Re: [vserver] vserver won't start properly

Try
fsck -f /dev/sda6

If not fixed - than restore you guest from backup or from old copy as it
looks like FS corruption.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:30 AM, andy baxter <
andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

> On 09/12/10 17:22, Michael wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:10 AM, andy baxter <
>> andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk <mailto: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.
>>
>> whale:/# fsck /dev/sda6
> fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> /dev/sda6: clean, 43590/625856 files, 375913/2502115 blocks
>
> (sda6 is mounted at /virt on the host, and the vservers are both in subdirs
> of that)
>
>
> cat /etc/vservers/alien/name ?
>> put alien there.
>>
>> I have already done this and it still gives the wrong hostname:
>
> whale:/etc/vservers/alien# cat /etc/vservers/alien/name
> alien
>
>
>
> what about your old copy? Is it working fine?
>>
>
> Yes, everything started fine on that one.
>

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Michael