[lxc-users] Trying out migration, getting "error: checkpoint failed"

Tycho Andersen tycho.andersen at canonical.com
Tue May 5 13:43:05 UTC 2015


On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:18:23PM +0100, Giles Thomas wrote:
> Hi Tycho,
> 
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> On 04/05/15 14:15, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> >What versions of criu and liblxc do you have installed? Can you look in
> >/var/lib/lxd/lxc/<container>/lxc.log (or /var/log/lxd/<container>/lxc.log;
> >there was a bug fixed recently that moved it to the latter location).
> 
> Heh, I hadn't realised that criu wasn't automatically installed as a
> dependency for lxd (might be worth adding to the blog post?), so I didn't
> have it installed at all.

Ah yeah. It seems I forgot to mention anything about criu at all :)

> However, installing it doesn't fix the problem.  I currently have criu
> 1.4-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1 and liblxc1
> 1.1.2+master~20150428-0938-0ubuntu1~trusty.   The former was installed just
> with an apt-get install criu, and the latter via following your blog post
> pretty much robotically...
> 
> /var/log/lxd/migratee/lxc.log is present, but empty.

Does /var/lib/lxd/lxc/migratee/lxc.log exist?

You might try building criu from their git, I'm not sure the version
in our PPA is new enough to actually work with liblxc 1.1.2.

Tycho

> 
> All the best,
> 
> Giles
> 
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