Re: [vserver] Cloning Gentoo vserver guest error

From: Roderick Anderson <raanders42_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue 07 Oct 2014 - 00:58:18 BST
Message-ID: <54332C9A.2090209@gmail.com>

Glad it helped.

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Rod

-- 
On 10/06/2014 04:52 PM, John A. Wallace wrote:
> Hi, Roderick.
>
> Your clue was also helpful and forced me to take a closer look at my command
> used for cloning. I realize now that I had an error in it, which I have
> since corrected. It was a careless error:
>
> vserver vs4_gent build -m clone --interface enp1s10:192.168.0.22/24 --
> source /vservers/vs1
>
> Anyway, I have another Gentoo guest.  All's well that ends well.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roderick Anderson [mailto:raanders42@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 1:34 PM
>> To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
>> Subject: Re: [vserver] Cloning Gentoo vserver guest error
>>
>> Hey.  I've been here before.
>>
>> I think Dennis missed an asterisk.
>>
>>      ls -la /etc/vservers/*/vdir
>>
>>
>> Rod
>> --
>> On 10/06/2014 11:19 AM, John A. Wallace wrote:
>>> Hi, Dennis.  When I did the command you mentioned, it appeared to me
>>> that the first part worked fine, showing the files I would expect to
>>> see at "/etc/vservers", namely:
>>>
>>> .defaults
>>> .distributions
>>> VS1
>>> VS2
>>> VS3
>>> Etc...
>>>
>>> However, the second part of the command does appear to have a
>> problem,
>>> showing this:
>>>
>>> "ls: cannot access /etc/vservers//vdir: No such file or directory".
>>>
>>> Which symbolic link, as you mentioned, is missing?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Dennis Roos [mailto:dennis.roos@gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 4:42 AM
>>>> To: John Wallace
>>>> Cc: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [vserver] Cloning Gentoo vserver guest error
>>>>
>>>> Dear John,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Start with an ls -la /etc/vservers/ && ls -la /etc/vservers//vdir
>> my
>>>> guess is that either the symlink is broken (points to a non-existing
>>>> path) or the directory doesn't exist at all.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Dennis Roos
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 6, 2014, at 4:16 , John Wallace wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When I tried cloning an existing, fully functional Vserver guest
>>>> running Gentoo, I get the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> "/usr/lib/util-server/functions: line 83: cd : /etc/vservers//vdir:
>>>> No such file or directory"
>>>>>
>>>>> (That is not a typo with double slashes between vservers and vdir.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is what I see in util-vserver lines 81-84:
>>>>>
>>>>> function getPhysicalDir
>>>>> {
>>>>>      (set -P && cd "$1" && pwd)
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not a programmer and cannot see whether there is any error in
>>>> that code. I know that I have cloned in the past using the same
>>>> method but with a Debian guest, not Gentoo, and I have surely
>> updated
>>>> a few programs since then. I am using Gentoo Linux 3.13.11-
>> vs2.3.6.11
>>>> on the host. The installed version of util-vserver is
>>>> 0.30.216_pre3038. If someone has an idea about how to troubleshoot
>>>> this, I would appreciate hearing about it, and I can provide
>>>> additional information if necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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