On Saturday 31 October 2009, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:17:40PM -0400, Chuck wrote:
> > i have been upgrading our hosts and vservers. this one host i upgraded
> > from 2.6.26 kernel to 2.6.31. on reboot, i find that the host takes on
> > the hostname of the last vserver started whichever one i make last!!!
> > a subsequent hostname command, logout and login gives the host the
> > proper name.
>
> > i start my vservers in local.start rather than use the init.d script.
>
> > any clues what is going on here?
>
> yes, your tools (util-vserver) are too old for that kernel,
> and so your guests are not really isolated and can change
> things on the host as well
>
> > using gentoo
>
> > i did not notice this behavior on any of the other hosts so far, but
> > ithis also s the one that required the most upgrades.
>
> > the host and vservers appear to function fine, it seems it is only the
> > last vserver to start names the host!
>
> appear, but as I said, the isolation is incomplete, due to
> a change in mainline which affected how namespaces are
> created ..
>
> updating util-vserver to a recent snapshot will fix the
> issues.
>
yep that fixed it. gonna do the same on the other servers that got the new
kernel so far... thank you all!
> best,
> Herbert
>
> >
> > --
> >
> > Chuck
>
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Chuck