Re: [PATCH 0/6][lxc][v3] Link LXC with USERCR

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>]

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Lezcano (dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org):
>> Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
>>> lxc-checkpoint, lxc-restart in the LXC source tree are currently stubs.
>>> Following set of patches, when applied to LXC and built with USERCR as
>>> described below, enable enable lxc-checkpoint and lxc-restart of some
>>> simple containers
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>> 3. Checkpoint/restart a simple LXC container
>>>
>>> 	$ lxc-execute --name foo --rcfile lxc-no-netns.conf -- /bin/sleep 1000
>>>
>>> 	$ lxc-checkpoint --name foo --image /root/lxc-foo.ckpt
>>>
>>> 	$ lxc-stop --name foo
>>>
>>> 	$ lxc-restart --name foo --image /root/lxc-foo.ckpt
>> Finally, using ckpt-v20-dev, I succeeded to checkpoint sleep but
>> when I restart, I got the error:
>>
>> <4534>number of tasks: 2
>> <4534>number of vpids: 0
>> <4534>total tasks (including ghosts): 2
>> <4534>pid 2: inherit sid 0
>> <4534>pid 2: creator set to 1
>> <4534>====== TASKS
>> <4534>	[0] pid 1 ppid 0 sid 0 creator 0
>> <4534>	[1] pid 2 ppid 1 sid 0 creator 1
>> <4534>............
>> <4534>task[0].vidx = -1
>> <4534>task[1].vidx = -1
>> <4534>new pidns with init
>> <4534>forking child vpid 1 flags 0x321
>> <4534>task 1 forking with flags 20020011 numpids 1
>> <4534>task 1 pid[0]=0
>> <4535>====== PIDS ARRAY
>> <4535>[0] pid 1 ppid 0 sid 0 pgid 0
>> <4535>[1] pid 2 ppid 1 sid 0 pgid 0
>> <4535>............
>> Error: /dev/ptmx must be a link to /dev/pts/ptmx
>> <4534>forked child vpid 4536 (asked 1)
>> root task exited status 0
>>
>> What can I do to prevent this error ?
> 
> test -e /dev/pts/ptmx || (echo "Don't go through with the rest of this" && exit)
> rm -f /dev/ptmx
> ln -s /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
> chmod 666 /dev/ptmx

I was able to restart. I will play a bit with it :)

Thanks Serge.