On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:54:30PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > 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... :-( if you get segfaults with that branch, you definitely have some serious hardware or software issues (e.g. toolchain), please provide more information and a test case which segfaults for you ... information: 'vserver-info - SYSINFO' 'testme.sh-0.17 -v' TIA, Herbert > Jarry