Subject: Re: [vserver] Issue with starting guests on Debian Etch host machine
From: Mike O'Connor <vserver@pineview.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:29:34 +0930

Hi Herbert

Yes it does

apps8:/# ls -lah /var/run/vservers
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 Jul 27 01:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 460 Jul 27 01:08 ..
apps8:/#

Cheers
Mike

Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 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 ?
>>