Current implementation of lxc-wait wait forever until the container reach a states passed in argument.
If for some reason the container hangs (in my case it was blocking while trying to bind mount a device) lxc-wait never exit the wait loop.
It'd be nice to have a timeout option and exit with a non-zero exit status if it reaches the timeout, something like:
lx-wait -d DURATION -n NAME -s STATE
It's a wishlist item, timeout from coreutils can be used for this purpose.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: lxc 0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-2.2-generic 3.5.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 2 18:05:24 2012
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-01-31 (152 days ago)
Serge added the timeout option to the wait() call in the API last week, so once we start rewritting the tools to use the API, we'll get that for free.