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

[Ola Lundqvist]

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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