Aha! It was an unprivileged container (I used to get the same error messages with privileged and unprivileged containers), and it turns out in one of my purge - install cycles I forgot to add "$USER veth lxcbr0 2" to `/etc/lxc/lxc-usernet`. I did that (it's now the only line there after the first commented title line), and now I can start the container! (I rechecked: privileged containers also start.)
In both cases, however, the network is unreachable from within the container, as evident by the response `connect: Network is unreachable` to my pinging my host and/or router. I guess that's not surprising considerng that `lxc-net` still returns all of these error messages. However, that's truly a separate issue now, so it's worth summing up that the uncommented line in `/etc/default/lxc-net` (which was installed that way, for some reason) was the cause of this bug on my machine. I'm not sure what to do regarding the new issue (I haven't googled about it yet), so I'll include what you've asked for just in case you spot an easy fix. (BTW, I don't know if this belongs on this medium, but you have my sincere thanks for your help. It was invaluable.) server@srv-Ub1404:~$ sudo brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces lxcbr0 8000.fedfa607a667 no vethA4H3U6 server@srv-Ub1404:~$ ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:fc:8e:95:ba inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:fcff:fe8e:95ba/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:7417201 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1758168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:10608089410 (10.6 GB) TX bytes:1646751692 (1.6 GB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2867 (2.8 KB) TX bytes:2867 (2.8 KB) lxcbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr fe:df:a6:07:a6:67 inet addr:10.0.3.1 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::98d6:4cff:fe27:2ea2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:53 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:19844 (19.8 KB) TX bytes:7380 (7.3 KB) vethA4H3U6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr fe:df:a6:07:a6:67 inet6 addr: fe80::fcdf:a6ff:fe07:a667/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:13986 (13.9 KB) TX bytes:1706 (1.7 KB) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1367495 Title: Bridge still not created if bind9 is on To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1367495/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs