[lxc-users] Error installing lxcfs > rc8

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Antonio Tovar (antovar at gmail.com):
> Hello,
> 
> I have problems upgrading from lxcfs RC8 to RC9 or v2.
> 
> When upgrading, the installer shows the message:
> 
> Setting up lxcfs (...~ppa1) ...
> 
> and then every filesystem is mounted and the installer freezes.
> 
> I have three fs's which usually are not mounted, so three Thunar windows
> appear suddenly.
> 
> Last time, I had an usb memory plugged and it was mounted too.
> 
> In syslog I see lines about mounting all the fs's, but there are also these
> lines:

Can you please show precisely which package version you are
installing (and form which ppa), and show the contents of
/var/log/apt/term.log ?

> Apr  1 15:18:55 pc1 systemd-udevd[371]: seq 3564
> '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata5/host4/target4:0:0/4
> :0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc1' is taking a long time
> Apr  1 15:18:55 pc1 systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Got notification
> message from PID 371, but reception
>  only permitted for main PID 5447
> Apr  1 15:20:15 pc1 systemd[1]: message repeated 2 times: [
> systemd-udevd.service: Got notification message
>  from PID 371, but reception only permitted for main PID 5447]
> Apr  1 15:20:54 pc1 systemd-udevd[5447]: seq 3564
> '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata5/host4/target4:0:0/
> 4:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc1' killed
> 
> The problem is that /dev/sdc1 is the boot/root partition. It is an LVM
> volume from which linux booted, so it is already mounted but It's like if
> the installer can't see it mounted.
> 
> Then, If I execute "sudo lvs" the command does not return, it freezes. So
> the installer is somehow blocking the partition.
> 
> I have a snapshot of the root filesystem too, I don't know if that is a
> problem, because grub also get confused and try to insert an option to boot
> from that snapshot.
> 
> Of course, I always restore the snapshot after every failed upgrade.
> 
> The system es Xubuntu 15.10
> 
> At work I have the same system and lxcfs was upgraded without problems, but
> the boot/root partition is ext4.
> 
> Any help or idea?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Antonio

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