Templates don't launch. Multi-arch problem?

[yitzhakbg]

Actually, it's not just the templates. Seems the LXC environment isn't setup correctly and I suspect multi-arch.
Raring 13.04 using kernel 3.8.0-26-generic.
lxc-version 0.9.0 from the daily-builds PPA, but, please note:
I had the same problem under the standard raring edition. I added the daily PPA in the hope that it would help. It didn't!
I purged ia32-libs and ia32-libs-multiarch to no avail.
Does the installation look right?
ybg@bgxtr:~/Media/Mininetry$ find /usr/lib|grep lxc
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lxc
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lxc/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lxc/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lxc/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-33.pyc
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/_lxc-0.1.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/_lxc.cpython-33m.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/README
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/lxc-init
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblxc.so.0.9.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblxc.so.0

Following are two clean-slate scenarios following a fresh install of lxc and cgroup-lite, after purge of ia32-libs, but again, it behaved the same prior to the ia32-libs purge.
First, ubuntu from template:

sudo lxc-create -n ub -t ubuntu -l DEBUG -o ub.log -- -b ybg
[ log file name should have been ./ub.log instead of ub.log. My fault. Don't know why locale is en_AU ]
( skipping lengthy output....)
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com raring-updates/universe Translation-en_AU
Fetched 5,327 kB in 13s (386 kB/s)
.
  . etc...
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common libdbus-1-3 libdrm2 libplymouth2 libssl1.0.0 libudev1 plymouth rsyslog
9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,539 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,048 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main libssl1.0.0 amd64 1.0.1c-4ubuntu8.1 [1,050 kB]
.
  . etc...
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main rsyslog amd64 5.8.11-2ubuntu2.2 [434 kB]
Fetched 3,539 kB in 7s (493 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
 .
   .
Preparing to replace isc-dhcp-common 4.2.4-5ubuntu2 (using .../isc-dhcp-common_4.2.4-5ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb) ...
 .
   . etc...
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Setting up libssl1.0.0:amd64 (1.0.1c-4ubuntu8.1) ...
Setting up libdbus-1-3:amd64 (1.6.8-1ubuntu6.1) ...
telinit: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Setting up libdrm2:amd64 (2.4.43-0ubuntu1.1) ...
 .
   . etc...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
Download complete
Copy /var/cache/lxc/raring/rootfs-amd64 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc ...
Copying rootfs to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc ...
Generating locales...
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
Creating SSH2 RSA key; this may take some time ...
Creating SSH2 DSA key; this may take some time ...
Creating SSH2 ECDSA key; this may take some time ...

##
# Log in as user ybg
##

Starting:
ybg@bgxtr:~/Media/Mininetry$ sudo lxc-start -n ub -l DEBUG -o ./ub.log -- -b ybg [log OK this time, following...]
lxc-start: No such file or directory - failed to exec -b
lxc-start: invalid sequence number 1. expected 4
lxc-start: failed to spawn 'ub'
lxc-start: Device or resource busy - failed to remove cgroup '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/lxc/ub'
lxc-start: Device or resource busy - failed to remove cgroup '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/lxc/ub'
lxc-start: Device or resource busy - failed to remove cgroup '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/lxc/ub'
lxc-start: Device or resource busy - failed to remove cgroup '/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/lxc/ub'
lxc-start: Device or resource busy - failed to remove cgroup '/sys/fs/cgroup/devices/lxc/ub'
lxc-start: Device or resource busy - failed to remove cgroup '/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/lxc/ub'

log file, ub.log attached

[yitzhakbg (yitzhakbg)]

Scenario from the second standard template (sshd). Log file attached:
ybg@bgxtr:~/Media/Mininetry$ sudo lxc-create -n sshd -t sshd -l DEBUG -o ./sshd.log
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.
Your public key has been saved in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
c3:09:18:f9:3a:bd:fa:f1:1c:3c:52:33:d5:3b:44:c7 root@bgxtr
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
| .. ... |
| .o o .E |
| ... . o |
| .o o . . |
| o S o |
| o .o + . |
| .o.+ |
| .= o |
| .o. o |
+-----------------+
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.
Your public key has been saved in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
71:42:71:9a:b5:f5:6e:cc:b1:05:f0:c8:ee:ae:bd:d2 root@bgxtr
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ DSA 1024]----+
| o.o o.. |
| . = + + . |
| = o o + .|
| + . + + |
| S . * |
| . . |
| .. |
| .oE |
| .o+. |
+-----------------+
ybg@bgxtr:~/Media/Mininetry$ sudo lxc-start -n sshd -l DEBUG -o ./sshd.log
lxc-start: Read-only file system - error unlinking /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/dev/kmsg

lxc-start: failed to setup kmsg for 'sshd'
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
lxc-start: No such file or directory - stat(/proc/26767/root/dev//console)

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks for submitting this bug. (Please do try to open separate bugs for each issue) The second part of it (sshd) has been fixed upstream just today (with a patch sent a few days ago). Please open a new bug for that one, and I'll SRU it to raring as I assume that's where you want the fix.

The first issue is not a bug. You specifed 'lxc-start [...] -- -b'. The '--' means execute what is specified after '--' as /sbin/init. Since you said 'lxc-start [...] -- -b', lxc tried to execute '-b'. -b is not a valid executable. I suspect this was a cut and paste error? The -b made sense in the lxc-create command, to request bind-mounting of that home directory. (in lxc-create, arguments following '--' are passed on to the creation template) But you do not need to re-specify it in lxc-start.

[yitzhakbg (yitzhakbg)]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Serge Hallyn <email address hidden>wrote:

> sudo lxc-start -n ub -l DEBUG -o ./ub.log -- -b ybg

​Right. It was an oversight. I left the -b ​ybg hanging from the lxc-create
command. The ubuntu template container works like a charm. Thanks
regarding the second (sshd), if it's been fixed, it's no longer a bug. I'll
try and let you know.
Oh, and tnx for advising me to submit each as a separate bug.
Yitzhak

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Yitzhak Bar Geva
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[yitzhakbg (yitzhakbg)]

Still problems with sshd template. I'm opening a new bug report