On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 05:46:23PM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running a Host with Debian Lenny on 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 with
> VS-API: 0x00020303 and util-vserver: 0.30.216-pre2772; Dec 13 2008,
> 04:56:19 (it's basically all standard Debian installation).
I'd suggest to update to a more recent, less buggy kernel
and util-vserver version
> I now would like to get Ubuntu 10.10 as guest running. For that I
> started out with creating a symlink "maverick" in
> /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts pointing to "gutsy" (I did this because I
> found that in an ubuntu server I installed on a machine directly it was
> the same).
> The build process went OK until the end:
> I: Configuring python-central...
> W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times.
> I: Configuring procps...
> W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times.
> I: Base system installed successfully.
> I found out about
> http://linux-vserver.org/Installing_Ubuntu_8.04_Hardy_as_guest which
> basically said that this message can be ignored.
> I've then started and entered the vserver and adjusted the sources.list
> to point to my apt-proxy:
> deb http://apt-proxy:9999/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted universe
> multiverse
> deb-src http://apt-proxy:9999/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted universe
> multiverse
> deb http://apt-proxy:9999/ubuntu-security/ maverick main restricted
> universe multiverse
> deb-src http://apt-proxy:9999/ubuntu-security/ maverick main restricted
> universe multiverse
> First thing I tried was to set the proper locale:
> # dpkg-reconfigure locales
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> The locales package is installed:
> # dpkg -l locales|grep '^ii'
> ii locales 2.13+git20100825-1 common files
> for locale support
you also want to install the actual locale files
not just the locale support, and either configure
the locale to be the same as the host (en_US.UTF-8)
or unset it when entering the guest
> I've then tried to install some random package, e.g. "mc" and it worked
> but it spilled my screen with lots of warning messages, boiling down to
> that there are three packages which can't be properly set up (I've
> removed all the perl ocale error messages, it makes it pretty unreadable):
> Setting up rsyslog (4.2.0-2ubuntu8) ...
> start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket
> /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
> invoke-rc.d: initscript rsyslog, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing rsyslog (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up procps (1:3.2.8-9ubuntu3) ...
> start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket
> /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
> dpkg: error processing procps (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-minimal:
> ubuntu-minimal depends on procps; however:
> Package procps is not configured yet.
> ubuntu-minimal depends on rsyslog; however:
> Package rsyslog is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing ubuntu-minimal (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> rsyslog
> procps
> ubuntu-minimal
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> I googled a bit but couldn't distill were to head from there. The
> only thing I realized is that Upstart replaced the traditional init.d
> event mechanism, but I'm unsure how to proceed from here. I guess my
> goal should be "to get upstart" running but I've yet to find some
> background about the problem.
http://linux-vserver.org/Upstart_issues
> Has anyone encountered this or knows any workarounds?
> I'm not sure if the inability to configure the locales is
> related to this, help on that matter is very much appreciated too.
no, not really related, you get that on any distro
which has no locale configured/installed when entering
the guest with a preset host locale
HTH,
Herbert
> thanks,
> - Markus
Received on Mon Oct 18 20:36:14 2010