Comment 3 for bug 1576419

FTR, this still happens when running the tests in an m1.large instance (8 GB RAM). I was trying to reproduce locally with

  adt-run --apt-pocket=proposed docker.io --- qemu adt-yakkety-amd64-cloud.img

and have ssh open to the VM while it runs (port 10022 on localhost, user:pass ubuntu:ubuntu)

but they hang at

Step 5 : RUN gcc -g -Wall -static userns.c -o /usr/bin/userns-test && gcc -g -Wall -static ns.c -o /usr/bin/ns-test && gcc -g -Wall -static acct.c -o /usr/bin/acct-test
 ---> Running in e064dc8c3809
Container command not found or does not exist.
./hack/make.sh: line 258: local: can only be used in a function

which is much earlier than the point above where it killed ssh. ssh is still working at that point, although /proc is seriously broken (not sure what the test does to that -- "top", "mount" etc. don't work any more).