[lxc-users] Cannot delete container

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Wed Jul 29 14:53:33 UTC 2015


Depending on the size, you can just email it to me privately if
you like, or upload to paste.ubuntu.com.

Quoting Valerio Mariani (valerio.mariani at gmx.de):
> 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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