** Description changed: - . + When trying to launch a container with the specific alias "tasks", it + fails to launch. + + $ lxc launch d23ee1f4fd28 tasks + Creating tasks + Starting tasks + error: Error calling 'lxd forkstart tasks /var/lib/lxd/containers /var/log/lxd/tasks/lxc.conf': err='exit status 1' + Try `lxc info --show-log tasks` for more info + Exit 1 + + The reason is that in /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ there is already a file called "tasks". In that directory, any new containers is created as a new directory that has as a name the alias that we have given. + Since "tasks" is reserved", lxc fails to continue. + + Here are the contents of the directory + $ ls -l /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ + total 0 + drwxrwxr-x 5 root 165536 0 Ιούν 10 12:32 c1 + -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Ιούν 10 12:53 cgroup.clone_children + -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Ιούν 10 12:53 cgroup.procs + -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Ιούν 10 12:53 notify_on_release + -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Ιούν 10 12:53 tasks + + Currently, there is potential conflict with "tasks" only as the other filenames are invalid hostnames (contain dots or underscores). + Presumably in the figure there might be more such files. + + Among the solutions, + 1. the container directories in /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ should have something like ".lxd" appended to them so that there is no future conflict.
** Description changed: When trying to launch a container with the specific alias "tasks", it fails to launch. $ lxc launch d23ee1f4fd28 tasks Creating tasks Starting tasks error: Error calling 'lxd forkstart tasks /var/lib/lxd/containers /var/log/lxd/tasks/lxc.conf': err='exit status 1' Try `lxc info --show-log tasks` for more info Exit 1 The reason is that in /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ there is already a file called "tasks". In that directory, any new containers is created as a new directory that has as a name the alias that we have given. - Since "tasks" is reserved", lxc fails to continue. + Since "tasks" is reserved", lxc fails to continue. Here are the contents of the directory $ ls -l /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ total 0 drwxrwxr-x 5 root 165536 0 Ιούν 10 12:32 c1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Ιούν 10 12:53 cgroup.clone_children -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Ιούν 10 12:53 cgroup.procs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Ιούν 10 12:53 notify_on_release -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Ιούν 10 12:53 tasks Currently, there is potential conflict with "tasks" only as the other filenames are invalid hostnames (contain dots or underscores). - Presumably in the figure there might be more such files. + Presumably in the future there might be more such files. Among the solutions, 1. the container directories in /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ should have something like ".lxd" appended to them so that there is no future conflict. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1591124 Title: LXC: Cannot create a container with the specific alias "tasks" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-iscsi/+bug/1591124/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
