[lxc-users] Help with debci/lxc for local autopkgtest testing

[Ross Gammon]

Hi,

I am new to the list, as am having problems that are probably caused by
some old lxc containers that I can't seem to get rid of.

I would like to use the pkg-ruby/meta scripts to run the autopkgtests in
my Debian packages locally, on my Ubuntu bionic machine. But I seem to
have got myself in a mess with previous attempts to set up debci.

The setup script is here:

https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/meta/blob/master/setup

It sets up some lxc parameters, and then runs: $ sudo auto-apt-proxy
debci setup

I get:

Starting testbed setup: Thu Nov 15 17:10:18 CET 2018
Error creating container autopkgtest-sid-amd64
Failed to load config for adt-sid-amd64
Failed to load config for autopkgtest-lxc-jnxotl
Failed to load config for autopkgtest-lxc-pclpbt
Failed to load config for autopkgtest-lxc-qhzbek
Failed to load config for autopkgtest-sid
Failed to load config for adt-sid-amd64
Failed to load config for autopkgtest-lxc-jnxotl
Failed to load config for autopkgtest-lxc-pclpbt
Failed to load config for autopkgtest-lxc-qhzbek
Failed to load config for autopkgtest-sid

The problem has been there for a while, but I thought I would try and
track down the issue today. Today, I followed the documentation
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/getting-started/ and everything is
working fine for general lxc usage.

But none of the lxc commands can find the above containers or
delete/destroy them though. I can see the named containers with:

$ sudo ls /var/lib/lxc/
adt-sid-amd64        autopkgtest-lxc-pclpbt    autopkgtest-sid
autopkgtest-lxc-jnxotl    autopkgtest-lxc-qhzbek

How can I delete them? Alternatively, does anyone know another way to
create a suitable container called autopkgtest-sid-amd64 in Ubuntu?

Regards,

Ross