Quoting Johannes Graumann (johannes_graum...@web.de): > On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 14:36:16 Serge Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Johannes Graumann (johannes_graum...@web.de): > > > Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha > > > > > > > > <l...@fajar.net> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Johannes Graumann > > > >> > > > >> <johannes_graum...@web.de> wrote: > > > >>> On the container "/var/lib/rpm is now empty > > > >> > > > >> That is not right. It might be the source of your problem. Try > > > >> > > > >> yum --installroot=/some/path/of/your/choice groupinstall base > > > >> > > > >> ... and verify whether /var/lib/rpm under that path has some files (it > > > >> should). Just to check whether the problem is in your template, or in > > > >> your version of yum. > > > > > > > > I think I know what happens. > > > > > > > > Debian/Ubuntu's version of yum stores rpm database in /root/.rpm (when > > > > run as root). RHEL/Centos expects the db to be on /var/lib/rpm. Thus > > > > the problem. > > > > > > > > You can simply (in chroot or container) move all content in /root/.rpm > > > > to /var/lib/rpm, and the run "rpm --rebuilddb" . > > > > > > > > Strangely enough, eventhough your install process installs > > > > "filesystem" as a dependency, yum won't complain much if you can run > > > > "yum erase filesystem" inside the chroot environment :P. Not > > > > recommended though. > > > > > > For the benefit of others (the mailing list refused my email replies in > > > much of this conversation): this problem is solved by doing the > > > following as root on the container: > > > > > > PROMPT> cp -r /root/.rpmdb/* /var/lib/rpm/ > > > PROMPT> rpm --define '_dbapi 3' --rebuilddb > > > > Thanks for the info, Johannes. > > > > Would you be interested in creating a proper > > /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-centos template (which would check for this > > condition)? You said you used an openvz template to start right? > > I used the lxc-fedora template that comes with debian(testing) ... I will try > to put this check in there and report back ... there are some more > configuration issues that I am currently resolving manually after > installation, > so this may take some time ...
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