http://www.mail-archive.com/vserver@list.linux-vserver.org/msg09562.html "This means your guest isn't starting any process, and thus the context is gone before the start process is even finished. You could: - change the initstyle to plain (echo plain > /usr/local/etc/vservers/S1.myvserver01/apps/init/style), - set the persistent flag (echo ^38 >> /usr/local/etc/vservers/S1.myvserver01/flags), ..." It seems to be a fault in configuration of the guest. root@squeeze64:/etc/vservers/suse111# echo plain > style root@squeeze64:~# vserver suse111 start Mount failed for selinuxfs on /selinux: No such file or directory root@squeeze64:~# vserver-stat CTX PROC VSZ RSS userTIME sysTIME UPTIME NAME 1099 1 0.9M 384K 0m00s43 0m00s17 0m09s48 suse111 root@squeeze64:~# vserver suse111 enter vlogin: openpty(): No such file or directory root@squeeze64:~# vserver suse111 stop A timeout occured while waiting for the vserver to finish and it will be killed by sending a SIGKILL signal. The following process list might be useful for finding out the reason of this behavior: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5744 1099 suse111 ? Ss 0:00 init [6] 5744 1099 suse111 ? Ss 0:00 init [6] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- init hangs now. I patched vserver.start like explained in http://linux-vserver.org/Installing_an_openSUSE_vserver_guest but it didn't help. I deleted /etc/vservers/suse111/style and the vserver is able to be startet(!) without "style" file! What a surprise! Now I have the same configuration as before with the xid error. A ghost working with vserver? Where does init hang? Ekkard