From: Matthew Nuzum (matt_at_followers.net)
Date: Wed 03 Sep 2003 - 14:59:46 BST
Hey guys, I’m having a problem.
I’m installing a new vserver and it’s on a computer that has special
hardware and often times special jobs.  I’m using RedHat 8 as my host and I’
ve used Alexey Lyashkov’s script for building a redhat kernel rpm.
At first, things were really not working… then I realized I hadn’t rebooted
with the new kernel.  ;-)  So, the things worked better after that.  I was
able to build a new vserver ok, but now I can’t start it.  When I try, I get
this error:
    Server testserver is not running
    Can't set the ipv4 root (Bad address)
I checked dmesg and found this message in the boot log:
    s_context_status_write: can't open file .vservers!
Here’s what I’ve installed:
    vserver-admin-0.22-1
    kernel-2.4.18-27.7.vserver
    vserver-0.22-1
    linuxconf-1.31-1.i386.rpm
    linuxconf-gui-1.31-1.i386.rpm
    linuxconf-lib-1.31-1.i386.rpm
    linuxconf-util-1.31-1.i386.rpm
    linuxconf-X-1.31-1.i386.rpm
    gnome-linuxconf-0.65-1.i386.rpm
My config for the “testserver” vserver looks like:
# egrep -v "^\W*#" testserver.conf
if [ "" = "" ]; then
        PROFILE=prod
fi
case $PROFILE in
prod)
        IPROOT="eth0:192.168.0.10/255.255.255.0"
        IPROOTDEV="eth0"
        S_HOSTNAME=www.somewhere
        ;;
backup)
        IPROOT=""
        IPROOTDEV=eth0
        S_HOSTNAME=
        ;;
esac
ONBOOT=yes
S_DOMAINNAME=
S_NICE=
S_FLAGS="lock nproc"
ULIMIT="-H -u 1000"
S_CAPS=""
I’ve recompiled the src rpm for the vserver tools so that it should match
what’s on my system.  When I do
    chbind --ip 192.168.0.10 sleep 1
I get:
    Can't set the ipv4 root (Bad address)
I’m not sure what this means… Any help is greatly appreciated.  By the way,
I have several other vserver’s running fine… This is the only one I’ve done
using the “rebuilding a redhat kernel” process.  (which I’m doing to ease
the process of installing other software)
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