lxd daemon does not start automatically

[Christopher Townsend]

After install the lxd package in 15.04, the lxd daemon is not started, either after the package installation or after a system reboot.

I have to manually issue "systemctl start lxd" to get it to run.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: lxd 0.7-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-16.16-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed May 6 12:04:14 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-18 (778 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
SourcePackage: lxd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2014-10-20 (197 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Same here. Installed lxd based on the instructions found on ubuntu.com:
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/20/installing-lxd-and-the-command-line-tool/

since the lxd daemon does not start on its own, the instructions in the quick start fail:

ubuntu@these-grandmother:~$ lxd-images import lxc ubuntu vivid amd64 --alias vivid
LXD isn't running.
ubuntu@these-grandmother:~$ service lxd start
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
Authentication is required to manage system services or units.
Authenticating as: Ubuntu (ubuntu)
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Failed to start lxd.service: Access denied
ubuntu@these-grandmother:~$ sudo service lxd start
ubuntu@these-grandmother:~$ lxd-images import lxc ubuntu vivid amd64 --alias vivid
Downloading the GPG key for https://images.linuxcontainers.org
Downloading the image list for https://images.linuxcontainers.org
Validating the GPG signature of /tmp/tmpwejpywf2/index.json.asc
Downloading the image: https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ubuntu/vivid/amd64/default/20150604_03:49/lxd.tar.xz

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

This has been fixed in wily.