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From: Raoul Bhatia [ipax] (r.bhatia_at_ipax.at)
Date: Thu 31 Mar 2005 - 18:12:28 BST


just for your information:

the community discovered a bug in this util-vserver release. which
causes chcontext to fail in the following scenarios:

# chcontext --hostname zaphod.2725

doener wrote a quick fix for this bug, which is provided below.

best regards,
raoul bhatia
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diff -NurpP --minimal util-vserver-0.30.205/scripts/chcontext
util-vserver-0.30.205-fix/scripts/chcontext
--- util-vserver-0.30.205/scripts/chcontext 2005-03-21
21:03:30.000000000 +0100
+++ util-vserver-0.30.205-fix/scripts/chcontext 2005-03-31
18:48:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ migrate_cmd=( $_VCONTEXT

  IFS=$old_IFS

-if $_VSERVER_INFO -q "$OPT_CTX" XIDTYPE static; then
+if test -z "$OPT_CTX" || $_VSERVER_INFO -q "$OPT_CTX" XIDTYPE static; then
      "${create_cmd[@]}" "${chain_cmd[@]}" -- \
         "${migrate_cmd[@]}" --endsetup --migrate-self -- "$@"
      rc=$?
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Enrico Scholz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> version 0.30.205 util-vserver (alpha branch) is out. Noticable changes
> are a new 'vhashify' command which is a successor of 'vunify'. It uses
> some aggressive techniques like mmap'ing of files and the creation of
> sparse files. To prevent data lossage, it is strongly recommended to
> execute 'make check' when using non-ext3 filesystems. (Unfortunately,
> the 'cmp' tool is sometimes not configured for large files and will
> create false positives).
>
> Another issue is 'vyum': the current 'yum' version makes it impossible
> to execute it when the vserver is running (there, /.. might be unequal
> to /). A fix for yum can be found at
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=146650#c1
>
> but the upstream author dislikes it. Feel free to request another fix
> there ;)
>
>
>
>
> Enrico
>
>
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