[lxc-users] [Unable to start using lvm backend]

[Andrea Masi]

The problem seems related to unprivileged containers that seems cannot work
with -B lvm.
Must we assume that lvm backed store (and maybe others) actually cannot
work with unprivileged containers?


2015-01-23 17:02 GMT+01:00 Andrea Masi <eraclitux at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> I'm using lxc 1.0.6 on ubuntu 14.04.
> I've no problems creating/running on dir backing store but when I use lvm
> I cannot start containers getting these errors:
>
> lxc-start 1422026234.562 ERROR    bdev - failed to determine fs type for
> '/dev/lxc/lvm-cont'
> lxc-start 1422026234.563 ERROR    lxc_conf - failed to determine fs type
> for '/dev/dm-0'
> lxc-start 1422026234.564 ERROR    lxc_conf - failed to mount rootfs
> lxc-start 1422026234.564 ERROR    lxc_conf - failed to setup rootfs for
> 'lvm-cont'
> lxc-start 1422026234.565 ERROR    lxc_conf - Error setting up rootfs mount
> after spawn
> lxc-start 1422026234.565 ERROR    lxc_start - failed to setup the container
> lxc-start 1422026234.566 ERROR    lxc_sync - invalid sequence number 1.
> expected 2
> lxc-start 1422026234.566 ERROR    lxc_start - failed to spawn 'lvm-cont'
> lxc-start 1422026234.574 ERROR    lxc_start_ui - The container failed to
> start.
> lxc-start 1422026234.575 ERROR    lxc_start_ui - Additional information
> can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
>
> I've tried different template createds with -t download for example:
> lxc-create -t download -n lvm-cont -B lvm -- -d ubuntu -r utopic -a amd64
>
> I can manually mount with no problem /dev/lxc/lvm-cont
>
> Any idea on what can it be wrong?
>
> Thanks.
>
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