no console on precise containers

There are 3 causes, all stemming from commit 3aa6b68f7e19fa3e1c2bba75bee921a98b7b46af in upstream util-linux.

1. getty no longer accepts a full pathname. It prepends '/dev' to the string it uses to open the file. /etc/init/console.conf in lxcguest passes /dev/console. Rather than changing getty, this can be changed in console.conf by passing just 'console'.

2. ioctl(fd, TIOCSCTTY) is called twice, and returns -EPERM for the container's console. Upstream commit 1593b134ebf596ae7a2b1e73f2dcc8c4e7febddd fixes that by change log_err to log_warn.

3. a new call to tcsetpgrp is added, which returns Inappropriate ioctl for device. This is still present in upstream util-linux, but changing the following log_err to log_warn allows getty to succeed.

With each of these changes, precise containers have a console again.

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

Marking this invalid for util-linux because, mysteriously, I can no longer reproduce it.

Hi,
Here is the version of lxc I use :

root@00000043:/data/sop/src/vsop# dpkg -l lxc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============================================-===============================================-==============================================================================================================
ii lxc 0.7.5-3ubuntu52 Linux containers userspace tools

And the version of util-linux I'm using :

root@00000043:/data/sop/src/vsop# dpkg -l util-linux
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============================================-===============================================-==============================================================================================================
ii util-linux 2.20.1-1ubuntu3 Miscellaneous system utilities

And I still have the bug ...