This seems to explain it, currently trying to teach myself apparmor to
find a temporary fix...
apps kernel: [ 707.036112] audit: type=1400 audit(1445331859.865:41):
apparmor="DENIED" operation="mount" info="failed type match" error=-13
profile="/usr/bin/lxc-start" name="/dev/ptmx" pid=2746 comm="
I can confirm the same as what Stephen just said.
Servers rebooted overnight for the security patch and none of the LXC
containers restarted or can be started.
lxc-start: conf.c: setup_pts: 1772 Permission denied - mount failed
'/dev/pts/ptmx'->'/dev/ptmx'
This is on a live 14.04 LTS server
Aga