On Saturday 31 October 2009, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:17:40PM -0400, Chuck wrote: > > i have been upgrading our hosts and vservers. this one host i upgraded > > from 2.6.26 kernel to 2.6.31. on reboot, i find that the host takes on > > the hostname of the last vserver started whichever one i make last!!! > > a subsequent hostname command, logout and login gives the host the > > proper name. > > > i start my vservers in local.start rather than use the init.d script. > > > any clues what is going on here? > > yes, your tools (util-vserver) are too old for that kernel, > and so your guests are not really isolated and can change > things on the host as well > > > using gentoo > > > i did not notice this behavior on any of the other hosts so far, but > > ithis also s the one that required the most upgrades. > > > the host and vservers appear to function fine, it seems it is only the > > last vserver to start names the host! > > appear, but as I said, the isolation is incomplete, due to > a change in mainline which affected how namespaces are > created .. > > updating util-vserver to a recent snapshot will fix the > issues. > ok upgrading now then will try a reboot to see... the system also changed the compiler from 4.1.2 to 4.3.4 so i am also worrying i may have to recompile world .. hope not.. > best, > Herbert > > > > > -- > > > > Chuck > -- Chuck