Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting John (j...@neutrondawn.com): Greetings LXC, im having problems getting my container operational on centos. cgconfig and cgred are both running. the error is as follows during startup attempts: lxc-start 1381364626.764 DEBUGlxc_cgroup - cgroup_path_get: called for subsys

Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread John
I am in fact able to write to the file. its initial state is empty. On 2013-10-10 09:24, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting John (j...@neutrondawn.com): Greetings LXC, im having problems getting my container operational on centos. cgconfig and cgred are both running. the error is as follows

Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting John (j...@neutrondawn.com): I am in fact able to write to the file. its initial state is empty. The initial state of which file is empty - /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/cpuset.cpus, or /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/GE/cpuset.cpus? If the former, then that's the problem. That file should have been

Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread John
Serge, Sorry for the confusion, both files have been created and are in fact empty. This is after having removed any configuration constraint on processors in GE.conf. On 2013-10-10 10:03, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting John (j...@neutrondawn.com): I am in fact able to write to the file. its

Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread Dwight Engen
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:03:36 -0500 Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com wrote: Quoting John (j...@neutrondawn.com): I am in fact able to write to the file. its initial state is empty. The initial state of which file is empty - /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/cpuset.cpus, or

Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread Guido Jäkel
On 2013-10-10 17:44, Dwight Engen wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:03:36 -0500 Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com wrote: John, are you perhaps running on an older kernel that doesn't have clone_children? lxc relies on this to propagate values down the heirarchy. Dear Serge, Dear Jon On my

Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread Guido Jäkel
On 2013-10-10 18:34, John wrote: Guido, Serge Thank you for your insight. the parent, /cgroup/cpuset/lxc, has cpuset.cpus however it hasnt been initialized to any number. my hypothesis is /cgroup/cpuset/lxc/GE/cpuset.cpus therefore cannot be set as its parent hasnt been initialized.

Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread John
Guido, Alas, this appears to be the problem. /cgroups/cgroup.clone_children does not exist. Thanks for the assistance, ill likely begin testing with a new kernel. A workaround for this problem in RHEL/Centos that sidesteps the kernel recompile issue is to permit containers to have access to

Re: [Lxc-users] cgroups permission problem

2013-10-10 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting John (j...@neutrondawn.com): Guido, Alas, this appears to be the problem. /cgroups/cgroup.clone_children does not exist. Thanks for the assistance, ill likely begin testing with a new kernel. A workaround for this problem in RHEL/Centos that sidesteps the kernel recompile