On 09/12/10 17:10, andy baxter wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up a couple of vservers on my debian stable machine, both > running ubuntu lucid. The first one, dolphin, has been running nicely > for a while. I built a copy of it (using the rsync method to 'vserver > build'), and changed the hostname to make another vserver, alien. > Yesterday I managed to get alien to start up, and it was working fine > with apache / php / mysql running on it and the network being routed > on the host machine. Today there was a power interruption and now it > won't start up - when I do 'vserver alien start', it boots up to a > certain point with a few processes running, but most of the services > don't start up. > > This is 'ps ax' on the vserver: > > root@whale:/# ps ax > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 1 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/init > 3876 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh -e /proc/self/fd/9 > 3897 ? S 0:00 initctl emit local-filesystems > 3915 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon --system --fork > 3973 ? R+ 0:00 login > 4006 pts/2 Ss 0:00 /bin/bash -login > 4019 pts/2 R+ 0:00 ps ax Another bit of info that may be relevant - initctl is stopping on 'local-filesystems' in the ps listing - I checked which upstart scripts in /etc/init refer to that and this is the result: root@whale:/etc/init# grep local-filesystems * dbus.conf:start on local-filesystems mountall.conf:emits local-filesystems mountall.conf.dpkg-dist:emits local-filesystems mysql.conf: and local-filesystems networking.conf:start on (local-filesystems networking.conf~:start on (local-filesystems vserver.conf: initctl emit local-filesystems