On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 02:20:59PM -0800, Forest wrote:
> Yesterday, I created an unprivileged debian jessie container using the
> lxc-provided template, like so:
>
> lxc-create -t download -n debbox -- -d debian -r jessie -a amd64
>
> I replaced systemd with sysvinit-core, since systemd was causing endless
> hangs whenever I installed or upgraded packages. The container then ran
> properly, but lxc-stop would just hang forever. Running lxc-stop -t 10
> worked after the timeout expired, producing this error message:
>
> commands_utils.c: lxc_cmd_sock_rcv_state: 70 Resource temporarily
> unavailable - Failed to receive message
>
> Apparently init was failing to respond appropriately to lxc's signal. I
> fixed it by replacing the default pf entry in /etc/inittab (wich pointed to
> a nonexistent /etc/init.d/powerfai script) with this:
>
> pf::powerwait:/sbin/halt
>
> All that troubleshooting (including the systemd part) took hours. Could
> this be fixed in lxc's debian jessie template, so others don't have to deal
> with it in the future?
Absolutely. If you're interested in uploading the patch yourself, the fix
presumably would look something like a sed in
https://github.com/lxc/lxc-templates/blob/master/templates/lxc-debian.in .
-serge
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