lxc-fedora template is broken

Thanks for submitting this bug. It would be great to get fedora container creation working.

With the patch you supplied, are you able to create a fedora container? It doesn't seem to suffice for me. If it suffices for you, can you tell me exactly what command you used?

Doh, this was already fixed upstream (see [1]), but it seems that this is not the only thing broken in lxc-fedora template. Though even upstream's current master version (5fe95ad1) did not work. I had to make some other changes too to get it working. I've submitted my changes upstream [2].

To get working lxc-fedora template, just clone upsteam git repo and apply the patches from [2]. I can also attach the patched lxc-fedora template for convenience.

Don't know if this bug report makes any sense anymore. Maybe Ubuntu should just wait that upstream integrates the fixes and makes a new release?

References:

[1] http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=commit;h=a30ce0ac4db1bac032799da550f747cf17e45d08

[2] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1319639383-15129-4-git-send-email-tuomas.suutari%40gmail.com&forum_name=lxc-devel

This is the version of lxc-fedora template that I got working. Replace /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora with this and use "lxc-create -t fedora ..." to create a Fedora container with it.

Quoting Tuomas Suutari (<email address hidden>):
> Doh, this was already fixed upstream (see [1]), but it seems that this
> is not the only thing broken in lxc-fedora template. Though even
> upstream's current master version (5fe95ad1) did not work. I had to make
> some other changes too to get it working. I've submitted my changes
> upstream [2].
>
> To get working lxc-fedora template, just clone upsteam git repo and
> apply the patches from [2]. I can also attach the patched lxc-fedora
> template for convenience.

Thanks for the info, Tuomas!

> Don't know if this bug report makes any sense anymore. Maybe Ubuntu
> should just wait that upstream integrates the fixes and makes a new
> release?

We're hoping a new release can happen soon, so that may indeed be
the best route.

Daviey, can we get this bug un-targeted? If you feel the target should
stick, then I'll apply the patches before next release of course.

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Just a note, this bug is still waiting for a new lxc release.

This bug was fixed in the package lxc - 0.7.5-3ubuntu5

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lxc (0.7.5-3ubuntu5) precise; urgency=low

  [ Robie Basak ]
  * debian/patches/0015-ubuntu-templ-use-updates.patch: use ports.ubuntu.com
    in sources.list for alternative architectures (LP: #820715).
  * debian/patches/0015-ubuntu-templ-use-updates.patch: dist-upgrade in an
    isolated environment to avoid leaving a bind mount behind (LP: #913877).
  * debian/lxc.{default,init}: call ifconfig with explicit netmask
    (LP: #913727).

  [ Serge Hallyn ]
  * debian/lxc.default: update the MIRROR example - using 'localhost'
    fails for updates after the container has been started.
  * debian/lxcguest.console.upstart: pass 'console' not '/dev/console' to
    getty. (LP: #913952)
  * debian/patches/0015-ubuntu-templ-use-updates.patch: at post_process(),
    copy host's /etc/resolv.conf (which may have changed) into chroot before
    apt-get actions, and always do a apt-get update before installing lxcguest,
    as the package version may have changed in the archive. (LP: #914155)
  * 0016-nested-cgroups.patch: nest container cgroups under the host's
    init cgroup. (LP: #901482)
  * 0017-pull-upstream-fedora-template.patch: move to the upstream
    lxc-fedora template (LP: #881903)
  * 0018-make-lxc-ps-search-proc.patch: work when cgroups are mounted with
    '-n'.
  * debian/patches/0019-fix-lxc-ls-nested-cgroups.patch: fix lxc-ls to
    handle the support for nested cgroups. (pull this into previous
    commit msg before pushing)
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:51:45 +0000