Re: [vserver] vserver won't start properly

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:10 AM, andy baxter <
andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have set up a couple of vservers on my debian stable machine, both
> running ubuntu lucid. The first one, dolphin, has been running nicely for a
> while. I built a copy of it (using the rsync method to 'vserver build'), and
> changed the hostname to make another vserver, alien. Yesterday I managed to
> get alien to start up, and it was working fine with apache / php / mysql
> running on it and the network being routed on the host machine. Today there
> was a power interruption and now it won't start up - when I do 'vserver
> alien start', it boots up to a certain point with a few processes running,
> but most of the services don't start up.
>
> This is 'ps ax' on the vserver:
>
> root@whale:/# ps ax
> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> 1 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/init
> 3876 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh -e /proc/self/fd/9
> 3897 ? S 0:00 initctl emit local-filesystems
> 3915 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon --system --fork
> 3973 ? R+ 0:00 login
> 4006 pts/2 Ss 0:00 /bin/bash -login
> 4019 pts/2 R+ 0:00 ps ax
>
> This is 'vserver alien status' on the host:
>
> whale:/etc/aide# vserver alien status
> Vserver 'alien' is running at context '40003'
> Number of processes: 4
> Uptime: 00:14
>
> The other thing I find strange is that when I log into alien using either
> 'vserver enter 'or ssh (which was working yesterday but not today), the
> hostname in the terminal is reported as 'whale'.
>
> whale:/etc/aide# vserver alien enter
> root@whale:/# hostname
> whale
> root@whale:/# cat /etc/hostname
> alien
>
> Can anyone help with this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> andy baxter
>

1.! fsck on root nad guest filesystem for errors.

cat /etc/vservers/alien/name ?
put alien there.

what about your old copy? Is it working fine?

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Michael