On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:45:43PM -0600, David Vanfleet wrote: > Hi, I'm runing Linux Vserver 2.2.0.7 on OpenSuse 10.3 with the > 2.6.22.19 Kernel, and I'm trying to instill Debian (Lenny) as a > guest. I installed lenny successfully with the following command: > vserver debian_lenny_template build \ -m debootstrap > \ --hostname debian_lenny_template.amwestonline.com > \ --interface eth0:66.62.37.145/24 \ -- -d lenny -m > [1]http://ftp.debian.org/debian > However, when I tried to start the guest I get the following error: > /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. An error occured while executing the vserver startup > sequence; when there are no other messages, it is very likely > that the init-script (/etc/init.d/rc 3) 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 'debian_lenny_template' IIRC, debian changed something, and older util-vserver do not do the proper cleanup/setup inside a guest ... in your case, maybe creating this file (/etc/default/rcS) inside the guest will do the trick best, Herbert > I'm new to vserver but I understand that some of the services running > in the guest need to be turned off, the ones that access any hardware > devices. In this case I suspect that some service is trying to start > that is not valid in a guest. I'm not sure what needs to be done here > to fix this problem, I don't know what it means to append "true" to > some file, I'm not even user Fedora Core or RH9. Any help here would > be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David > > References > > 1. http://ftp.debian.org/debian