Bug 213798 – sys-cluster/vzctl has no predefined way to disable module loading while starting

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Victor Roman Archidona 2008-03-18 09:26:45 UTC]

Hi,

package sys-cluster/vzctl, the userspace tools for OpenVZ provides an script (/etc/init.d/vz) that must be started before any container.

That script checks if the MODULES_DISABLED is set to "yes" to not load kernel modules, usefull for those who don't use kernel loadable modules. 

For now there isn't a predefined way to set that variable, so I put it usually into /etc/conf.d/vz.

This is a request to add that variable in a config file, providing an easy way to disable module loading.

In machines which module support isn't compiled the init script fails.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build your kernel w/o module support
2. emerge vzctl
3. /etc/init.d/vz start

Actual Results:  
init script does not starts

Expected Results:  
init scripts starts in machines w/ and w/o module support compiled into kernel.

[Comment 1 Victor Roman Archidona 2008-03-18 09:31:12 UTC]

Example using vz and module support not compiled:

machine ~ # /etc/init.d/vz start
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                       [ ok ]
 * Loading OpenVZ modules ...
 * failed to load module vzmon                                            [ !! ]
machine ~ # 

[Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2008-05-13 10:21:41 UTC]

Added URL to upstream bug tracker.

[Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2008-07-14 06:12:40 UTC]

Thank you for report. This bug should be fixed in vzctl-3.0.22-r1. FIXED.