$ sudo systemctl status lxcfs -l
● lxcfs.service - FUSE filesystem for LXC
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lxcfs.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2015-01-14 08:20:10 CET; 8s ago
Process: 3306 ExecStart=/usr/bin/lxcfs -s -o allow_other /var/lib/lxcfs/ (code=exited, status=255)
Main PID: 3306 (code=exited, status=255)
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: lxcfs.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Stopping FUSE filesystem for LXC...
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Starting FUSE filesystem for LXC...
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for lxcfs.service
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Failed to start FUSE filesystem for LXC.
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Unit lxcfs.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: lxcfs.service failed.
"fuse" and "libfuse2" are installed, but perhaps this is missing some other dependency?
For fun I also tried this under systemd, but debian/rules is missing "--with systemd", so the lxcfs job is never enabled. Enabling it manually with
sudo systemctl enable lxcfs
sudo systemctl start lxcfs
fails:
$ sudo systemctl status lxcfs -l system/ lxcfs.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) /usr/bin/ lxcfs -s -o allow_other /var/lib/lxcfs/ (code=exited, status=255)
● lxcfs.service - FUSE filesystem for LXC
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2015-01-14 08:20:10 CET; 8s ago
Process: 3306 ExecStart=
Main PID: 3306 (code=exited, status=255)
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: lxcfs.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Stopping FUSE filesystem for LXC...
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Starting FUSE filesystem for LXC...
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for lxcfs.service
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Failed to start FUSE filesystem for LXC.
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Unit lxcfs.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 08:20:10 autopkgtest systemd[1]: lxcfs.service failed.
"fuse" and "libfuse2" are installed, but perhaps this is missing some other dependency?