Subject: Re: [vserver] vserver won't start properly
From: Michael <michael.auckland@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:22:55 +1300
Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:22:55 +1300
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:10 AM, andy baxter <
andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk> 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
>
> This is 'vserver alien status' on the host:
>
> whale:/etc/aide# vserver alien status
> Vserver 'alien' is running at context '40003'
> Number of processes:  4
> Uptime:               00:14
>
> The other thing I find strange is that when I log into alien using either
> 'vserver enter 'or ssh (which was working yesterday but not today), the
> hostname in the terminal is reported as 'whale'.
>
> whale:/etc/aide# vserver alien enter
> root@whale:/# hostname
> whale
> root@whale:/# cat /etc/hostname
> alien
>
> Can anyone help with this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> andy baxter
>

1.!  fsck  on root nad guest filesystem for errors.

cat /etc/vservers/alien/name  ?
put alien there.

what about your old copy? Is it working fine?

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Michael




On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:10 AM, andy baxter <andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk> 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

This is 'vserver alien status' on the host:

whale:/etc/aide# vserver alien status
Vserver 'alien' is running at context '40003'
Number of processes:  4
Uptime:               00:14

The other thing I find strange is that when I log into alien using either 'vserver enter 'or ssh (which was working yesterday but not today), the hostname in the terminal is reported as 'whale'.

whale:/etc/aide# vserver alien enter
root@whale:/# hostname
whale
root@whale:/# cat /etc/hostname
alien

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,

andy baxter

1.!  fsck  on root nad guest filesystem for errors.
 
cat /etc/vservers/alien/name  ? 
put alien there.

what about your old copy? Is it working fine?

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Michael