Subject: Re: [vserver] Issue with starting guests on Debian Etch host machine
From: Mike O'Connor <vserver@pineview.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:48:41 +0930

Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> vserver_at_pineview.net wrote:
>   
>> Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
>>     
>>> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:47:45AM +0930, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi All
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a problem where I'm unable to start guests on a Debian Etch
>>>>>> host
>>>>>> machine. (any host Redhat or Debian)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Example:
>>>>>> apps8:/etc/vservers# vserver refimage_debian_etch start
>>>>>> save_ctxinfo: open("/var/run/vservers/refimage_debian_etch"): No such
>>>>>> file or directory
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> does /var/run/vservers/ exist?
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>> Could we get the output of ls -ld / /var /var/run /var/run/vservers
>>> please?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> apps8:~# ls -ld / /var /var/run /var/run/vservers
>> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Jul 27 01:05 /
>> drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 1024 Apr 13 13:37 /var
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   11 Jul 22 14:40 /var/run -> /rw/var/run
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   40 Jul 27 01:21 /var/run/vservers
>>
>>
>> Before you say the link is the issue check out this machine (debian sarge)
>>     
>
> The link is the issue :-) I'm going to assume /rw is a separate
> filesystem, which means that it's going to get unmounted as part of the
> namespace cleanup. echo /rw >>
> /etc/vservers/.defaults/namespace-cleanup-skip should fix it.
>
>   
>>              util-vserver: 0.30.210; Feb  1 2006, 12:03:32
>>     
> Apples and oranges, this version doesn't have namespace cleanup.
>
>   
Well that did it, so where can I document this ?

Mike