Re: [Vserver] can't find var/run:

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun 09 Oct 2005 - 23:55:36 BST
Message-ID: <20051009225536.GA8684@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 07:52:07PM +0200, stefan julius wrote:
> Hello Herbert,
>
> thanx for your help with installation
>
> here a short summary of my questions because my last request was in
> german
> so for all other people who may have the same problems in the future
> (maybe ;-))!
>
>
> My problem was that the vservers directory has been installed
> under/usr/local/etc so
> Herbert informed me to try it with
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-vrootdir=/vservers
>
> and
>
> make install && make install-distribution
>
> all works fine!
>
> For this thanx a lot!
>
> But now there is another directory problem
>
> after installing example DebianSid
>
> (Changing the vserver base path, works fine without any problem, but I
> must say, that I have created the /home/vservers directory manually )
>
> I get everytime the following error message:
>
>
> find: var/run: No such file or directory --> the /var/run directory is
> there, why this message
>
> fakerunlevel: open("/var/run/utmp"): No such file or directory --> the
> utmp file is there, why this message
>
> Failed to start vserver 'DebianSid'
>
>
> after I have commented out the second line in fstab /tmp
>
> fstab:
>
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> #none /tmp tmpfs size=16m,mode=1777 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>
>
>
>
>
> Also after
>
> vserver DebianSid build -m debootstrap -- -d sid -m
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.1.17.7woody1_i386.deb -- --resolve-deps
>
> I mustn't wait for debootstrap to finish.
>
> First I tried as it is described in the step-by-step guide
>
> vserver DebianSid build -m debootstrap -- -d sid -m
> ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ -- --resolve-deps
>
> Could not find local version of 'debootstrap'; downloading it from
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.1.4_all.deb...
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.1.4_all.deb:
> 21:44:24 FEHLER 404: Not Found.
> ERROR: Could not download the debootstrap package from
>
> /var/tmp/debootstrap.kr2013/debootstrap.deb
>
> Usually, this means that Debian released a new version which is unknown
> to util-vserver and removed the known ones. To fix this, go to
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/
>
> (or a nearby mirror) and search the URL for the most recent *.deb
> package matching your platform. Then, put this URL into
>
> /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/debootstrap/uri
>
> and retry the vserver-build command again.
> rm
> -rf /etc/vservers/.defaults/vdirbase/DebianSid /etc/vservers/DebianSid
>
>
> because of this I changed the URL as shown above
>
>
>
> For your information the /var/run/vservers/ and
> the /var/run/vservers.rev /var/run/vservers.help, can be found
> under /usr/var/run/vservers.rev; /usr/var/run/vservers
> and /usr/var/run/vservers.help
> maybe thats the problem I don't know, maybe I shall try
> again ./configure --prefix=/ --sysconfdir=/etc
> --with-vrootdir=/vservers, and not
> --prefix=/usr.

could be, you can also add more specific pathes like
--localstatedir=/var and such, check the final overview
you get _after_ the ./configure, if that suits your
needs ...

HTH,
Herbert

> Maybe it is a simple problem as the other before but I do not come
> further
>
>
> Please help me
>
>
> Greetinx Stefan
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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