Re: [Vserver] Host and guest compatability

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat 12 Aug 2006 - 15:39:06 BST
Message-ID: <20060812143906.GB17135@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:46:04PM +0100, Jim Wight wrote:
> To what extent do the host and the guest have to be compatible? I'm
> getting this when trying to start a Fedora Core 5 guest on an FC4 host:
>
> # vserver fc5 start
> /usr/bin/env: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /usr/bin/env)
>
> An error occured while executing the vserver startup sequence; when
> there are no other messages, it is very likely that the init-script
> (/etc/rc.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 'fc5'
>
>
> FC5 has glibc 2.4 whereas FC4 has glibc 2.3. Is that really the problem,
> or is the message a side-effect of some other problem?

please provide the output of

 - testme.sh
 - vserver-info - SYSINFO

TIA,
Herbert

> My setup is 2.6.14.3-vs2.0.1 with 0.30.210. The vserver was created by
> dumping an installation on hardware and restoring it to /vservers/fc5
> and then:
>
> replacing dev with one created by 'vserver <vserver> build -m skeleton'
> chroot /vservers/fc5
> cd /etc/init.d
> for i in *; do chkconfig $i off; done
> chkconfig syslog on
> mv halt halt.orig
> ln -s /bin/true halt
> commenting out references to klogd in syslog
>
> which is a procedure that has been successful with FC2 and FC4 guests on
> FC4 hosts.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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