Re: [libvirt-users] Unable to start LXC on Gentoo w/ libvirt 1.0.4 or 1.0.5. 1.0.3 works

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:19:51AM -0500, Dennis Jenkins wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com >wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:06:36AM -0500, Dennis Jenkins wrote: > > > http://pastebin.com/nXcNQukz > > > > Hmm, so from the logs I'm fairly certain the missing path is the > > /.oldroot//var/run/libvirt/lxc/dwj-lnx-dev.devpts one, not /dev/pts > > > > Can you tell me if any part of '/var/run/libvirt/lxc/' is a symlink > > to elsewhere ? In particular is '/var/run' a symlink, and if so > > is it relative or absolute ? > > > > > No symlinks under "/var/run/libvirt", but "/var/run" is a symlink to "/run". > > ostara ~ # file /var/run > /var/run: symbolic link to `/run' Ok, that'll be the problem. When libvirt prepends /.oldroot onto the path, the symlink keeps pointing to /run instead of to /.oldroot/run :-( On Fedora "/var/run" is a relative symlink to "../run" to avoid these kinds of problem. As a quick workaround you can make your symlink relative too. I'll get a fix into the next libvirt release to deal with absolute symlinks better.