Hello. > > I've started (and stopped) the vserver *once*, now I can't start it > > anymore, the error is as before: > > ----- > > vcontext: vc_create_context(): File exists > > unusual .. but I would conclude that 'somehow' your > vserver does something with the init on your host > so I would suggest to look for things like ... > > - devices inside the vserver which should not be there > - pipes/fifos leading out of the vserver
# ls -al /var/lib/vservers/phony/dev total 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 264 Apr 26 11:46 . drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 504 Apr 26 11:46 .. crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 Apr 20 18:46 full prw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 27 18:54 initctl crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 20 18:46 null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 Apr 20 18:46 ptmx drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Apr 20 18:46 pts crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 8 Apr 20 18:46 random crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Apr 20 18:46 tty crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Apr 27 18:53 urandom crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Apr 20 18:46 zero Something wrong with that? Indeed there is one pipe; should it be there or not? How does one know whether it leads to some forbidden place? > 99% of such strange issues are caused by bad vserver > guest setups ... The vserver was built with the debootstrap method; after which I deleted quite some supposedly not indispensable packages. I'm in fact trying to get the cleanest possible setup so that I can use "vserver-copy" to clone it afterwards. [There used to be a link, somewhere on the vserver pages, to a repository of ready-to-use vservers but it was a dangling link. It would be interesting (?) to have such a repository with general-purpose setups...] Best regards, Gilles _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
