Comment 9 for bug 819621

Thanks, Robert.

It looks like ssh is not being properly killed. When we force it to die with lxc-stop, it does not remove its /var/run/ files. Then it fails to start bc those already exist.

Until this is fixed, you can work around this by doing

  rm -rf /var/lib/lxc/<container-name>/rootfs/var/run
  mkdir !!:2

After this I'm able to restart the lucid container. You can automate this by changing your container's /etc/init/lxcmount to the one I'm about to attach. With that, I still need to kill the container by hand, but then lxc-start works.

I'm tempted to wait to see if we can implement proper container reboot/poweroff support at the lxc sprint next week, because the lxc-monitor watching /var/run/utmp is an ugly hack anyway, and continually finding ways to fix its breaks does not seem productive.