Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 07:27:36PM +0200, Jarry wrote: >> I have a gentoo-guest with just a basic install, the only extra >> service installed is bind. Mostly it starts and works without any >> problem, but there is about 10% chance that starting this guest >> fails with following messages: >> ---------------------------------- >> vserver vs4-dns start >> /usr/sbin/chbind: line 135: 7645 Segmentation fault >> "${create_cmd[@]}" "${chain_cmd[@]}" -- "$@" >> >> An error occured while executing the vserver startup sequence; when >> there are no other messages, it is very likely that the init-script >> (env TERM=xterm /lib/rc/sh/init-vserver.sh default) failed. >> >> Common causes are: >> * /etc/rc.d/rc on Fedora Core 1 and RH9 fails always; the 'apt-rpm' build >> method knows how to deal with this, but on existing installations, >> appending 'true' to this file will help. >> >> Failed to start vserver 'vs4-dns' >> ----------------------------------- >> >> I did not find any regularity in this. Mostly it works, but in some >> rare ocasions simply does not. And apart from that, I noticed one >> strange message while stopping this guest which might be related to >> the above mentioned error: >> >> ----------------------------------- >> vserver vs4-dns stop >> Device and target are missing; try '--help' for more information >> ----------------------------------- >> >> What could be reason for that "device and target missing"? >> And even more important: why do I get random segmentation faults? > > did you try with a recent kernel and util-vserver snapshot? I have the last stable vserver-kernel (2.6.22 + 2.2.0.7) and util-vserver (0.30.215). I do not want to play with exp/dev releases as this should be a stable server. Though it looks so, it is not so stable as I'd expect. I still get seg-faults... :-( Jarry