Re: [vserver] linux vserver stops on exit

From: Harald Lapp <harald.lapp_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri 05 Nov 2010 - 17:03:43 GMT
Message-ID: <AANLkTimZQb7cvsuaGyuUvOYDDb55+7kMN7BAtM_oGS-1@mail.gmail.com>

2010/11/5 Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>:
> Harald Lapp wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> i'm new to linux vserver. i've just managed to set up vserver on an
>> ubuntu lucid host, the guest is lucid, too. with the help of some
>> tutorials i found at linux-vserver.org, i was able to workaround
>> almost all problems. but there are still some strange things, i don't
>> really understand:
>
> That's probably the hardest distribution to use. You might want to
> look at Debian...
>

yeah, i read so ... but i personally like ubuntu server very much, so
i thought i give it a try.

>> i usually enter the vserver using "vserver ... enter". after doing my
>> work i type "exit" to get back to the host. now sometimes (not
>> always!) the vserver seems to stop. running vserver-stat for example
>> doesn't show it anylonger, or when i try to re-enter, it says, that
>> the vserver is not running. i was unable to figure out, why it stops
>> because this won't happen, when some other user is still connected to
>> the vserver. and i don't get any error messages or so. is there
>> anything i can try to figure out, what's going on?
>
> It sounds like you stopped all the processes running in the guest,
> thus causing the guest to exit when there is nothing there anymore.

i understand, so it's expected behaviour, that the guest exists, when
no processes are running in the guest?

>
>> the second strange thing is: i've installed mysql in the vserver and
>> everything seems to work just fine. i can start and stop it and it's
>> listening on the IP i assigned to the vserver (and bound mysql to) --
>> at least i can telnet to it and mysql answers. however: i don't "see"
>> it, when i run "ps ax" in the vserver ... what's going on, i wonder?
>
> Are you running grsec or something similar? What kernel?

mmm ... i don't have currently access to the server, i have to look
next week. but i don't think, that grsec is installed. but apparmor
is. could this be a problem?

the kernel is 2.6.32

thanks!

harald
Received on Fri Nov 5 17:04:41 2010

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