Source: lxc Version: 1:2.0.7-1 Severity: normal # lxc-create -n web1 --template download [...] Distribution: debian Release: stretch Architecture: amd64
Downloading the image index Downloading the rootfs Downloading the metadata mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/cache/lxc//download/debian/stretch’: Permission denied lxc-create: lxccontainer.c: create_run_template: 1297 container creation template for web1 failed lxc-create: tools/lxc_create.c: main: 318 Error creating container web1 I made a lucky guess and did the following: # chown 820896:820896 /var/cache/lxc/download/debian (820896 is the uid / gid map for root) Now the mkdir etc. succeeded. Apparently changing to the unprivileged IDs happens too early, so that the uid 0 owned /var/cache/lxc/download/debian/ can't be written to. Please fix it so that the chown is not required. Thanks, Paul -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-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 Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lxc depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.47 ii libapparmor1 2.11.0-2 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libcap2 1:2.24-8 ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-3 ii liblxc1 1:2.0.7-1 ii libseccomp2 2.3.1-2.1 ii libselinux1 2.6-3 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii python3-lxc 1:2.0.7-1 ii python3:amd64 3.5.3-1 Versions of packages lxc recommends: ii bridge-utils 1.5-9 ii debootstrap 1.0.88 ii dirmngr 1.1.1-5 pn dnsmasq-base <none> ii gnupg 1.4.18-7+deb8u3 ii iptables 1.4.21-2+b1 ii libpam-cgfs 2.0.6-1 ii lxcfs 2.0.6-1 ii openssl 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6 ii rsync 3.1.2-1 ii uidmap 1:4.2-3+deb8u1 Versions of packages lxc suggests: pn apparmor <none> pn btrfs-tools <none> ii lvm2 2.02.168-1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/lxc/default.conf changed: lxc.network.type = veth lxc.network.link = lxcbr0 lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx lxc.id_map = u 0 820896 65536 lxc.id_map = g 0 820896 65536 -- no debconf information