Subject: Re: [vserver] Failed to start vserver
From: "David Vanfleet" <vanfleet@cedarview.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:42:11 -0700

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
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