[lxc-users] lxc 2.0.6 breaks lxc-start

[Detlef Vollmann]

Hi Christian,

thank you for replying!

On 01/09/17 17:35, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I'm a little confused.
Sorry about that.  But maybe it's because we talk about
different things.

> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 01:31:28PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
>> On 01/01/17 14:14, Christian Brauner wrote:
>>> Hm, works for me. I can just start containers fine where the
>>> configuration file is located somewhere else. Can you please
>>> append/copy the containers configuration file here and note any
>>> special tweaks to your setup as well?
>> Here's my test case:
>> $ sudo lxc-ls
>> rlx3-test1 trusty-dev
>> # note: no 'test' here
> 
> Yes, because the default lxc path should be "/var/lib/lxc" and according to the
> config file that you attached the container "test" exists on a different path
> "/images/lxc". So this is expected. If you'd pass:
> 
> sudo lxc-ls -P /images/lxc
> 
> the container "test" should show up.
No, it doesn't.
lxc-ls only shows containers that are either active, frozen or created.
"test" never was created, so it still doesn't show up.

>> $ sudo lxc-start -F -n test -f /images/lxc/test.conf
>> Error: container test is not defined
> 
> I'd argue that this is also fine because the container does not exist on the
> "/var/lib/lxc" path so lxc-start is perfectly right to complain. The fact that
> this worked before is actually the real bug.
I don't think so.  lxc-start doesn't complain because it doesn't
exist in the default path, but because it doesn't (pre-)exist at all!

> So your solution should simply be to pass the path where the container actually
> exists to lxc-start:
> 
> 
> sudo lxc-start -F -n test -f /images/lxc/test.conf -P /images/lxc
It still doesn't work ("Error: container test is not defined").

I try to lxc-start a container that was never lxc-create'd.
>From the man page "lxc":
   VOLATILE CONTAINER
       It is not mandatory to create a container object before  to
start  it.
       The  container  can  be  directly  started with a configuration
file as
       parameter.

With the current version of lxc, I'm simply not able to do this :-(

  Detlef