Hi, Roderick. Your clue was also helpful and forced me to take a closer look at my command used for cloning. I realize now that I had an error in it, which I have since corrected. It was a careless error: vserver vs4_gent build -m clone --interface enp1s10:192.168.0.22/24 -- source /vservers/vs1 Anyway, I have another Gentoo guest. All's well that ends well. > -----Original Message----- > From: Roderick Anderson [mailto:raanders42@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 1:34 PM > To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > Subject: Re: [vserver] Cloning Gentoo vserver guest error > > Hey. I've been here before. > > I think Dennis missed an asterisk. > > ls -la /etc/vservers/*/vdir > > > Rod > -- > On 10/06/2014 11:19 AM, John A. Wallace wrote: > > Hi, Dennis. When I did the command you mentioned, it appeared to me > > that the first part worked fine, showing the files I would expect to > > see at "/etc/vservers", namely: > > > > .defaults > > .distributions > > VS1 > > VS2 > > VS3 > > Etc... > > > > However, the second part of the command does appear to have a > problem, > > showing this: > > > > "ls: cannot access /etc/vservers//vdir: No such file or directory". > > > > Which symbolic link, as you mentioned, is missing? > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Dennis Roos [mailto:dennis.roos@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 4:42 AM > >> To: John Wallace > >> Cc: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > >> Subject: Re: [vserver] Cloning Gentoo vserver guest error > >> > >> Dear John, > >> > >> > >> Start with an ls -la /etc/vservers/ && ls -la /etc/vservers//vdir > my > >> guess is that either the symlink is broken (points to a non-existing > >> path) or the directory doesn't exist at all. > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> Dennis Roos > >> > >> > >> On Oct 6, 2014, at 4:16 , John Wallace wrote: > >> > >>> When I tried cloning an existing, fully functional Vserver guest > >> running Gentoo, I get the following error: > >>> > >>> "/usr/lib/util-server/functions: line 83: cd : /etc/vservers//vdir: > >> No such file or directory" > >>> > >>> (That is not a typo with double slashes between vservers and vdir.) > >>> > >>> Here is what I see in util-vserver lines 81-84: > >>> > >>> function getPhysicalDir > >>> { > >>> (set -P && cd "$1" && pwd) > >>> } > >>> > >>> I am not a programmer and cannot see whether there is any error in > >> that code. I know that I have cloned in the past using the same > >> method but with a Debian guest, not Gentoo, and I have surely > updated > >> a few programs since then. I am using Gentoo Linux 3.13.11- > vs2.3.6.11 > >> on the host. The installed version of util-vserver is > >> 0.30.216_pre3038. If someone has an idea about how to troubleshoot > >> this, I would appreciate hearing about it, and I can provide > >> additional information if necessary. > >>> > >>> > > > > > >