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Devuan bug report logs - #502
LXC unprivileged containers

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

Reported by: Saman Behnam <sbehnam73@googlemail.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 01:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian, moreinfo

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On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:49:24PM -0700, Saman Behnam wrote:
>    Hi Mark,
>    It's not a LXC bug. Else i would have filed it to the LXC devs.
>    But it's very hard to get unprivileged running without those missing
>    setup defaults.
> 
>    Stephan Graber (a main lxc dev) had hard times debugging and figuring
>    out the problem.
>    It would be a very nice default for the Devuan lxc package.
>    I had LXC running on Ubuntu 18 and moved to Devuan.
>    Obviously there seems to be differences between Ubuntu and Debian
>    packaging.

Thanks for your analysis.

[…]

>    Those settings were out of the box in Ubuntu.
>    What you see above is my suggestion for Devuan.
>    I recursively grepped /etc for those settings on Ubuntu and found
>    nothing.
>    Not sure if its just the kernel defaults in Ubuntu!
>    The whole thing is more of a technical packaging issue than a bug.
>    Since I've seen that behavior on a Devuan system I felt the Devuan
>    package maintainer would be the right one to address.

OK, I understand that.

Devuan doesn't maintain separate lxc packages. We use the Debian packages
directly without recompilation. So the Debian package maintainer is the person
to ask to incorporate your suggested default config.

Does that make sense?

Thanks.

Mark

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