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and subject line Bug#539352: fixed in sysvinit 3.15-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #539352,
regarding Please mount cgroup automatically
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539352: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539352
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: lxc
Version: 1:1.0.6-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch
cgroups is very critical to LXC. And even so it has delegated the task
to others (systemd and libvirt).
There are many users who don't use either. Please handle cgroup mounts
in lxc's init script.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lxc depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.21
ii libapparmor1 2.9.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-12
ii libcap2 1:2.24-6
ii libseccomp2 2.1.1-1
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
ii multiarch-support 2.19-12
ii python3 3.4.2-1
Versions of packages lxc recommends:
ii debootstrap 1.0.64
ii openssl 1.0.1j-1
ii rsync 3.1.1-2+b1
Versions of packages lxc suggests:
pn lua5.2 <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/lxc changed:
sysconfdir="/etc"
bindir="/usr/bin"
localstatedir="/var"
mount_cgroups="yes"
cgroups="cpuset cpu cpuacct devices freezer net_cls blkio perf_event"
! grep -qs cgroup_enable=memory /proc/cmdline || cgroups="$cgroups memory"
BOOTGROUPS="onboot,"
SHUTDOWNDELAY=5
OPTIONS=
STOPOPTS="-a -s"
test ! -r /lib/lsb/init-functions ||
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
test ! -r "$sysconfdir"/sysconfig/lxc ||
. "$sysconfdir"/sysconfig/lxc
[ -x "$bindir"/lxc-autostart ] || exit 1
systemd_running()
{
if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] ; then
return 0
fi
return 1
}
mount_cgroups()
{
if ! systemd_running
then
mount -t tmpfs cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup || return 1
for M in $cgroups; do
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/$M || return 1
mount -t cgroup -o rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,$M "cgroup_${M}"
"/sys/fs/cgroup/${M}" || return 1
done
else
log_warning_msg "Systemd running, skipping cgroup mount."
fi
}
umount_cgroups()
{
if ! systemd_running
then
for M in $cgroups; do
umount "cgroup_${M}"
rmdir /sys/fs/cgroup/$M
done
umount cgroup_root
else
log_warning_msg "Systemd running, skipping cgroup mount."
fi
}
check_mount_cgroup_options() {
if ! [ "$mount_cgroups" = "yes" ]; then
return 1
else
return 0
fi
}
wait_for_bridge()
{
[ -f "$sysconfdir"/lxc/default.conf ] || { return 0; }
which ifconfig >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
cmd="ifconfig -a"
else
which ip >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
cmd="ip link list"
fi
fi
[ -n cmd ] || { return 0; }
BRNAME=`grep '^[ ]*lxc.network.link' "$sysconfdir"/lxc/default.conf |
sed 's/^.*=[ ]*//'`
if [ -z "$BRNAME" ]; then
return 0
fi
for try in `seq 1 30`; do
eval $cmd |grep "^$BRNAME" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
return
fi
sleep 1
done
}
mkdir -p /var/lock/subsys
case "$1" in
start)
if check_mount_cgroup_options; then
if ! mount_cgroups; then
log_warning_msg "Cannot mount cgroups layout"
exit 1;
fi
fi
[ ! -f "$localstatedir"/lock/subsys/lxc ] || { exit 0; }
if [ -n "$BOOTGROUPS" ]
then
BOOTGROUPS="-g $BOOTGROUPS"
fi
# Start containers
wait_for_bridge
# Start autoboot containers first then the NULL group "onboot,".
log_daemon_msg "Starting LXC autoboot containers: "
"$bindir"/lxc-autostart $OPTIONS $BOOTGROUPS
touch "$localstatedir"/lock/subsys/lxc
;;
stop)
if [ -n "$SHUTDOWNDELAY" ]
then
SHUTDOWNDELAY="-t $SHUTDOWNDELAY"
fi
if check_mount_cgroup_options; then
umount_cgroups;
fi
# The stop is serialized and can take excessive time. We need to avoid
# delaying the system shutdown / reboot as much as we can since it's not
# parallelized... Even 5 second timout may be too long.
log_daemon_msg "Stopping LXC containers: "
"$bindir"/lxc-autostart $STOPOPTS $SHUTDOWNDELAY
rm -f "$localstatedir"/lock/subsys/lxc
;;
restart|reload|force-reload)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}"
exit 2
esac
exit $?
/etc/lxc/default.conf changed:
lxc.network.type = veth
lxc.network.flags = up
lxc.network.link = lxcbr0
lxc.cgroup.cpuset.cpus = 0,1
lxc.cgroup.cpu.shares = 1234
lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 2147483648
lxc.cgroup.memory.soft_limit_in_bytes = 1073741824
-- no debconf information
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> mount_cgroups="yes"
>
> # For cgroups
> cgroups="cpuset cpu cpuacct devices freezer net_cls blkio perf_event"
> ! grep -qs cgroup_enable=memory /proc/cmdline || cgroups="$cgroups memory"
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>
>
>
>
> systemd_running()
> {
> if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] ; then
> return 0
> fi
> return 1
> }
>
> mount_cgroups()
> {
> if ! systemd_running
> then
> mount -t tmpfs cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup || return 1
> for M in $cgroups; do
> mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/$M || return 1
> mount -t cgroup -o rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,$M
> "cgroup_${M}" "/sys/fs/cgroup/${M}" || return 1
> done
> else
> log_warning_msg "Systemd running, skipping cgroup mount."
> fi
>
> }
>
> umount_cgroups()
> {
> if ! systemd_running
> then
> for M in $cgroups; do
> umount "cgroup_${M}"
> rmdir /sys/fs/cgroup/$M
> done
> umount cgroup_root
> else
> log_warning_msg "Systemd running, skipping cgroup mount."
> fi
> }
>
> check_mount_cgroup_options() {
> if ! [ "$mount_cgroups" = "yes" ]; then
> return 1
> else
> return 0
> fi
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> if check_mount_cgroup_options; then
> if ! mount_cgroups; then
> log_warning_msg "Cannot mount cgroups layout"
> exit 1;
> fi
> fi
>
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> fi
>
> if check_mount_cgroup_options; then
> umount_cgroups;
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: sysvinit
Source-Version: 3.15-2
Done: Mark Hindley <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sysvinit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mark Hindley <[email protected]> (supplier of updated sysvinit package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:29:46 +0100
Source: sysvinit
Architecture: source
Version: 3.15-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian sysvinit maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Mark Hindley <[email protected]>
Closes: 435287 539352 688412 1108969
Changes:
sysvinit (3.15-2) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* Update inittab on new installations to assume 8bit clean environment.
(Closes: #435287)
* Emphasise that /etc/fstab overrides /etc/default/tmpfs. (Closes: #688412)
* init-d-script:
- Support TYPE=oneshot. (Closes: #1108969)
- comply with style guidelines.
* Add rcS option EXTRAKERNELFS and framework to support mounting
additional kernel filesystems. Currently supported options are debugfs
and cgroupfs2. (Closes: #539352)
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