[lxc-users] trying to create/install mate-desktop into unprivileged LXC container fails

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting brian mullan (bmullan.mail at gmail.com):
> My host is Ubuntu 15.10 with LXD/LXC installed.   LXC is v 0.27
> 
> I have a script that creates a Privileged LXC container and attempts to
> create/install mate-desktop into *Privileged* LXC container...  this all
> works fine!
> 
> If I modify the line in the script to create an Unprivileged LXC container
> then run the script to
> create/install mate-desktop into *Unprivileged* LXC container it fails!
> 
> I'm fine with just using Privileged containers for this!
> 
> But should it be expected that installing a complete Desktop (ubuntu-mate,
> xubuntu-desktop) etc into an Unprivileged container is not allowed?
> 
> Or is installing a normal Desktop Environment into  Unprivileged container
> not allowed?
> 
> one of a couple errors that occurs during installation is:
> 
> *Setting up fuse (2.9.4-1ubuntu1) ...*
> *Creating fuse device...*
> *mknod: ‘fuse-’: Operation not permitted*
> *makedev fuse c 10 229 root root 0660: failed*

Yeah you'll want to ask lxd to create it for you:

lxc config device add lxcfs fuse unix-char major=10 minor=229 path=/dev/fuse

> *chmod: cannot access ‘/dev/fuse’: No such file or directory*
> *dpkg: error processing package fuse (--configure):*
> * subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status
> 1*
> *Setting up avahi-utils (0.6.31-4ubuntu4) ...*
> *Errors were encountered while processing:*
> * fuse*
> *E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)*
> 
> As I mentioned there is no problem with a Privileged container just the
> Unprivileged.
> 
> Both host & container are Ubuntu 15.10.
> 
> thanks for any insight.
> 
> Brian

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