Public bug reported:

Dear all,

When trying to start an LXC container with Xenial on both host and
container, if sys_admin capability is dropped (lxc.cap.drop = sys_admin
in the config file), the container fails to start, because systemd fails
to mount the cgroup filesystem in the container. The workaround is to
manually mount the cgroup filesystem before starting the container
(using the lxc.mount.entry in the config file), but, LXC performs the
mount too early, before being in the container cgroup namespace, that
means what's mounted matches host cgroup namespace, not container
namespace.

The bug was already reported upstream[1][2], but didn't make it to Ubuntu yet, 
AFAIK.
A fix was merged in master[3], would it be possible to have it in Ubuntu Xenial?

So far, we manually patch Ubuntu LXC packages with that patch and
observed no régressions.

Thanks!

Cheers,
P. Schweitzer

[1]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/1597
[2]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/1606
[3]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/c1cecfdd050818865653d7941d7bae5d755246ae

** Affects: lxc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Starting Xenial lxc without cap_sysadmin fails

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