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/          | (678) 463-0932 |  http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
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