[Debian] Re: Bug#513310: vzctl fails to set capabilities, and subsequently fails to start any VE

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Daniel

Thanks a lot for your information. I'll backport the fix today, upload  
and request unblock to the debian release team.

Best regards,

// Ola

Quoting Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>:

> Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> writes:
>
>> This is caused by newer kernel headers (in this case on a build system
>> that was used to build this vzctl package), and is fixed in
>> vzctl-3.0.23. See the following git commit:
>
> vzctl 3.0.23-2 is available in experimental, so I have installed it and
> tested it on my machine; it addresses the problem and the VE will again
> start.
>
>> So the solution is either to upgrade to vzctl-3.0.23 or to backport
>> this simple fix.
>
> I can confirm that the newer package version resolves the problem.
>
>> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel
>>>
>>> This is interesting as it works very well on my systems. On other
>>> hand that system is a 686 based one.
>>>
>>> You write that you have not significantly changed your system, but at
>>> the same time you write that you are not sure that it has ever worked
>>> with the 2.6.26 kernel.
>
> Sorry, I see I was unclear: I have upgraded to sid, which significantly
> changed the system, but the OpenVZ configuration remained stable.
>
> I thought that the VE had started successfully under 2.6.26 before, but
> could only confirm from my logs that I had used it under 2.6.24.
>
> Sorry for being so unclear, and thankfully Kir has saved me by
> identifying the problem despite my poor communication.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
>
>



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