From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Wed 27 Apr 2005 - 23:26:40 BST
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:15:04AM +0200, Gilles wrote:
> Hello.
>
> > > I've started (and stopped) the vserver *once*, now I can't start it
> > > anymore, the error is as before:
> > > -----
> > > vcontext: vc_create_context(): File exists
> >
> > unusual .. but I would conclude that 'somehow' your
> > vserver does something with the init on your host
> > so I would suggest to look for things like ...
> >
> > - devices inside the vserver which should not be there
> > - pipes/fifos leading out of the vserver
>
> # ls -al /var/lib/vservers/phony/dev
> total 1
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 264 Apr 26 11:46 .
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 504 Apr 26 11:46 ..
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 Apr 20 18:46 full
> prw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 27 18:54 initctl
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 20 18:46 null
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 Apr 20 18:46 ptmx
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Apr 20 18:46 pts
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 8 Apr 20 18:46 random
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Apr 20 18:46 tty
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Apr 27 18:53 urandom
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Apr 20 18:46 zero
>
> Something wrong with that?
>
> Indeed there is one pipe; should it be there or not?
> How does one know whether it leads to some forbidden place?
well, just for a test, I'd remove the initctl ...
it should be auto created inside the vserver by init
> > 99% of such strange issues are caused by bad vserver
> > guest setups ...
>
> The vserver was built with the debootstrap method; after which
> I deleted quite some supposedly not indispensable packages.
> I'm in fact trying to get the cleanest possible setup so that
> I can use "vserver-copy" to clone it afterwards.
> [There used to be a link, somewhere on the vserver pages, to a
> repository of ready-to-use vservers but it was a dangling link.
> It would be interesting (?) to have such a repository with
> general-purpose setups...]
well, they come and go, probably because of the amount
of data transferred for a single image ...
best,
Herbert
> Best regards,
> Gilles
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