Bug#482974: [Debian] Re: Bug#482974: vzctl: vzctl start fails with "Unable to set capability: Invalid argument"

Ola Lundqvist ola at inguza.com
Sat Jun 7 13:28:57 EDT 2008


Hi Kir

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 06:33:28PM +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> Ola,
> 
> We plan to have it ready in two weeks. The patch that fixes the issue is 
> in git [1] and I suggest you to take it and build a bugfix update to 3.0.22

Thanks a lot! I'll do that at once.

Best regards,

// Ola

> [1] 
> http://git.openvz.org/?p=vzctl;a=commit;h=0d6bfad92c7cb6a193801ce8dac3a0dc64396ca8
> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >Ok, I see. This is a problem on all other platforms than i386. The reason
> >is that they are automatically built. If the kernel information is wrong
> >on the build machine it will get this problem.
> >
> >When is the next release?
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >// Ola
> >
> >On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:47:50PM +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> >  
> >>It's just that vzctl needs a header (capability.h, usually this is 
> >>/usr/include/linux/capability.h) from an older kernel (i.e. pre 2.6.24).
> >>We hope to fix this in the next vzctl release.
> >>
> >>Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> >>    
> >>>Hej Marcus
> >>>
> >>>I'll try to get some comments from upstream about this. I was not
> >>>aware of the build dependency towards the kernel.
> >>>
> >>>Kir or anyone else in the openvz group, can you describe this to me?
> >>>
> >>>Best regards,
> >>>
> >>>// Ola
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:28:25PM +0200, Marcus Better wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>>>Package: vzctl
> >>>>Severity: grave
> >>>>Version: 3.0.22-8
> >>>>
> >>>>This started happening recently:
> >>>>
> >>>>~# vzctl start 107   
> >>>>Starting VE ...              
> >>>>VE is mounted                
> >>>>Unable to set capability: Invalid argument
> >>>>Unable to set capability                  
> >>>>VE start failed                           
> >>>>VE is unmounted 
> >>>>
> >>>>Downgrading temporarily to 3.0.11-13 fixed it, but I believe the
> >>>>problem was introduced in 3.0.22-7. According to upstream it is caused
> >>>>by compiling against a mis-matched version of
> >>>>/usr/include/linux/capability.h.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm running a self-compiled 2.6.24 OpenVZ kernel.
> >>>>
> >>>>-- System Information:
> >>>>Debian Release: lenny/sid
> >>>> APT prefers testing
> >>>> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> >>>>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> >>>>
> >>>>Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-melech (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> >>>>Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> >>>>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>        
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >  
> 
> 

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