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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Mon 04 Apr 2005 - 17:54:57 BST


On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:45:25PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:33:37PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:35:40AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:16:28PM +0100, Gaz Wilson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any experience with the development branch of Vserver
> > > > and Debian?
> > >
> > > Yes I'm the maintainer and yesterday util-vserver 0.30.204 finally
> > > found it's way to sarge.
> >
> > hey, great!
>
> Yes. There were a couple of issues with dietlibc but I have got help from
> some people, including the dietlibc maintainer and now it build fine
> on all arches, except hppa and arm, that it should not build on as
> there is no reserved syscall.

we have a syscall for arm now ;) it is also supported with
the latest kernel (but untested) ...

I would be interested if the tools (compiled against dietlibc)
actually 'work' on certain platforms (especially x86_64 and
ppc), because I suspect that there are still dietlibc issues
on those platforms ...

maybe you could arrange something?

> > 0.30.205 is out (but requires some changes) so I'd suggest
> > waiting for 0.30.206 and update to that once done ...
>
> Ok, I'll wait for 0.30.206 to come out then.
>
> I got a bug report on vserver-copy that it should have --numeric-ids added
> to the rsync command to preserve permissions properly. It would be great
> if that is added as well.

guess that should be no big problem, enrico?

TIA,
Herbert

> Regards,
>
> // Ola
>
> > best,
> > Herbert
> >
> > > So if would be really nice if you could try this on this version of
> > > util-vserver as well.
> > >
> > > If there is any problem, I would like bug reports so it can be fixed.
> > >
> > > Happy hacking!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > // Ola
> > >
> > > > I'm having trouble with things not running within the vserver, most notably
> > > > "w" and "ifconfig", although my testing stopped there, there may be many
> > > > more...
> > > >
> > > > I have a totally clean build of Debian (Sarge), running kernel 2.6.11 and
> > > > VS 1.9.5 built from source.
> > > >
> > > > I have built util-vserver-0.30.204 from source, with the following
> > > > configure line:
> > > >
> > > > ./configure --with-vrootdir=/local/vservers
> > > >
> > > > Which went well, this was installed.
> > > >
> > > > I have then created a vserver with the following command line:
> > > >
> > > > vserver test01 build -m debootstrap --hostname test01 --netdev eth0
> > > > --interface 172.29.31.242/16 -- -d sarge
> > > >
> > > > Which appeared to go well. I then started it up:
> > > >
> > > > host01:/# vserver test01 start
> > > > Starting system log daemon: syslogd.
> > > > Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
> > > > Starting MTA: exim4.
> > > > Starting internet superserver: inetd.
> > > > Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
> > > > Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
> > > >
> > > > All OK so far, but when I enter the server, I get all sorts of oddness...
> > > >
> > > > If I enter the vserver, then execute in this order: ls, mount, df, w,
> > > > ifconfig, ifconfig -a, mount /proc and id - I get:
> > > >
> > > > host01:/# vserver test01 enter
> > > > mesg: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted
> > > > test01:/# ls
> > > > bin dev home lib mnt proc sbin sys usr
> > > > boot etc initrd media opt root srv tmp var
> > > > test01:/# mount
> > > > /dev/hdv1 on / type ufs (defaults)
> > > > none on /proc type proc (defaults)
> > > > none on /tmp type tmpfs (size=16m,mode=1777)
> > > > none on /dev/pts type devpts (gid=5,mode=620)
> > > > test01:/# df
> > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > > > /dev/hdv1 63457000 176252 60057308 1% /
> > > > none 16384 0 16384 0% /tmp
> > > > test01:/# w
> > > > Error: /proc must be mounted
> > > > To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
> > > > /proc /proc proc defaults
> > > > In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
> > > > test01:/# ifconfig
> > > > Segmentation fault
> > > > test01:/# ifconfig -a
> > > > Segmentation fault
> > > > test01:/# mount /proc
> > > > mount: permission denied
> > > > test01:/# id
> > > > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
> > > >
> > > > I have read many many pages of documentation from various servers including:
> > > >
> > > > http://lena.franken.de/linux/debian_and_vserver/vserver.html
> > > > http://linux-vserver.org/alpha+util-vserver
> > > > http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/*
> > > > http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc
> > > > etc
> > > > etc
> > > >
> > > > but to no avail.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone seen this issue before and can they advise me what might be astray?
> > > > I guess there could be something in the kernel that is missing or needed,
> > > > but I couldn't say...
> > > >
> > > > GW
> > > >
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