On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 13:23 +0300, Erdem Bayer wrote: > Hi > > I have a debian lenny i386 vserver running on lenny amd64 host with the following fstab entry: > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /tmp tmpfs size=256m,mode=1777 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > /home /home bind bind 0 0 > /iscsi/www /var/www bind bind 0 0 > /iscsi/log/concero /var/log bind bind 0 0 > > When I start a vserver, I see these errors in the output: > > secure-mount: mount(): Invalid argument > /etc/vservers/concero/fstab:5:1: failed to mount fstab-entry > secure-mount: mount(): Invalid argument > /etc/vservers/concero/fstab:6:1: failed to mount fstab-entry > > But the vserver starts and the directories in fstab file are mounted anyway. > > I don't know if it makes a difference but /home fs is ext3, /iscsi is formatted with ocfs2 and mounted with iscsi. I can mount them manually with the following command: > > sudo mount --bind /iscsi/log/concero /etc/vservers/concero/vdir/var/log > > When I dig deeper I found that secure-mount is called with the following parameters: > > ++ pushd /etc/vservers/concero/vdir > ++ test -w etc -o -w etc/mtab > ++ /usr/lib/util-vserver/secure-mount -a --chroot --fstab /etc/vservers/concero/fstab --rootfs no > > Here are the strace of the manual running of secure-mount (if it helps): > > > chroot(".") = 0 > chdir("/") = 0 > fchdir(3) = 0 > chroot(".") = 0 > chdir("/var/www") = 0 > open(".", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 > fchdir(4) = 0 > chroot(".") = 0 > fchdir(6) = 0 > close(6) = 0 > mount("/iscsi/www", ".", 0x7fffdf03e67f, MS_NODEV|MS_BIND, 0x7f9ad703f070) = 0 > fchdir(3) = 0 > chroot(".") = 0 > chdir("/var/www") = 0 > open(".", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 > fchdir(4) = 0 > chroot(".") = 0 > fchdir(6) = 0 > close(6) = 0 > mount("/iscsi/www", ".", 0x7fffdf03e67f, MS_NODEV|MS_REMOUNT, NULL) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) > write(2, "secure-mount: mount()"..., 21secure-mount: mount()) = 21 > write(2, ": "..., 2: ) = 2 > write(2, "Invalid argument"..., 16Invalid argument) = 16 > write(2, "\n"..., 1 > ) = 1 > write(2, "/etc/vservers/concero/fstab"..., 27/etc/vservers/concero/fstab) = 27 > write(2, ":5:1"..., 4:5:1) = 4 > write(2, ": failed to mount fstab-entry\n"..., 30: failed to mount fstab-entry > ) = 30 > chdir("/") = 0 > fchdir(3) = 0 > > > chroot(".") = 0 > chdir("/var/log") = 0 > open(".", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 > fchdir(4) = 0 > chroot(".") = 0 > fchdir(6) = 0 > close(6) = 0 > mount("/iscsi/log/concero", ".", 0x7fffdf03e6a9, MS_NODEV|MS_BIND, 0x7f9ad703f090) = 0 > fchdir(3) = 0 > chroot(".") = 0 > chdir("/var/log") = 0 > open(".", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 > fchdir(4) = 0 > chroot(".") = 0 > fchdir(6) = 0 > close(6) = 0 > mount("/iscsi/log/concero", ".", 0x7fffdf03e6a9, MS_NODEV|MS_REMOUNT, NULL) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) > write(2, "secure-mount: mount()"..., 21secure-mount: mount()) = 21 > write(2, ": "..., 2: ) = 2 > write(2, "Invalid argument"..., 16Invalid argument) = 16 > write(2, "\n"..., 1 > ) = 1 > write(2, "/etc/vservers/concero/fstab"..., 27/etc/vservers/concero/fstab) = 27 > write(2, ":6:1"..., 4:6:1) = 4 > write(2, ": failed to mount fstab-entry\n"..., 30: failed to mount fstab-entry > ) = 30 > close(5) = 0 > _exit(0) = ? > > Kind Regards > Erdem Bayer Might it be faster and easier to do the bind mounts from the host, e.g., /somesource/iscsi/log/concero /vservers/vserver1/var/log bind bind 0 0 -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular society