Re: [vserver] Problem with delete vserver with SYS_ADMIN set

From: Steve Kieu <msh.computing_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat 27 Aug 2011 - 02:42:24 BST
Message-ID: <CAAQ-o+8O+Rij2rcRoQ25RD5ovGQ0dzZWbEuw5YVOSOgc3YSZwA@mail.gmail.com>

All right, I edited the file etc/rc6.d/K07umountroot and just commented out
all mount remount ro thing - this works

Thank you very much for your help. If someone know why it does not happen
with x86 I still want to hear :-)

cheers,

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Steve Kieu <msh.computing@gmail.com>wrote:

> Confirmed this is the case. I tried to start in rescue like vserver test
> start --rescue /bin/bash
>
> and then exit the bash shell, and I am able to delete it - this bypass all
> init scripts.
>
> But why it does not happen with x86 which is unknown to me now. The vserver
> root file system is created by debootstrap, but I have many other ported
> from openvz templates and manually build using rsync method - so I need to
> trace it down where the remount ro.
>
> Now I have to trace it doen where the actual remount as ro in the shutdown
> script :-( - any hint ?
>
> of course they are somewhere in /etc/rc6.0/ ... :-)
>
> many thanks
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Steve Kieu <msh.computing@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What I can not quite understand is that why it only happen with sparc
>> kernel. x86 and x86_64 same kernel same utils are fine.
>>
>> It might be that when the MOUNT permission are allowed inside guest, guest
>> startup script mount it as read - only. It is done in the guest init system
>> (I mean sysv init script in /etc/init.d/ ) ? Or it is controlled by vserver
>> utils?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:48:21PM +0200, Grzegorz Nosek wrote:
>>> > W dniu 26.08.2011 12:24, Steve Kieu pisze:
>>> >> No speacial erroe at dmesg and message at all. The error
>>> >> message when running vserver delete is just thousand of lines
>>> >> like this
>>>
>>> >> remove `/var/lib/vservers/test/sbin/udevadm': Read-only file system
>>>
>>> > You probably have the guest shutdown scripts remounting all
>>> > filesystems into read-only mode.
>>>
>>> yeah, that sounds quite likely, please add some kind
>>> of mount info (probably best would be cat /proc/mounts)
>>> into the post-stop scriptlet ...
>>>
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> cat /proc/mounts >/tmp/mount.info
>>>
>>> if this is the case, your problem is a badly cleaned
>>> up guest system, which should be easy to fix
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Herbert
>>>
>>> > Best regards,
>>> > Grzegorz Nosek
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve Kieu
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Steve Kieu
>

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Steve Kieu
Received on Sat Aug 27 02:42:35 2011
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