[CRIU] Cannot restore from regular user when RPC service running as root

[Ruslan Kuprieiev]

Hi Jason,

That's probably an old log left from running as root.
Could you show us your log path and ls -la logfile.log ?
Btw, providing full logs is a good idea too =)

Thanks,
Ruslan

On 01/12/2015 10:09 PM, Jason L. Turner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m currently working on a project where a program is needed to be
> dumped and restored by a regular user, not as root.
>
> On the webpage it mentions running a CRIU service as root will allow it
> to work on behalf of a regular.  The program I have written has been
> using the CRIU C API and while the program is dumping and restoring
> successfully when run from the root user, it is not the case when
> running as a regular user as upon trying to restore the programs state
> it fails.
>
> The error that I have been receiving in the restore log file is
>
>                  Error (include/util.h :51): Can’t write to img file:
> Operation Not Permitted
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
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