Honestly, I don't think your issue has to do with the container systemd version.
On my host, archlinux: systemd 227-1 On my container, Fedora 22: sysetemd 219 ------------------------------------- # machinectl login poppy [sudo] password for gabx: Connected to machine poppy. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session. Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.2.2-1-hortensia on an x86_64 (pts/0) poppy login: ---------------------------- It is working fine. On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > On Fri, 16.10.15 14:01, Chris Bell (cwb...@narmos.org) wrote: > >> On 2015-10-16 13:55, Chris Bell wrote: >> >On 2015-10-14 15:58, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> >>On Mon, 05.10.15 12:30, Chris Bell (cwb...@narmos.org) wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi all, >> >>> >> >>>I have an Arch machine with systemd 226, running an Arch container, >> >>>also >> >>>with systemd 226. For whatever reason in 225, `machinectl login` >> >>>stopped >> >>>working correctly, and in 226 `machinectl login` does not work >> >>>properly. It >> >>>attaches to the machine, but does not seem to redirect stdin and >> >>>stdout to >> >>>the machine. When I attempt to use login, the login prompt is never >> >>>printed >> >>>to the command line: >> >> >> >>There were some races when machinectl was too fast and the systemd >> >>inside the container too slow. This should be fixed in systemd git, >> >>specifically commit 40e1f4ea7458a0a80eaf1ef356e52bfe0835412e and >> >>related. >> > >> >I've recompiled from git, and the problem has, indeed, been solved! Thank >> >you! >> >> Sorry, I was wrong. I was running 'machinectl shell' without a machine name, >> and it spawned a shell for my host machine. Guest machine still cannot be >> accessed with 'shell' or 'login' and stdin/out are still redirected to the >> journal. >> >> I compiled commit 7a1e5abbc6e741e5b6995288c607522faa69c8b4 (Master) from the >> github repo. > > You have to upgrade systemd, machined and nspawn in the container as > well as on the host, and ensure you reexec all three of these > components. Otherwise the fix has no effect. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering, Red Hat > _______________________________________________ > systemd-devel mailing list > systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel