Devuan bug report logs - #445
lxc-start and lxc-execute cause segfault started by non-root without libpam-cgfs

Package: lxc; Maintainer for lxc is (unknown); Source for lxc is src:lxc.

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

Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 01:33:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: debian

Found in version 1:3.1.0+really3.0.3-8

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 09:47:04AM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> > Does your unprivileged user have write access to cgroups? That appears to be a
> > common cause of this from a quick internet search.
> 
> The cause was that I did not install libpam-cgfs package.
> You are welcome to close this, though this seems a minor bug to me.
> I have no idea if this is an upstream issue.

I am glad you found the cause.

libpam-cgfs is a Recommends for lxc. If you feel this should be a Depends then
please report to Debian BTS who package lxc. I agree that if an absent
recommends is not handled gracefully, that is a bug.

Thanks.

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #445 lxc-start and lxc-execute cause segfault started by non-root without libpam-cgfs

Devuan bug report logs - #445
lxc-start and lxc-execute cause segfault started by non-root without libpam-cgfs