Hi, The creation of a new LXC container is now falling because stage3 archives are no longer in bzip2 format but xz: samis ~ # lxc-create -t gentoo -n build-grifon -f /etc/lxc/guest.conf ### set_default_arch: default arch/variant autodetect... => Got: arch=amd64 variant=amd64 Attempting to obtain an exclusive lock (timeout: 60 sec) named "cache-amd64-amd64"... => done. => Executing "do_all" ###### cache_setup(): doing cache preparation ### cache_precheck(): doing some pre-start checks ... ### cache_stage3(): stage3 cache deployment... Determining path to latest Gentoo amd64 (amd64) stage3 archive... => downloading and processing http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/latest-stage3-amd64.txt => Got: 20180724T214502Z/stage3-amd64-20180724T214502Z.tar.xz Downloading/untarring the actual stage3 tarball... --2018-07-25 11:27:20-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20180724T214502Z/stage3-amd64-20180724T214502Z.tar.xz Résolution de distfiles.gentoo.org… 2a00:8a60:e012:a00::21, 2600:3402:200:227::2, 2600:3404:200:237::2, ... Connexion à distfiles.gentoo.org|2a00:8a60:e012:a00::21|:80… connecté. requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse… 200 OK Taille : 198189064 (189M) [application/x-xz] Sauvegarde en : « STDOUT » - 0%[ ] 0 --.-KB/s bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. tar: Child died with signal 13 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now - 0%[ ] 20,87K --.-KB/s ds 0,02s Impossible d’écrire dans « - » (Relais brisé (pipe)). [the last exit code leading to this death was: 2 ] Error: unable to fetch or untar lxc-create: build-grifon: lxccontainer.c: create_run_template: 1473 container creation template for build-grifon failed lxc-create: build-grifon: tools/lxc_create.c: main: 329 Error creating container build-grifon I had to change the tar command options to make it work (and by the way add the options given at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Stage#Unpacking_the_stage_tarball): samis ~ # diff /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-gentoo /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-gentoo.bak 170c170 < | tar -xJpf - --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner -C "${partialfs}" \ --- > | tar -xjpf - --numeric-owner -C "${partialfs}" \ Regards, -- alarig
This appears to have been fixed upstream already: https://github.com/lxc/lxc-templates/blob/master/templates/lxc-gentoo.in#L171 The best thing to do would be to upgrade to LXC 3.x.
Indeed, it’s fixed in 3.x. We were still in 2.x when I reported the bug ;) Thanks, -- Alarig Le Lay
