Subject: Re: [vserver] About Ubuntu Karmic Koala ...
From: Thomas Weber <l_vserver@mail2news.4t2.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:26:15 +0100

Am Samstag, den 07.11.2009, 03:18 -0600 schrieb Dragan Saraginov:
> Thanks Tom for your directions. I was able to solve the problem. I
> followed your suggestions quoted below

You're welcome.

> > You can set the init style to plain for your 9.04 vserver and/or replace
> > the upstart package with sysvinit. Restart the vserver and you should be
> > able to finish the upgrade process BUT you will run into the upstart
> > issue after that (in 9.10 there seems to be no sysvinit package to
> > replace upstart anymore).
> 
> and I was able to upgrade my Ubuntu 9.04 powered VPS to Ubuntu 9.10
> without any problem. The upgrade procedure went fine. After the upgrade
> was done I deleted the 'style' file from the configuration. Next, rebooted
> the VPS. As I can see now everything seems to be working like it should.
> The only thing I did not do was replacement of the upstart package with
> sysvinit, but as I said the upgrade went fine and my VPS is working like
> it should.

Though the problem still exists: upstart won't work out of the box with
linux-vserver. With style=plain it really should.

Installing ubuntu 9.10 inside a vserver wont work (you did a tricky
update). And I guess any upstart based distribution will fail too.

  Tom