On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 05:46:23PM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a Host with Debian Lenny on 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 with > VS-API: 0x00020303 and util-vserver: 0.30.216-pre2772; Dec 13 2008, > 04:56:19 (it's basically all standard Debian installation). I'd suggest to update to a more recent, less buggy kernel and util-vserver version > I now would like to get Ubuntu 10.10 as guest running. For that I > started out with creating a symlink "maverick" in > /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts pointing to "gutsy" (I did this because I > found that in an ubuntu server I installed on a machine directly it was > the same). > The build process went OK until the end: > I: Configuring python-central... > W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times. > I: Configuring procps... > W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times. > W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times. > W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times. > W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times. > I: Base system installed successfully. > I found out about > http://linux-vserver.org/Installing_Ubuntu_8.04_Hardy_as_guest which > basically said that this message can be ignored. > I've then started and entered the vserver and adjusted the sources.list > to point to my apt-proxy: > deb http://apt-proxy:9999/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted universe > multiverse > deb-src http://apt-proxy:9999/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted universe > multiverse > deb http://apt-proxy:9999/ubuntu-security/ maverick main restricted > universe multiverse > deb-src http://apt-proxy:9999/ubuntu-security/ maverick main restricted > universe multiverse > First thing I tried was to set the proper locale: > # dpkg-reconfigure locales > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory > The locales package is installed: > # dpkg -l locales|grep '^ii' > ii locales 2.13+git20100825-1 common files > for locale support you also want to install the actual locale files not just the locale support, and either configure the locale to be the same as the host (en_US.UTF-8) or unset it when entering the guest > I've then tried to install some random package, e.g. "mc" and it worked > but it spilled my screen with lots of warning messages, boiling down to > that there are three packages which can't be properly set up (I've > removed all the perl ocale error messages, it makes it pretty unreadable): > Setting up rsyslog (4.2.0-2ubuntu8) ... > start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket > /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused > invoke-rc.d: initscript rsyslog, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing rsyslog (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Setting up procps (1:3.2.8-9ubuntu3) ... > start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket > /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused > dpkg: error processing procps (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-minimal: > ubuntu-minimal depends on procps; however: > Package procps is not configured yet. > ubuntu-minimal depends on rsyslog; however: > Package rsyslog is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing ubuntu-minimal (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > No apport report written because the error message indicates its a > followup error from a previous failure. > Errors were encountered while processing: > rsyslog > procps > ubuntu-minimal > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > I googled a bit but couldn't distill were to head from there. The > only thing I realized is that Upstart replaced the traditional init.d > event mechanism, but I'm unsure how to proceed from here. I guess my > goal should be "to get upstart" running but I've yet to find some > background about the problem. http://linux-vserver.org/Upstart_issues > Has anyone encountered this or knows any workarounds? > I'm not sure if the inability to configure the locales is > related to this, help on that matter is very much appreciated too. no, not really related, you get that on any distro which has no locale configured/installed when entering the guest with a preset host locale HTH, Herbert > thanks, > - Markus