Package: lxc
Version: 0.8.0~rc1-8
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I could not get a console from the container with neither lxc-start nor
lxc-console after setting up a debian sid container.
The only way to access the container was with ssh.
sudo lxc-create -n sid -t debian
# choose sid and wait for container build process
sudo lxc-start -n sid
The output of the lxc-start is
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miguel@quartor:~$ sudo lxc-start -n sid
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
[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: Fri Jul 6 04:28:25 UTC 2012 ... (warning).
[ ok ] Activating swap...done.
mount: can't find / in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
[warn] Creating compatibility symlink from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. ...
(warning).
[ ok ] Cleaning up temporary files... /tmp.
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.
mount: permission denied
mount: permission denied
mount: permission denied
[ ok ] Setting kernel variables ...done.
[ ok ] Cleaning up temporary files....
[....] Configuring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client
4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:61:00:00:00
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:61:00:00:00
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.5 -- renewal in 1715 seconds.
done.
[ ok ] Cleaning up temporary files....
[FAIL] startpar: service(s) returned failure: hostname.sh ... failed!
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
[info] Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 2.
[ ok ] Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
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And there is no console. After a while some new output:
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INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
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Even with lxc-console:
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miguel@quartor:~$ sudo lxc-console -n sid
Type <Ctrl+a q> to exit the console, <Ctrl+a Ctrl+a> to enter Ctrl+a itself
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After some digging about this I've found that this could be some debconf
settings in live-config that are not working:
root@quartor:/# debconf-get-selections |grep lxc
unknown live-debconfig/sysvinit/lxc-consoles string 6
unknown live-debconfig/sysvinit/lxc-enable boolean false
I've tried to use a preseed file to set lxc-enable to true and create a
new container but it had no results. The new container still had
lxc-enable false.
Then I've looked to backends/debconf/0030-sysvinit in live-config source
code. Then I've edited the /etc/inittab in the container and the
relevant part was this:
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1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
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After editing those lines to the following and restarting the container
I could get a console right after lxc-start.
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1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 console
c1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 console
#c2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 console
#c3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
#c4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
#c5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
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I've reported this to lxc package because I'm not sure if this is a lxc
debian template problem or if it is only a live-config package problem.
Decided to report to lxc because it was where the issue came up. Please
reassign if necessary.
Thank you
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set
to pt_PT.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lxc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.44
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libcap2 1:2.22-1
ii multiarch-support 2.13-33
Versions of packages lxc recommends:
ii debootstrap 1.0.41
ii libcap2-bin 1:2.22-1
Versions of packages lxc suggests:
pn lxctl <none>
-- debconf information:
lxc/directory: /home/lxc
lxc/title:
lxc/auto: true
lxc/shutdown: /usr/bin/lxc-halt
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