[lxc-users] properly shutdown jessie container on wheezy host

[Alex Mestiashvili]

Depending on the version of lxc, lxc-stop behaves differently.

In the version I use, lxc-stop kills all the processes inside the
container which can lead to problems if you run a database server for
example.
That's why there is a separate tool - lxc-shutdown which stops a
container and waits for the processes to exit gracefully.
In newer versions of lxc with lxc-stop one can reboot, cleanly shut
down, or kill a container....

Regards,
Alex

On 11/13/2015 04:30 PM, Saint Michael wrote:
> Good question. I always use lxc-stop
> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Alex Mestiashvili <
> alex at biotec.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is there a way to properly shutdown Jessie container on a Wheezy host ?
>> lxc version is 0.8.0~rc1-8+deb7u2
>>
>>  lxc-shutdown -n $host  which is basically
>>
>>  chroot /var/lib/lxc/${_CONTAINER}/rootfs telinit 0
>>
>> ends up in:
>>
>> "telinit: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl"
>>
>> with no change to the host.
>>
>> Of course I can ssh/console to the container, run shutdown and then use
>> lxc-stop to kill it, but may be there is a workaround for a direct
>> shutdown ?
>>
>> Thank you!
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