Just seen this happen again on a different machine and may have worked out when it started happening.
It looks like my scripts had just cloned a container from my template container using overlayfs, then tried to start the new container. I now not run the following commands whilst referencing this container: lxc-start lxc-destroy Any attempt to run them hangs and I get very similar trace level debug for both commands when trying to start either the template container or the clone: sudo lxc-start -n ubuntutemplate -l trace -o startTemplate.out <left it for a few minutes> ^C cat startTemplate.out: lxc-start 1432292499.352 INFO lxc_start_ui - lxc_start.c:main:265 - using rcfile /var/lib/lxc/ubuntutemplate/config lxc-start 1432292499.352 WARN lxc_log - log.c:lxc_log_init:316 - lxc_log_init called with log already initialized Only difference is the destroy log doesn't show the "using rcfile" message, only the log warning. The previously reported error occurs when I run lxc-ls with any of the optional flags such as -f, --running etc. Plain lxc-ls with no flags seems to return without error. Also, lxc commands on other containers other than my template and clone seem to be fine. My issue is that without being able to lxc-destroy the container, I have no idea how to get rid of the problem containers to resolve my issue. I will do some more investigation and see if I find anything else, the big thing to know would be how to manually remove an lxc container (if it's possible). _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users