From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Helsley Subject: Re: [PATCH] liblxc: lxc-debian expects missing directories Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:59:03 -0800 Message-ID: <1233827943.28338.49.camel@localhost> References: <1233824717.28338.8.camel@localhost> <498AAF77.20906@free.fr> <1233826174.28338.30.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1233826174.28338.30.camel@localhost> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Containers List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 01:29 -0800, Matt Helsley wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 10:20 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > > Matt Helsley wrote: > > > lxc-debian fails unless the directories a given rootfs needs already > > > exist. To fix this without relying on any particular function call order > > > we can do: mkdir -p `dirname PATH/TO/FILE` > > > before actually making the file. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley > > > --- > > > > > Do you have an example on how that happens ? > > Configure lxc with a non-/ prefix: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr This explanation is wrong, sorry. The patch isn't necessary -- take a look at the one that handles debootstrap interruption/failure. Basically debootstrap would fail (apache doesn't exist in lenny I found out) and I'd have to go cleaning up lxc-debian directories by hand before I could retry. If I missed something one time then then lxc behaved oddly. This got me past some of that odd behavior (only to fail later of course). Cheers, -Matt