Hi everybody, I'm sorry, since I'm pretty sure that this have been taken care of already, but I just subscribed and searching the archives has proven to be a bit of a pain.
Anyway, here are my problems: I'm a happy vserver user on Debian 6 (squeeze). Since Debian wheezy is going to drop vserver support for lxc, I took this occasion to rent a new server on which I installed wheezy in the hope of migrating my various vservers into a lxc setup. I read http://wiki.debian.org/LXC and created my first container this way, as stated: # lxc-create -n vshell01 -t debian Then I wanted to start this container: # lxc-start -n vshell01 Which gives a lot of unwanted results: INIT: version 2.88 booting [info] Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S. hostname: you must be root to change the host name mount: permission denied mount: permission denied mount: permission denied mount: permission denied [info] Setting the system clock. hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. hwclock: Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. [warn] Unable to set System Clock to: Sun Jul 29 19:08:40 UTC 2012 ... (warning). [ ok ] Activating swap...done. mount: permission denied mount: permission denied mount: permission denied mount: permission denied [warn] Mount point '/dev/console' does not exist. Skipping mount. ... (warning). [warn] Mount point '/dev/ptmx' does not exist. Skipping mount. ... (warning). [ ok ] Activating lvm and md swap...done. [....] Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 done. [ ok ] Mounting local filesystems...done. [ ok ] Activating swapfile swap...done. [ ok ] Cleaning up temporary files.... [ ok ] Configuring network interfaces...done. [ ok ] Cleaning up temporary files.... [ ok ] Setting kernel variables ...done. [FAIL] startpar: service(s) returned failure: hostname.sh ... failed! INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 [info] Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 2. [....] Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdCould not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key Damn, that's really not that polished: 1/ "you must be root to change the hostname" message. 2/ mount reports a lot of permission denied. 3/ hwclock is unable to set the system clock 4/ the sshd service which seems to have been installed from the template is unable to load its keys. All of which I am ready to deal with later, but the most important one for me is the messages I got after the boot process: INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel Which means that I'm stuck in the container console without a shell :( I googled a bit and found this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662913 Following the advises here, I kindly installed the linux-container package, and installed the resulting .deb package from /var/cache/apt/archives into /usr/share/lxc. That seems to make no difference when I destroy and recreate my container. The maintainer also advises to read the doc into /usr/share/doc/lxc, rather than the Debian wiki page. So I did, and found nothing close to the instructions on the wiki page, just a few steps that were not that useful. To add insult to injury, when I open a new shell on my host and try to stop the container I cannot access, like this: # lxc-halt -n vshell01 ... the connection to my host is dropping. I cannot access the host again unless I ask the hosting provider to perform an electrical reboot of the server. I cannot believe that lxc is that immature. I may surely be missing a lot of things, or is the Debian packaging of lxc such a pity? Help will be warmly welcome. Thanks for reading, and for any clue :) Kind regards. -- Loïc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
