Public bug reported: The "overlay" fstype is not mountable from within non-init user namespaces in wily. This is a regression wrt vivid and is causing LXC adt failures:
https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/wily-adt-lxc/lastBuild/ To reproduce, assuming you have an unprivileged LXC container named u1: $ lxc-clone -s u1 u2 $ lxc-start -n u2 --logfile=lxc.out --logpriority=DEBUG Starting u2 will fail, with the following in lxc.out: lxc-start 1438006183.232 ERROR bdev - bdev.c:overlayfs_mount:2253 - Operation not permitted - overlayfs: error mounting /home/ubuntu/.local/share/lxc/u1/rootfs onto /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/lxc options upperdir=/home/ubuntu/.local/share/lxc/u2/delta0,lowerdir=/home/ubuntu/.local/share/lxc/u1/rootfs,workdir=/home/ubuntu/.local/share/lxc/u2/olwork ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: High Assignee: Seth Forshee (sforshee) Status: In Progress ** Tags: bot-stop-nagging -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1478578 Title: "overlay" fs type not mountable in unprivileged containers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1478578/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
