Devuan bug report logs - #426
lxc: cannot start Fedora30 and Debian Stretch in LXC containers

Package: cgroupfs-mount; Maintainer for cgroupfs-mount is Tanya <tanyadegurechaff@waifu.club>; Source for cgroupfs-mount is src:cgroupfs-mount.

Reported by: Ryutaroh Matsumoto <ryutaroh@ict.e.titech.ac.jp>

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:03:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: debian

Fixed in version 1.4+devuan1

Done: dak@devuan.org

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/939435

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Subject: Re: lxc: cannot start Fedora30 and Debian Stretch in LXC containers
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Hi Mark,

> A few other ideas to try: obviously the lxc container is looking for the host
> /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd which doesn't exist. Does creating it manually help?
> Does installing cgmanager help (I am not sure if that will create and manage
> /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd)?

None of them worked.
My Devuan is running on qemu.
I can upload the image so that you can try on your computer.

Best regards,
Ryutaroh

From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Subject: Re: lxc: cannot start Fedora30 and Debian Stretch in LXC containers
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:48:38 +0100

> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 04:47:13AM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.
>> I was able to use Gentoo in the LXC container on Devuan.
>> So this is not a general problem of LXC.
>> It is specific to Devuan hosts and systemd containers.
> 
> Helpful to know.
> 
>> Booting with apparmor=0 did not help.
>> I selected openrc. Replacing with sysv-rc did not help.
> 
> Thanks for trying.
> 
>> I wonder what is the cgroup mounts without cgroupfs-mount, so
>> I tried apt-get purge cgroupfs-mount, and got the following.
>> I have no idea how to remove cgroupfs-mount from Devuan 3:
> 
> See my answer to #428.
> 
>> Stating that Devuan LXC does not support distros with systemd
>> and closing this but might be a good idea...
> 
> Yes, it might come to that. However, I would like to exhaust other possibilities
> first.
> 
> A few other ideas to try: obviously the lxc container is looking for the host
> /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd which doesn't exist. Does creating it manually help?
> Does installing cgmanager help (I am not sure if that will create and manage
> /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd)?
> 
> Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #426 lxc: cannot start Fedora30 and Debian Stretch in LXC containers

Devuan bug report logs - #426
lxc: cannot start Fedora30 and Debian Stretch in LXC containers