This has taken me longer than it should have because I made some bad initial assumptions.
The appearance of a /dev/shm directory was a bit of a false flag. That was happening because the chroot case higher in initscripts.postinst was failing to create the /dev/shm symbolic link in the first place. It's source directory (/run/shm) needed to first be created, and then the arguments to compat_link() were reversed. I assumed they were correct because they were the same for the /var/lock symlink which is correctly created - but in fact the /var/lock symlink exists before that block of code. Here is a debdiff which appears to fix the /dev/shm symlink creation in a container for me. ** Patch added: "sysvinit-shm.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/974584/+attachment/3152926/+files/sysvinit-shm.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974584 Title: Semaphores cannot be created in lxc container To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/974584/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
