On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, thanks. I'll port to lxd at some point. Until then, I'll add a retry > loop. > > You shouldn't need to switch to lxd JUST to use a download template (or images, in lxd term). Simply "lxc-create -t download ..."
But yeah, your temporary-solution of retry loop should also work for the purpose of 'work around a failed package download' -- Fajar > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> The first time, it failed with > >> W: Couldn't download package insserv (ver 1.14.0-5ubuntu3 arch amd64) > >> I: Retrieving iproute2 4.3.0-1ubuntu3 > >> W: Couldn't download package iproute2 (ver 4.3.0-1ubuntu3 arch amd64) > >> ... > >> E: Couldn't download packages: iproute2 insserv > >> Delete subvolume (no-commit): '/var/cache/lxc/xenial/partial-amd64' > >> lxc-create: lxccontainer.c: create_run_template: 1290 container > >> creation template for rbb-ubu1604-1-ubu1604 failed > >> > > > >> Either way, should lxc-create be so willing to abort on package > >> download failure, or should it sleep and retry a bit somehow? > > > > > > > > IMHO that behavior is correct. The ubuntu template uses debootstrap, so > > whatever you're seing is debootstrap's response. > > > > I suggest you use the download template instead (-t download), which > would > > basically get a tar file with preconfigured packages. It would help if > your > > problem was on 'creating new connection phase' (which sometimes would > happen > > if say ... your ISP employs a transparent http cache) or 'partial > > inconsistent mirror' (since you'd only be getting a few files), plus > it'd be > > much faster (no need for package install and configure phase after > download) > > > > -- > > Fajar > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lxc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users >
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