Aw, I wanted to port to lxd anyway. On May 19, 2016 8:48 PM, "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users >
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