No I did not add the rcS file to the guest, I added it to the host. That may be my problem (I'm not sure whyI didn't think of that:). I'll give that a try, thanks for your help. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corey Wright" <undefined@pobox.com> To: "David Vanfleet" <vanfleet@cedarview.net> Cc: <vserver@list.linux-vserver.org> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [vserver] Failed to start vserver > On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:37:50 -0700 > "David Vanfleet" <vanfleet@cedarview.net> wrote: > >> [root@server3 ~]# vserver vps1 start >> /etc/init.d/rc: line 74: /etc/default/rcS: No such file or directory >> error: '/etc/init.d/rc' exited outside the expected code flow. > >> I have not been able to resolve this problem, I was able to add the >> missing rcS file but I still get the exact same error below. Any help >> here would be greatly appreciated. > > if you added /etc/default/rcS to your *guest*, then that error message > (i.e. "/etc/init.d/rc: line 74: /etc/default/rcS: No such file or > directory") should not have been seen. /etc/init.d/rc, on line 74 > parses /etc/default/rcS, and will emit that error message if the file does > not exist, but if you added the file, then it should be there. otherwise > something greater is amiss. (filesystem namespace mismatch? but that > shouldn't be the case as the guest is not yet running as you are trying to > start it.) > > so my only thought: are you sure you added /etc/default/rcS to the guest? > (not that i don't believe you, but that's what the error message is > hinting > at.) > > corey > -- > undefined@pobox.com