[lxc-users] [ Fedora template ] Error while creating a new container
Martin Cigorraga
martincigorraga at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 18:15:52 UTC 2015
Hello Mike,
Awesome, thank you very much for the detailed explanation!
And no, I wasn't 'complaining' about anything -far from that indeed-,
I was just informing the blocker with which I stumbled.
Cheers,
-Martin
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> Couple of minor corrections and details...
>
> Where ever I referred to release 1.1.0, I meant 1.1.2 in several places
> below.
>
> Also... Rev 1.1.1 is currently in Fedora Rawhide but 1.0.7 is the
> latest in Fedora 21 updates.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 12:49 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 19:15 -0300, Martin Cigorraga wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>>
>> > Host OS: Fedora 21 up-to-date, kernel 3.19.3
>>
>> > Yesterday I tried to create a Fedora container but constantly had the
>> > following errors; while ultimately I could manage to end up with a
>> > working system after running an update once the container was created,
>> > I don't know how much crippled it ended being...
>>
>> > Please check the following errors:
>> > # lxc-create -n F21 -t fedora -B btrfs
>> > Host CPE ID from /etc/os-release: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21
>> > Checking cache download in /var/cache/lxc/fedora/x86_64/21/rootfs ...
>> > Downloading fedora minimal ...
>> > Fetching rpm name from
>> > http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/fedora/linux/releases/21/Everything/x86_64/os//Packages/f...
>> > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
>> > Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
>> > 100 413 100 413 0 0 440 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 440
>> > 100 837 100 837 0 0 749 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 749
>> > Failed to identify fedora release rpm.
>> > Fetching rpm name from
>> > http://fedora.c3sl.ufpr.br/linux/releases/21/Everything/x86_64/os//Packages/f...
>> > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
>> > Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
>> > 100 286 100 286 0 0 252 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 252
>> > 0 0 0 240k 0 0 87074 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 186k
>> > Fetching fedora release rpm from
>> > http://fedora.c3sl.ufpr.br/linux/releases/21/Everything/x86_64/os//Packages/f/fedora-release-21-2.noarch.rpm......
>> > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
>> > Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
>> > 100 21860 100 21860 0 0 15132 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 15138
>> > Bootstrap Environment testing...
>>
>> The "Failed to identify fedora release rpm above is normal, if that's
>> what you are complaining about. At least normal for the template when
>> it encounters a broken repository. I checked the www.las.ic.unicam.br
>> repository and their "Packages/f" directory is empty. That's why I
>> coded the logic in there to do a directory listing first and look for
>> the release file (which may have additional revisions). The template
>> could not identify a release file in there so it moved onto a different
>> repository where is was able to find the fedora-release rpm. It did
>> what it was suppose to do. I guess the failure message could be clearer
>> on that point.
>>
>> > OS fedora is whitelisted. Installation Bootstrap Environment not required.
>>
>> > warning: /var/cache/lxc/fedora/x86_64/21/partial/fedora-release-21-2.noarch.rpm:
>> > Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 95a43f54: NOKEY
>> > Preparing... ################################# [100%]
>> > Updating / installing...
>> > 1:fedora-release-21-2 ################################# [100%]
>> > sed: can't read
>> > //var/cache/lxc/fedora/x86_64/21/partial/etc/yum.repos.d/*: No such
>> > file or directory
>>
>> Ok... I didn't recognize the above error with sed but I found it. It's
>> attempting to adjust the basearch parameters in the yum repo files (used
>> primarily to adjust for an i386 container on an x86_64 host). That's
>> indicating that the repo files have not been downloaded for F21.
>>
>> This is in the most recent template (taken from 1.1.0):
>
>> --
>> # F21 and newer need fedora-repos in addition to fedora-release...
>> # Note that fedora-release and fedora-system have a mutual dependency.
>> # So installing the reops package after the release package we can
>> # spare one --nodeps.
>> if [ "$release" -ge "21" ]; then
>> ${BOOTSTRAP_CHROOT}rpm --root ${BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL_ROOT} -ivh ${BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL_ROOT}/${REPOS_RPM}
>> fi
>> --
>>
>> There is more in there for actually downloading that REPOS_RPM as well.
>>
>> What version of lxc are you running? I'm currently running 1.1.0 rpms
>> built from the releases on an F21 host without seeing any of these
>> errors. You also seem to be missing a couple of the "repo" downloads
>> that are present in the 1.1.0 template.
>>
>> Latest rev for lxc on stock F21 is 1.0.7. I just checked that template
>> and the above code is not present, which explains the sed error, since
>> the template files are not then present. F21 and above also have to
>> install the fedora-repos rpm. That's where your problem is. It looks
>> like 1.0.7 is the latest release in the 1.0.x line and needs the F21
>> repo fix applied to template in that branch. My recommendation would be
>> to upgrade to 1.1.0
>>
>> > Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror, keys, langpacks, list-data,
>> > priorities, ps, remove-with-leaves, rpm-warm-cache, show-leaves,
>> > tmprepo, upgrade-helper
>> > Determining fastest mirrors...
>>
>> > /
>>
>> > From the errors shown above, I want to add that the first time the
>> > container is created it *always* has exactly the same problems:
>> > 1. Problems with fedora-release;
>>
>> Which appears to be a problem with one of the F21 repositories. There
>> may be some additional problem in the retry logic for that broken repo
>> but I'm not seeing it. Seems to be working correctly, although you're
>> not getting the fedora-repos rpms.
>>
>> > 2. Mispell path:
>> > //var/cache/lxc/fedora/x86_64/21/partial/etc/yum.repos.d/* (though
>> > there's no typo in the template file itself).
>>
>> This appears to be related to the fedora-release / fedora-repos split in
>> F21 and is fixed in the 1.1.0 branch and master. Not at all sure what
>> you meant by "mispell path" but it's the correct path (just with a
>> superfluous duplicate leading '/').
>>
>> > Let me know if I can be of further assistance to help squash down these bugs.
>>
>> I don't know that there are any plans for a 1.0.8 release or how fast
>> that would be picked up by Fedora.
>>
>> You might want to file a bugzilla report with Fedora against Fedora 21.
>> I don't know that there are any plans for a 1.0.8 release or how fast
>> that would be picked up by Fedora. Might be easier to get them to pick
>> up the 1.1.0 release. I'll also ping the maintainer and see what he
>> wants to do.
>>
>> > -MartÃn
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>
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