On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 12:23:57PM +0000, Richard Chan wrote: > Any suggestions on how to instrument systemd inside a CentOS 7 container > (running under docker 1.13 Fedora 27 beta) to determine why it doesn't launch > logind journald dbus-daemon and other units? > > > What is the main reason that systemd-journald would fail to launch? > > > The container was created under Fedora 26 and configured to just launch sshd: > > > FROM centos:7 > ENV container docker > STOPSIGNAL SIGRTMIN+3 > CMD [ "/sbin/init" ] > RUN yum -y install systemd openssh-server procps-ng; systemctl enable sshd > RUN echo 'root:passwordxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' | chpasswd > > (I amrelying on all the oci hooks to mount cgroups etc with the correct > permissions and labels). > > Under Fedora 26, docker exec container ps -ef > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > root 1 0 0 11:51 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/init > root 17 1 0 11:51 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald > root 25 1 0 11:51 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind > dbus 26 1 0 11:51 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system > --address=sys > root 27 1 0 11:51 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D > > Under Fedora 27 beta: > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > root 1 0 0 11:51 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/init > > We can't seem to startup journald and friends. /var/lib/docker/ is unchanged > from Fedora 26. > When I boot back into Fedora 26 and launch the container all the units after > /sbin/init work.
You probably need to look at the logs produced by systemd. This should show why systemd cannot launch processes. I'm afraid there aren't that many docker experts on this list, and this is a question about docker / systemd compatibility. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel