-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi List / Hollow, yesterday I downloaded a stage4 from Hollows page and installed it using the line given on http://people.linux-vserver.org/~hollow/stages/. I have a quite old kernel but utils are recent: Kernel: 2.6.15-vs2.1.0.4-gentoo VS-API: 0x00020001 util-vserver: 0.30.214; Oct 11 2007, 18:24:19 When I launch the server I get a startup error but the guest seems to be working afterwards: serverix ~ # vserver ftp start Gentoo/Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 Press I to enter interactive boot mode * /proc is already mounted, skipping * Using existing device nodes in /dev ... [ ok ] * getmntinfo: No such file or directory * Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ... [ !! ] * The "mount -n -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=0620,noexec,nosuid devpts /dev/pts" command failed with error: * permission denied * Since this is a critical task, startup cannot continue. * Halting [ !! ] * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * getmntinfo: No such file or directory * root filesystem is mounted read-write - skipping grep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory * getmntinfo: No such file or directory * Checking all filesystems ... [ ok ] * Mounting local filesystems ... [ ok ] * getmntinfo: No such file or directory * Mounting misc binary format filesystem ... mount: permission denied [ !! ] * Activating (possible) swap ... [ ok ] * Setting hostname to ftp ... [ ok ] * Updating environment ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ... [ ok ] * Wiping /tmp directory ... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator ... [ ok ] * You need an /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf file first! * There is a sample file in /etc/proftpd. * ERROR: proftpd failed to start * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [VPS] ... [ ok ] * Starting syslog-ng ... [ ok ] * Starting vixie-cron ... [ ok ] * Starting local ... [ ok ] I did not touch anything in the guest instead od installing mysql and proftpd. Any ideas Oliver - -- Protect your environment - close windows and adopt a penguin! PGP-Key: 3B2C 8095 A7DF 8BB5 2CFF 8168 CAB7 B0DD 3985 1721 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFHD6Yvyrew3TmFFyERAuKOAJdiIumko3MSgOZUxPc5u6wrhqeIAJwKn9az FIzKDAWOJzR1iL6QTApJaw== =lPxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----