[lxc-users] LTS 14.04 lxc-start fails with unprivileged container

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Heinz (garnixmail at aol.de):
> Hi,
> 
> 
> on my little home server (Ubuntu LTS 14.04) I try to setup an unprivileged lxc container.
> The creation of lxc containers is ok, but the start fails.
> Opened an issue on github, got no reply so far so I try this list.
> https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/339
> 
> 
> According to the trace file (test6.log)  the cause seems to be this line:
> 
>  lxc-start 1412576991.028 ERROR lxc_start - Permission denied - failed to exec /sbin/init

What does 'file .local/share/lxc/test6/rootfs/sbin/init'

show?  Is it a valid executable for your architecture?

To avoid the cgmanager_remove_sync failures, add

lxc.mount.auto = cgroup:mixed

to your container config.  But that won't affect the ability to
exec init.

-serge