Subject: Re: [vserver] Issue with starting guests on Debian Etch host machine
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:37:10 +0200

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:47:45AM +0930, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have a problem where I'm unable to start guests on a Debian Etch host
> machine. (any host Redhat or Debian)
> 
> Example:
> apps8:/etc/vservers# vserver refimage_debian_etch start
> save_ctxinfo: open("/var/run/vservers/refimage_debian_etch"): No such
> file or directory

does /var/run/vservers/ exist?

> An error occured while executing the vserver startup sequence; when
> there are no other messages, it is very likely that the init-script
> (/etc/init.d/rc 3) failed.
> 
> Common causes are:
> * /etc/rc.d/rc on Fedora Core 1 and RH9 fails always; the 'apt-rpm' build
>   method knows how to deal with this, but on existing installations,
>   appending 'true' to this file will help.
> 
> 
> Failed to start vserver 'refimage_debian_etch'
> 
> apps8:/etc/vservers# vserver refimage_debian_etch stop
> vserver 'refimage_debian_etch' is not running
> ---
> This just hangs but a ctrl-c works
> 
> 
> System details:
> apps8:/etc/vservers# vserver-info
> Versions:
>                    Kernel: 2.6.20.15-HiMem-vs2.2.0
>                    VS-API: 0x00020200
>              util-vserver: 0.30.212; Dec  9 2006, 12:26:51

won't hurt to update tools to 0.30.213

HTH,
Herbert

> Features:
>                        CC: gcc, gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease)
> (Debian 4.1.1-20)
>                       CXX: g++, g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease)
> (Debian 4.1.1-20)
>                  CPPFLAGS: ''
>                    CFLAGS: '-Wall -g  -O2 -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -W
> -funit-at-a-time'
>                  CXXFLAGS: '-g -O2 -ansi -Wall -pedantic -W
> -fmessage-length=0 -funit-at-a-time'
>                build/host: i486-pc-linux-gnu/i486-pc-linux-gnu
>              Use dietlibc: yes
>        Build C++ programs: yes
>        Build C99 programs: yes
>            Available APIs: compat,v11,fscompat,v13,net,v21,oldproc,olduts
>             ext2fs Source: e2fsprogs
>     syscall(2) invocation: alternative
>       vserver(2) syscall#: 273/glibc
> 
> Paths:
>                    prefix: /usr
>         sysconf-Directory: /etc
>             cfg-Directory: /etc/vservers
>          initrd-Directory: $(sysconfdir)/init.d
>        pkgstate-Directory: /var/run/vservers
>           vserver-Rootdir: /var/lib/vservers
> 
> 
> Assumed 'SYSINFO' as no other option given; try '--help' for more
> information.
> ---
> 
> Any ideas ?