10:49 a.m.
virt-builder on a ubuntu guest when passed --update fails with "Unable
to connect to Upstart":
https://www.nesono.com/node/368
Lee
4:52 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:49:02AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
virt-builder on a ubuntu guest when passed --update fails with
"Unable to connect to Upstart":
https://www.nesono.com/node/368
Possibly a libguestfs bug. What is the full debug output? What
version of Ubuntu? What version of libguestfs and how obtained?
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8:57 a.m.
On 03/17/2015 05:52 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:49:02AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> virt-builder on a ubuntu guest when passed --update fails with
> "Unable ls -al to connect to Upstart":
>
> https://www.nesono.com/node/368
Possibly a libguestfs bug. What is the full debug output? What
version of Ubuntu? What version of libguestfs and how obtained?
14.04, 12.04 and 10.04 all fail with a "Failed to connect to socket
/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused" error (the exact package that
fails is rsyslog on 10 and 12 and libpam-systemd in 14).
libguestfs-1.29.29 + supermin 5.1.12 built from source on fedora 21.
Here's a log for a 14.04 guest. The command used was:
$ ./run virt-builder ubuntu-14.04 --update --root-password
password:changeme --format qcow2 -o /mnt/nfs/ubuntu-10.le04.qcow2
Thanks,
Lee
9:17 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:57:41AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
On 03/17/2015 05:52 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:49:02AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>>virt-builder on a ubuntu guest when passed --update fails with
>>"Unable ls -al to connect to Upstart":
>>
>>https://www.nesono.com/node/368
>
>Possibly a libguestfs bug. What is the full debug output? What
>version of Ubuntu? What version of libguestfs and how obtained?
14.04, 12.04 and 10.04 all fail with a "Failed to connect to socket
/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused" error (the exact package
that fails is rsyslog on 10 and 12 and libpam-systemd in 14).
libguestfs-1.29.29 + supermin 5.1.12 built from source on fedora 21.
Here's a log for a 14.04 guest. The command used was:
$ ./run virt-builder ubuntu-14.04 --update --root-password
password:changeme --format qcow2 -o /mnt/nfs/ubuntu-10.le04.qcow2
Yup, this is a bug .. in something.
What is happening is that the Ubuntu libpam-systemd package has a
post-install script that tries to communicate with the init system
(which it expects to be running, but isn't running inside the
libguestfs appliance).
The obvious way to fix this would be to use a firstboot script instead
(assuming that is working - didn't you say you had a problem with
that?). Something like:
$ virt-builder ... --firstboot-command 'apt-get -y update ; apt-get -y upgrade'
It may be there is some other method based on persuading the systemd
post script not to run, or not to try talking to the init process ...
Note that --update is just a convenient shorthand for:
--run-command '
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt_opts="-q -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew"
apt-get $apt_opts update
apt-get $apt_opts upgrade
'
You can play around with that command until you get something that
works better.
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpam-systemd_204-5ubuntu20.10_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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9:23 a.m.
On 03/18/2015 10:17 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
The obvious way to fix this would be to use a firstboot script
instead
(assuming that is working - didn't you say you had a problem with
that?). Something like:
$ virt-builder ... --firstboot-command 'apt-get -y update ; apt-get -y
upgrade'
Yeah, this is the workaround I've been using.
Thanks,
Lee
4:20 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 02:17:50PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 14.04, 12.04 and 10.04 all fail with a "Failed to connect
to socket
> /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused" error (the exact package
> that fails is rsyslog on 10 and 12 and libpam-systemd in 14).
> libguestfs-1.29.29 + supermin 5.1.12 built from source on fedora 21.
[...]
What is happening is that the Ubuntu libpam-systemd package has a
post-install script that tries to communicate with the init system
(which it expects to be running, but isn't running inside the
libguestfs appliance).
I can reproduce this. I still think it's a bug in the Ubuntu dpkg
scripts though ..
Rich.
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3:32 a.m.
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:20:17PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 02:17:50PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 14.04, 12.04 and 10.04 all fail with a "Failed to connect to socket
> > /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused" error (the exact package
> > that fails is rsyslog on 10 and 12 and libpam-systemd in 14).
> > libguestfs-1.29.29 + supermin 5.1.12 built from source on fedora 21.
[...]
> What is happening is that the Ubuntu libpam-systemd package has a
> post-install script that tries to communicate with the init system
> (which it expects to be running, but isn't running inside the
> libguestfs appliance).
I can reproduce this. I still think it's a bug in the Ubuntu dpkg
scripts though ..
Bug or not, I replaced the --update flag with:
--run-command '
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt_opts="-q -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew"
apt-get $apt_opts update
apt-get $apt_opts upgrade ||:
' \
--firstboot-command 'apt-get -f install'
which seems to work around the problem, although Ubuntu gets "stuck"
booting - not sure if it did that before however.
Rich.
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