Thanks Corey and Ghislain, Upgrading to the util-vserver hosted on psand fixed the problem. I had been running 2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7 with the generic debian lenny util-vserver on another server for 6 months with no problems (that I knew of!) but this system didn't have XFS. I'll upgrade that one next to make sure this doesn't bite me in some other way. Upgrading util-vserver was somewhat of a pain. I had my vservers in /vservers instead of /var/lib/vservers. From what I could see neither package on psand really fit my needs exactly but I went with util-vserver-baisc-debian. No matter what trickery I used, I could not get the pre-install script to accept my configuration. Even after changing vdirbase and symlinking /var/lib/vservers to /vservers the pre-install script would fail. I finally removed /vservers and re-mounted my slices to /var/lib/vservers. All is ok now! I guess I could have built my own util-vserver, but I was lazy :) Now I just miss vserver-debiantools. Thanks again, Eric Corey Wright wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:58:58 +0200 > Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com> wrote: > > >>> I first observed this problem after an upgrade to 2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7 >>> which I built myself. After reading about various XFS issues in >>> "recent" kernels I tried using an image from the psand repository: >>> 2.6.31.12-vs2.3.0.36.28-beng. I still observe the same behavior. Up >>> until this recent upgrade I had been using the debian etch kernel >>> 2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64. Oddly, switching back to this kernel doesn't >>> resolve the issue, so perhaps it's not vserver related at all ... or >>> it could be util-vserver related. I haven't tried changing my >>> util-vserver version yet. >>> >> when you upgrade to 2.3 you MUST use 2.3 tools that is the lastest from >> daniel repository from source or from beng debian package repository ( >> utils-vserver-basic-debian package) >> >> see http://linux-vserver.org/util-vserver:Devdebianpackage >> > > or backport what's in testing/squeeze to stable/lenny, as i've been testing > 2.6.32.10-vs2.3.0.36.29.2 and 0.30.216-pre2864 has worked so far (at least > with ext3). > > it's pretty easy (see attached patch for required changes to package): > * wget -Nv > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-vserver/util-vserver_0.30.216-pre2864-1.dsc > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-vserver/util-vserver_0.30.216-pre2864.orig.tar.gz > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-vserver/util-vserver_0.30.216-pre2864-1.diff.gz > * dpkg-source -x util-vserver_0.30.216-pre2864-1.dsc > * cd util-vserver-0.30.216-pre2864 > * patch -p1 <../util-vserver_0.30.216-pre2864-1~udo50+1.patch > * dpkg-buildpackage -D -us -uc > > sorry, i've used the util-vserver utilities compiled from source and they > work just as well as those in the debian package (as should be expected), > but i've personally found the start-up scripts in the debian package better > integrate with a debian system than those upstream, so i lean towards the > debian package (thanks micah). > > corey >