[lxc-users] Cannot delete container

Valerio Mariani valerio.mariani at gmx.de
Wed Jul 29 14:45:51 UTC 2015


Yes, I have a log. Can I upload it somewhere?

For the cotnainer,  I will follow your advice and wipe lxd!

 Thanks!

   Valerio

On 29.07.2015 16:42, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> So assuming you don't have any containers yet which you want to keep
> around, the easiest thing might be to do
>
> sudo rm -rf /var/lib/lxd
>
> and start over.  
>
> Do you happen to have a log of the steps you had previously done with
> the container?  I can imagine what's happening, and I'm opening a new
> issue to try to make sure this doesn't ever happen, but an easy
> reproducer would help :)
>
> thanks,
> -serge
>
> Quoting Valerio Mariani (valerio.mariani at gmx.de):
>> Dear Serge,
>>
>>    I installed it using the stable lxd ppa, on ubuntu vivid 15.04
>>
>> Valerio
>>
>> On 29.07.2015 15:23, Serge Hallyn wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Valerio's using lxd, not straight lxc.
>>>
>>> Valerio,
>>>
>>> how did you install lxd?  (to help decide how to debug it)
>>>
>>> -serge
>>>
>>> Quoting Divya Vyas (edivya.vyas at gmail.com):
>>>> lxc-destroy should do that
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Valerio Mariani <valerio.mariani at gmx.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>
>>>>>    I am trying to delete all containers from my system. If I type lxc
>>>>> list, I see:
>>>>>
>>>>> vmariani at cfeld-valerio2:~/Downloads$ lxc list
>>>>> +----------+---------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
>>>>> |   NAME   |  STATE  | IPV4 | IPV6 | EPHEMERAL | SNAPSHOTS |
>>>>> +----------+---------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
>>>>> | centos/6 | STOPPED |      |      | NO        | 0         |
>>>>> +----------+---------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
>>>>>
>>>>> However, if I try to delete it with lxc delete centos/6, I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> error: not found
>>>>>
>>>>> This is lxc version 0.14
>>>>>
>>>>> I realize I can delete the container by deleting the rootfs, but I am
>>>>> afraid that will leave the config data in the database. Is there a way
>>>>> to delete this container?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your help
>>>>>
>>>>>    Valerio
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