On 09.09.2014 18:25, Steven Wilson wrote: >We recently ran into libvirt lxc shutdown failing because of mount >namespaces not being available: > ># virsh -c lxc:/// start test01 >Domain test01 started > ># virsh -c lxc:/// list > Id Name State >---------------------------------------------------- > 9336 test01 running > ># virsh -c lxc:/// shutdown test01 >error: Failed to shutdown domain test01 >error: Mount namespaces are not available on this platform: Function not >implemented > >/var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log: >2014-09-03 15:50:50.682+0000: 3030: error : >virProcessRunInMountNamespace:999 : Mount namespaces are not available >on this platform: Function not implemented > >We're running Debian wheezy with stock libc6 2.13-38, a custom 3.12.15 >kernel (with namespace support) and libvirt 1.2.3. This may be the problem. Libvirt needs setns() syscall as of 1.2.2 which may not exist in your custom kernel. Or maybe you have old kernel-headers package so the libvirt's configure script doesn't see the syscall. > >The patch in this previous thread fixes shutdown for us and we'd like to >see it merged upstream: > >https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-May/msg00175.html From this it seems like glic is wrapping the syscall, so a glibc update may solve the issue. If that's the case we may need to update our libvirt.spec.in to reflect that.