My kernel was stuck on 4.4. I had to manually update /boot/grub/grub.cfg with 'sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' to get the 4.15 kernel to be available in grub to boot from. After that, and booting from 4.15 kernel, I can get bash into focal lxd container. Marking invalid.
** Changed in: lxc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lxc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1901611 Title: can't launch focal container on bionic (TIOCGPTPEER) Status in lxc package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I cannot get a bash shell into a focal container on my bionic host. stdout shows TIOCGPTPEER unavailable message. `lxc ls` shows it is running, and I can ping it's IP address. $ lxc exec focal-NOTREAL -- bash Error: TIOCGPTPEER required but not available $ uname -a Linux timbre 4.4.0-164-generic #192-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 13 12:02:50 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ uname -a Linux timbre 4.4.0-164-generic #192-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 13 12:02:50 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lxc config show focal-NOTREAL architecture: x86_64 config: image.architecture: amd64 image.description: ubuntu 20.04 LTS amd64 (release) (20201014) image.label: release image.os: ubuntu image.release: focal image.serial: "20201014" image.type: squashfs image.version: "20.04" volatile.base_image: e81943d409153d0962e3855b7d9e6c60640571529f47b16eec2da5b4f2ad77ff volatile.eth0.host_name: veth0ad5a93b volatile.eth0.hwaddr: 00:16:3e:72:ed:8d volatile.idmap.base: "0" volatile.idmap.current: '[{"Isuid":true,"Isgid":false,"Hostid":1000000,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":1000000000},{"Isuid":false,"Isgid":true,"Hostid":1000000,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":1000000000}]' volatile.idmap.next: '[{"Isuid":true,"Isgid":false,"Hostid":1000000,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":1000000000},{"Isuid":false,"Isgid":true,"Hostid":1000000,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":1000000000}]' volatile.last_state.idmap: '[{"Isuid":true,"Isgid":false,"Hostid":1000000,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":1000000000},{"Isuid":false,"Isgid":true,"Hostid":1000000,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":1000000000}]' volatile.last_state.power: RUNNING devices: {} ephemeral: false profiles: - default stateful: false description: "" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1901611/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp