Quoting Mark Clarkson (mark.clark...@smorg.co.uk): > Hi, > On a Fedora 15 host (systemd) with lxc 0.7.5, centos container fails to > start: > > ... mountpoint for old rootfs is '/usr/local/lib/lxc/rootfs/mnt' > ... ERROR lxc_conf - Invalid argument - pivot_root syscall failed > ... ERROR lxc_conf - failed to setup pivot root > ... ERROR lxc_conf - failed to set rootfs for 'centos' > > I changed source to chroot instead of pivot_root and container now > starts. > > Any ideas what's wrong with pivot_root and how to fix?
/ (or, even worse, the old / from initramfs) is probably MS_SHARED. You can try doing 'mount --make-rprivate /' in an early init script, and if that doesn't work, also in your initrd's init. -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
