I found a case where lxc-start tries to execute the host systems init again. This was triggered by running lxc-create and forgetting to add the -f parameter causing an empty config file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run lxc-config with the name only. 2. Then start the container with lxc-start Actual Results: Here is when I forgot the -f parameter to lxc-create localhost lxc # lxc-stop -n guest_1 localhost lxc # ls -al /etc/lxc/guest_1/config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 20 10:19 /etc/lxc/guest_1/config localhost lxc # rm -rf /etc/lxc/guest_1 localhost lxc # lxc-create -n guest_1 -f guest_1.conf localhost lxc # ls -al /etc/lxc/guest_1/config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 877 Jan 20 10:22 /etc/lxc/guest_1/config localhost lxc # lxc-start -n guest_1 INIT: version 2.87 booting Loading /lib64/rc/console/keymap OpenRC 0.6.0 is starting up Gentoo Linux (x86_64) * Mounting /proc ... [ ok ] * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Setting hostname to gentoo-lxc-guest ... [ ok ] * Configuring kernel parameters ... [ ok ] * Creating user login records ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/run ... [ ok ] * Wiping /tmp directory ... [ ok ] * Setting terminal encoding [UTF-8] ... /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty5: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty6: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty7: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty8: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty9: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty10: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty11: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty12: Operation not permitted [ ok ] * Setting keyboard mode [UTF-8] ... Couldn't open /dev/tty1 Couldn't open /dev/tty2 Couldn't open /dev/tty3 Couldn't open /dev/tty4 Couldn't open /dev/tty5 Couldn't open /dev/tty6 Couldn't open /dev/tty7 Couldn't open /dev/tty8 Couldn't open /dev/tty9 Couldn't open /dev/tty10 Couldn't open /dev/tty11 Couldn't open /dev/tty12 [ ok ] * Loading key mappings [us] ... [ ok ] * Starting network [ ok ] * Adding static routes ... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator ... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * Mounting network filesystems ... [ ok ] * Starting syslog-ng ... Jan 20 10:22:55 gentoo-lxc-guest syslog-ng[325]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.4' [ ok ] * Starting sshd ... Jan 20 10:22:56 gentoo-lxc-guest sshd[339]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. [ ok ] * Starting local ... [ ok ] Here is the output of this: localhost lxc # lxc-create -n guest_1 localhost lxc # ls -al /etc/lxc/guest_1/config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 20 10:19 /etc/lxc/guest_1/config localhost lxc # lxc-start -n guest_1 INIT: version 2.86 booting Loading /lib64/rc/console/keymap OpenRC 0.6.0 is starting up Gentoo Linux (x86_64) [LXC] Press I to enter interactive boot mode * /proc is already mounted, skipping hwclock | * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... [ ok ]k | termencoding | * Setting terminal encoding [UTF-8] ... hostname | * Setting hostname to localhost ... [ ok ]coding | [ ok ]me | modules | * Autoloaded 0 module(s) udev-mount | * /dev is already mounted sysctl | * Configuring kernel parameters ... [ ok ] | udev | * Starting udevd ... udev | * start-stop-daemon: /sbin/udevd is already running [ !! ] | udev | * start-stop-daemon: 1 process refused to stop udev | * ERROR: udev failed to start fsck | * Checking local filesystems ... fsck |/dev/sda1: clean, 132/34136 files, 122136/136520 blocks [ ok ] | mtab | * Updating /etc/mtab ... [ ok ] | localmount | * Mounting local filesystems ... [ ok ]ount | urandom | * Initializing random number generator ... swap | * Activating swap devices ... [ ok ]m | bootmisc | * Creating user login records ... procfs | * Mounting USB device filesystem [usbfs] ... [ ok ] | [ ok ]sc | procfs |mount: usbfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy procfs |mount: according to mtab, usbfs is already mounted on /proc/bus/usb bootmisc | * Cleaning /var/run ... [ !! ] | [ ok ]sc | bootmisc | * Wiping /tmp directory ... [ ok ]sc | keymaps | * Setting keyboard mode [UTF-8] ... net.lo | * Bringing up interface lo [ ok ]s | keymaps | * Loading key mappings [us] ... [ ok ]s | net.lo | * 127.0.0.1/8 ... [ ok ] | net.lo | * Adding routes net.lo | * 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 ... [ ok ] | INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 udev | * Starting udevd ... udev | * start-stop-daemon: /sbin/udevd is already running [ !! ] | udev | * start-stop-daemon: 1 process refused to stop udev | * ERROR: udev failed to start virtualbox-guest-additions| * Starting VirtualBox guest additions ... virtualbox-guest-additions| * Loading kernel modules and creating devices net.eth0 | * Bringing up interface eth0 syslog-ng | * Starting syslog-ng ... virtualbox-guest-additions| * Starting the vboxadd system service syslog-ng | * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/syslog-ng is already running syslog-ng | * Failed to start syslog-ng [ !! ]-ng | syslog-ng | * ERROR: syslog-ng failed to start [ ok ]lbox-guest-additions| netmount | * Mounting network filesystems ... [ ok ]nt | sshd | * Starting sshd ... sshd | * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/sshd is already running vixie-cron | * Starting vixie-cron ... [ !! ] | sshd | * ERROR: sshd failed to start vixie-cron | * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/cron is already running [ !! ]cron | vixie-cron | * ERROR: vixie-cron failed to start net.eth0 | * null ... [ ok ]h0 | net.br0 | * Bringing up interface br0 This is gentoo-lxc-guest.unknown_domain (Linux x86_64 2.6.32-gentoo) 10:22:57 gentoo-lxc-guest login: Expected Results: Now when I do things properly: localhost lxc # rm -rf /etc/lxc/guest_1 localhost lxc # lxc-create -n guest_1 -f guest_1.conf localhost lxc # ls -al /etc/lxc/guest_1/config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 877 Jan 20 10:22 /etc/lxc/guest_1/config localhost lxc # lxc-start -n guest_1 INIT: version 2.87 booting Loading /lib64/rc/console/keymap OpenRC 0.6.0 is starting up Gentoo Linux (x86_64) * Mounting /proc ... [ ok ] * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Setting hostname to gentoo-lxc-guest ... [ ok ] * Configuring kernel parameters ... [ ok ] * Creating user login records ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/run ... [ ok ] * Wiping /tmp directory ... [ ok ] * Setting terminal encoding [UTF-8] ... /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty5: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty6: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty7: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty8: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty9: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty10: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty11: Operation not permitted /etc/init.d/termencoding: line 31: /dev/tty12: Operation not permitted [ ok ] * Setting keyboard mode [UTF-8] ... Couldn't open /dev/tty1 Couldn't open /dev/tty2 Couldn't open /dev/tty3 Couldn't open /dev/tty4 Couldn't open /dev/tty5 Couldn't open /dev/tty6 Couldn't open /dev/tty7 Couldn't open /dev/tty8 Couldn't open /dev/tty9 Couldn't open /dev/tty10 Couldn't open /dev/tty11 Couldn't open /dev/tty12 [ ok ] * Loading key mappings [us] ... [ ok ] * Starting network [ ok ] * Adding static routes ... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator ... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * Mounting network filesystems ... [ ok ] * Starting syslog-ng ... Jan 20 10:22:55 gentoo-lxc-guest syslog-ng[325]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.4' [ ok ] * Starting sshd ... Jan 20 10:22:56 gentoo-lxc-guest sshd[339]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. [ ok ] * Starting local ... [ ok ] This is gentoo-lxc-guest.unknown_domain (Linux x86_64 2.6.32-gentoo) 10:22:57 gentoo-lxc-guest login:
I am told (from the new lxc-users mailing list) the following patch fixes this issue: http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=commit;h=f2ae79a04567fb8c1181f4d3331d2b7a48889cf3 I am also told 0.6.5 is supposed to be released this week and it will include the patch.
That patch is already in 0.6.4-r2. 0.6.5 is out but it's not working right for me so I haven't committed it yet.
This error occurred when I was using 0.6.4-r2.
