Re: [vserver] OpenSuSE 11.3 Guest on Debian Host

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu 03 Sep 2009 - 13:06:25 BST
Message-ID: <20090903120625.GA6485@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:26:16AM +0200, Marc Brechbuehl wrote:
> Hi

> I'm trying to install a OpenSuSE 11.3 System on a Debian lenny hostsystem.

> I installed SuSE with yum as explained here:
> http://blog.bitfire.at/2008/01/how-to-install-opensuse-103-i586-in.html

> Then I changed the vserver.start and init Script as explained in the
> vserver Wiki (http://wiki.linux-vserver.org/SuseVserverHowTo#initscripts)

> When I try to start the vserver I'm getting the error

sounds like an util-vserver issue ...

> -----------
> # vserver vs-suse11 start
> Usage: save_ctxinfo <VSERVER_DIR> <cmd> <args>*
>
> 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 S) 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 'vs-suse11'
> -----------

> The vserver itself works, as I'm already running two Debian guest
> systems.

kernel/patch and util-vserver version?

> Does someone has an idea or a solution?

usually replacing the broken util-vserver packages
from debian with a fresh install (built from source)
solves 90% of all (debian) issues, the remaining
10% are solved by replacing the broken kernels :)

HTH,
Herbert

> Thanks!
>
> Marc.
Received on Thu Sep 3 13:06:50 2009

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