Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Added lxc-devel to the cc list since this seems to be more appropriate > over there (maybe) and I've just joined that one as well. > > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > >> Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hy all! >>>>> >>>>> Today I've started to play with the LXC containers, and I've got a >>>>> question: when starting a container (with it's own mount point >>>>> namespace), and I do a `cat /proc/mounts` I also see the mount points >>>>> from my host system. >>>>> >>>>> So the question is: how can I force `lxc-create` to remove any >>>>> uneeded mount points (maybe all)? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Committed today :) >>>> >>>> http://git.lab.toulouse-stg.fr.ibm.com/?p=lxc.git;a=commit;h=ed83715df7666879116d1657b1dd54a8fc6513f6 >>>> >>>> > > >> Oops, this one: >> > > >> http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=commit;h=bf601689a9e0cea1ceaf17e4f7f853f5392c2827 >> > > Nice. This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for as well. Only problem > is... It didn't work. It complains about: > > lxc-start: could not umount 1 mounts" > > Then terminates saying it can't start the container. > > When I throw in some debugging prints, I find out that it's complaining > that it can't umount {pivotdir}/dev. Commented out the return -1's in > that routine so it starts the container anyways and jump into the > running container and I discover that {pivotdir}/dev/shm is still > mounted even though it thinks it umounted it. I can see from the > debugging prints that it seems to have successfully umount it (the > debugging message indicates that it umounted it - so it saw it had it > and tried and got a good return from the attempt) but it's apparently > still mount. If I umount that {pivotdir}/dev/shm inside the container, > I can then umount {pivotdir}/dev and {pivotdir}. > > Tried it both by defining lxc.pivotdir and by letting it choose a > temporary one. Tried two different containers. Same result. > > This is what I get with the "return -1"'s commented out in the function > and laced with my own debugging prints to print each step of the umount > loop (this is with lxc.pivotdir = /rootfs): > > === > [root@Berserker-Base ~]# lxc-start -n 1009 > still mounted '/rootfs/dev' > umounted '/rootfs/dev/pts' > umounted '/rootfs/dev/shm' > still mounted '/rootfs/proc' > umounted '/rootfs/proc/bus/usb' > umounted '/rootfs/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc' > umounted '/rootfs/sys' > umounted '/rootfs/home' > still mounted '/rootfs/var' > umounted '/rootfs/var/lib/cgroup' > umounted '/rootfs/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs' > umounted '/rootfs/usr' > umounted '/rootfs/boot' > still mounted '/rootfs/srv' > umounted '/rootfs/misc' > umounted '/rootfs/net' > still mounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/export' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/srv/shared' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/pts' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/proc' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/sys' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/shm' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/console' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/tty1' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/tty2' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/tty3' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/tty4' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/tty5' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009/dev/tty6' > still mounted '/rootfs/dev' > umounted '/rootfs/proc' > umounted '/rootfs/var' > still mounted '/rootfs/srv' > umounted '/rootfs/srv/lxc/root/1009' > still mounted '/rootfs/dev' > umounted '/rootfs/srv' > still mounted '/rootfs/dev' > lxc-start: could not umount 1 mounts > lxc-start: Device or resource busy - could not unmount old rootfs > INIT: version 2.86 booting > === > > Container now continues to boot, since I commented out the error > returns. Jumping into that container: > > === > [root@Berserker ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > rootfs 288433504 240305660 33476248 88% / > /dev/sda6 2063504 662116 1296568 34% /rootfs > udev 1031280 200 1031080 1% /rootfs/dev > /dev/shm 1031280 0 1031280 0% /rootfs/dev/shm > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 288433504 240305660 33476248 88% / > /dev/sda6 2063504 662116 1296568 34% /export > /dev/sda7 693727244 554704408 103783460 85% /srv/shared > none 1031280 0 1031280 0% /dev/shm > [root@Berserker ~]# umount /rootfs/dev/shm > [root@Berserker ~]# umount /rootfs/dev > [root@Berserker ~]# umount /rootfs > [root@Berserker ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > rootfs 288433504 240305672 33476236 88% / > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 288433504 240305672 33476236 88% / > /dev/sda6 2063504 662116 1296568 34% /export > /dev/sda7 693727244 554704408 103783460 85% /srv/shared > none 1031280 0 1031280 0% /dev/shm > === > > Of course we also have the strange "rootfs" entry there as well. > > Host system is Fedora 12. > Host kernel is: 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686 > Guest system in each case is CentOS 5.4 > I added in the Cc Michael Holzt. Thanks for reporting this. -- Daniel _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers