[lxc-users] Live migration mkdtemp failure

[McDonagh, Ed]

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 09:30:19AM -0700, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tycho Andersen <
> > tycho.andersen at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 08:47:24PM -0700, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> >>  > I've looked at ct migration between 2 ubuntu 16.04 hosts today, and had
> > > > some interesting problems;  I find that migration of stopped containers
> > > > works fairly reliably; but live migration, well, it transfers a lot of
> > > > data, then exits with a failure message. I can then move the same
> > > > container, stopped, with no problem.
> > > >
> > > > The error is the same every time, a failure of "mkdtemp" -
> > >
> > > It looks like your host /tmp isn't writable by the uid map that the
> > > container is being restored as?
> > >
> >
> > Which is odd, since /tmp has 1777 perms on both hosts, so I don't see how
> > it could be a permissions problem. Surely the default apparmor profile is
> > not the cause? You did give me a new idea though, and I'll set up a test
> > with privileged containers for comparison. Is there a switch to enable
> > verbose logging?
>
> It already is enabled, you can find the full logs in
> /var/log/lxd/$container/migration_*
>
> Perhaps the pwd of the CRIU task is what's broken instead, since CRIU
> isn't supplying a full mkdtemp template. I'll have a deeper look in a
> bit.
>
> Tycho
>
> > 
> > > >
> > > > root at ronnie:~# lxc move third lxd:
> > > > error: Error transferring container data: restore failed:
> > > > (00.033172)      1: Error (cr-restore.c:1489): mkdtemp failed
> > > > crtools-proc.x9p5OH: Permission denied
> > > > (00.060072) Error (cr-restore.c:1352): 9188 killed by signal 9
> > > > (00.117126) Error (cr-restore.c:2182): Restoring FAILED.

I've been getting the same error - was the issue ever resolved for non-privileged containers?

Kind regards
Ed
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