On 2014-01-21 13:48, Tor Rune Skoglund wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> have a new installation here, and after reboots, the vservers will not
> start - with the following error:
>
> The following problem(s) were encountered while verifying vshelper
> functionality:
> * The vshelper state-directory '/var/run/vshelper' does not exist;
> since
> it is created by 'make install', this indicates a serious problem with
> your util-vserver installatio
> [...]
>
> ... Which is correct. /var/run is a link to /run, which is again
> mounted
> on tmpfs, so no-one has created /var/run/vshelper on boot.
>
> The easiest one-liner I found was simply to re-emerge util-vserver on
> every reboot, but is there an "official", longer-term solution? I am
> using util-vserver 0.30.216_pre3038, which is ~ masked, but presumably
> needed for newer kernels.
>
> (Btw, this kind of illustrates the degrading state of vserver on Gentoo
> atm, which cannot be installed without patches or manual interception
> and googling.... which would scare off new users...)
This is arguably a distro issue rather than vserver issue. Ask
your distro package maintainer to include a suitable init script?
As for scaring off new users, you aren't seriously saying
that in the context of Gentoo's "build the entire distro
from source at install time" attitude, are you?
Gordan
Received on Tue Jan 21 14:04:34 2014