[CRIU] does crtools work on ubuntu 14.04

[Pavel Emelyanov]

On 10/13/2015 02:54 PM, Peter Harbo wrote:
> Thanks, Marcos and Pavel.  The crtools version is 0.2 (!!!). Usually Ubuntu is more up-to-date than that.  If I want to use this I will have to build from source.

We have PPA for CRIU:
https://launchpad.net/~criu/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Currently there's the 1.6 version, but we'll update one to 1.7 soon :)

> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Peter Harbo <peter.harbo at gmail.com <mailto:peter.harbo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I apologize if this is the wrong place for this question - criu looked frankly like a dev mailing list to me but I don't know where else to post it.
> 
>     I wanted to checkpoint (dump) a process and restore it later (presumably after a reboot) and discovered that this functionality was added with the checkpoint-restore tools in the crtools package which is presented as a single utility.
> 
>     I tried
>     crtools dump -t 3916
>     Error (ptrace.c:75): Unseizeable non-zombie 3916 found, state S
>     and assumed the user needed permissions I didn't have. Then I tried
> 
>     sudo crtools dump -t 3916
>     Can't open self pagemapError (parasite-syscall.c:257): Parasite exited with 1
>     Error (parasite-syscall.c:577): Dumping pages failed with 1
>     Error (cr-dump.c:1506): Can't dump pages (pid: 3916) with parasite
> 
>     Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work? (Running ubuntu 14.04)
> 
>     The process in question is
> 
>       grep foo
> 
>     and waiting for standard input.  I looked through the doc and it didn't correspond to the conditions which should cause a failure.  I installed crtools from the ubuntu repository.  I looked on ubuntuforums.org <http://ubuntuforums.org> and couldn't find any comments about this.
> 
>     Peter Harbo.
> 
> 
> 
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