Re: [Vserver] Host and guest compatability

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue 15 Aug 2006 - 23:41:41 BST
Message-ID: <20060815224141.GA13613@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:16:18PM +0100, Jim Wight wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 02:33 +0200, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> > Jim Wight wrote:
> > > 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:
> >
> > One of my FC4 hosts is using 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.vs2.0.2.0.rc26.1smp with
> > util-vserver-0.30.210-20.fc4, and it can run FC5 guests without any
> > problems. Any chance you could try with the RPMs? (I'll try to reproduce
> > your issue once I get FC4 installed on the test box).
>
> I've installed util-vserver with the aid of dhozac.repo on an FC4 host
> followed by an FC5 guest. It starts:
>
> # which vserver
> /usr/sbin/vserver
> # vserver gast start
> Bringing up loopback interface: Device lo does not seem to be present,
> delaying initialization.
> [FAILED]
> Starting system logger: [ OK ]
> Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]
> Mounting other filesystems: [ OK ]
>
> When I switch to using the util-vserver-0.30.210 I built I get my
> problem back:
>
> # which vserver
> /addon/local/util-vserver/current/sbin/vserver
> # echo "/addon/local/util-vserver/0.30.210/lib/util-vserver/vshelper" >/proc/sys/kernel/vshelper
> # vserver gast start
> /usr/bin/env: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /usr/bin/env)
>
> However, since doing that I have made a discovery. If I change the line
>
> _ENV="/usr/bin/env"
>
> to
>
> _ENV="/bin/env"
>
> in util-vserver-vars then my original FC5 guest starts fine using my
> build of util-vserver.
>
> /usr/bin/env is a symbolic link to ../../bin/env.

that sounds very interesting ... and is probably the
reason for this bug showing up, thanks for figuring
that out, hope we figure what the actual cause is ...

tx,
Herbert

> Jim
>
>
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