[Users] Starting CentOS 5.x container... never fully init's

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> I recently converted some physical CentOS 5.x boxen to OpenVZ
> containers. I followed the guide from the OpenVZ Wiki [1].
> 
> When starting these new containers, I'm finding that init is fired
> off, but nothing else is. So, if I 'vzctl start 103', it shows the
> container is started, no problems:
> 
> virtbox1:~# vzctl start 103
> Starting container ...
> Container is mounted
> Setting CPU units: 1000
> Setting CPUs: 1
> Set hostname: pxebox.internal
> File resolv.conf was modified
> Setting quota ugidlimit: 0
> Configure veth devices: veth103.0
> Adding interface veth103.0 to bridge vmbr0 on CT0 for CT103
> Container start in progress...
> 
> However, none of the services or networking have come up. If I 'vzctl
> enter 103' and 'ps aux', here is the output:
> 
> virtbox1:~# vzctl enter 103
> entered into CT 103
> [root at pxebox /]# ps aux
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 1 0.0 0.0 2068 612 ? Ss 20:42 0:00 init [3]
> root 21 0.0 0.0 100 16 ? S 20:42 0:00 [init-logger]
> root 117 0.0 0.1 4652 1328 ? Ss 20:42 0:00 /bin/bash /etc/rc.d/rc 3
> root 121 0.0 0.0 18556 516 ? Ss 20:43 0:00 vzctl: pts/0
> root 122 0.1 0.1 4540 1384 pts/0 Ss 20:43 0:00 -bash
> root 147 0.0 0.0 4256 924 pts/0 R+ 20:43 0:00 ps aux
> 
> It appears init has fired off the appropriate rc runlevel 'rc 3' but
> it simply hangs. Nothing starts, no progress. If I then manually run
> rc.sysinit, then the rc 3 init, everything fires up with no problems:
> 
> [root at pxebox /]# /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> Welcome to CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
> hwclock is unable to get I/O port access: the iopl(3) call failed.
> Setting clock (localtime): Thu Nov 18 20:45:57 CST 2010 [ OK ]
> Loading default keymap (us): /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 396:
> /dev/tty0: No such file or directory
> [FAILED]
> Setting hostname pxebox.fudnet: [ OK ]
> awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `/proc/misc' for reading (No
> such file or directory)
> Checking filesystems
> [ OK ]
> Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ]
> Enabling local filesystem quotas: [ OK ]
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 793: /dev/urandom: Operation not permitted
> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ]
> 
> [root at pxebox /]# /etc/rc.d/rc 3
> Applying Intel CPU microcode update: FATAL: Could not load
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-4-pve/modules.dep: No such file or directory
> /etc/rc3.d/S00microcode_ctl: microcode device /dev/cpu/microcode
> doesn't exist?
> Starting background readahead: [ OK ]
> Checking for hardware changes [ OK ]
> Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
> Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
> Starting auditd: [FAILED]
> Starting system logger: [ OK ]
> Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]
> Starting irqbalance: [ OK ]
> Starting system message bus: [ OK ]
> Mounting other filesystems: [ OK ]
> Starting HAL daemon: [ OK ]
> Starting autofs: Loading autofs4: [FAILED]
> [FAILED]
> Starting sshd: [ OK ]
> Starting xinetd: [ OK ]
> Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: [ OK ]
> Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
> Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
> Starting crond: [ OK ]
> Starting anacron: [ OK ]
> Starting atd: [ OK ]
> 
> Any ideas why this is happening? What is different about my
> interactive login to manually fire off the rc scripts versus the
> automated execution by init?
> 
> [1] http://wiki.openvz.org/Physical_to_container


Turn off everything that doesn't start up properly as most everything there isn't needed in a container.  Are you trying to use ntp as well?  If so, turn that off too.

See if that helps.

Also there aren't any virtual consoles in a container so maybe it is getting stuck trying to start those up.  On newer distros that use upstart, I have to remove the events for the ttys.  I'm don't recall how to stop that in CentOS.  I would think /etc/inittab?  Since the instructions say to disable some services that are useless in a container, and you seem to have many of them still on... perhaps you missed one or more steps.

TYL,
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