[lxc-users] Fedory 20 LXC fails to start on Ubuntu 14.04 host?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 14:18 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Timotheus Pokorra
> <timotheus at pokorra.de> wrote:
>         Hello Federico,
>         that is strange.
>         I tried now on my old Laptop which runs Ubuntu 14.04, and got
>         the same error:
>         <30>systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named
>         Pipe.
>         <30>systemd[1]: Starting Root Slice.
>         <27>systemd[1]: Caught <SEGV>, dumped core as pid 11.
>         <30>systemd[1]: Freezing execution.
>         
>         
>         my kernel is:
>         uname -a
>         Linux timotheusp-LIFEBOOK-S7110 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu
>         SMP Fri
>         May 2 23:31:42 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
>         
>         I am also using the packages 1.0.3-0ubuntu3 of lxc.
>         
>         What might be the difference, so that it works for you and
>         does not work for me?
>         
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Try https://www.mail-archive.com/lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org/msg00993.html


> Look for "unconfined".
> 

Oh!  The AppArmour profile thing.  Palm / forehead / slap.  Yeah.
 

> 
>         >>>> The LXC host (Ubuntu) is a virtual machine running in a
>         XEN environment.
>         >>>> I would understand if that is not possible, but it is
>         possible since
>         >>>> Debian 7 and CentOS 6 containers run fine on this host.
>         >>>
>         >>> XEN???
>         >>>
>         >>> Oh crap...  It's information like this that is critical to
>         understand
>         >>> what's going on.
>         >>>
>         >>> You're in an environment with a Fedora 20 container
>         running on an Ubuntu
>         >>> virtualized host in a Xen guest running under a Xen
>         paravirtualization
>         >>> hypervisor.  Without knowing this, it would be impossible
>         to even guess
>         >>> where the problem may lay (even with this information, it
>         may be
>         >>> impossible).  I haven't even begun to attempt to reproduce
>         it but the
>         >>> number of independent variables just shot through the
>         roof.
>         >>>
>         >>> First order of troubleshooting.  Eliminate independent
>         variables...
>         
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Try running fedora under lxc under xen under vmware :P
> 
> 
> FWIW though, when using standard configurations (e.g. distro-bundled
> kernel, or vanilla upstream kernel with distro-provided config), xen
> usually behaves similar-enough to bare-metal for most cases. It's only
> when someone uses their own stripped-down custom-config-and-build
> kernel that results might vary wildly.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Fajar
> 


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