lxc-test-checkpoint-restore doesn't clean up after itself and I am unable to re-run it

[Jeff Lane ]

I ran lxc-test-checkpoint-restore and it failed. So I decided to try one additional attempt to verify the failure. However now I am unable to re-run the test because apparently the container already exists (previous test did not clean up after itself), however, lxc list does not show any running containers...

ubuntu@xwing:~$ lxc list
+------+-------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
| NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | EPHEMERAL | SNAPSHOTS |
+------+-------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
+------+-------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
ubuntu@xwing:~$ sudo lxc-test-checkpoint-restore
Container already exists
Failed creating container
ubuntu@xwing:~$ sudo lxc list
+------+-------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
| NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | EPHEMERAL | SNAPSHOTS |
+------+-------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
+------+-------+------+------+-----------+-----------+

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

That's by design, none of the lxc-test-* binaries clean after themselves on failure so that the developer running them can go inspect the remnants to understand what's actually happened.