Re: [Vserver] Host and guest compatability

From: Jim Wight <j.k.wight_at_ncl.ac.uk>
Date: Sat 12 Aug 2006 - 17:41:14 BST
Message-Id: <1155400874.7671.3.camel@jkwight.at.home>

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 16:39 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:46:04PM +0100, Jim Wight wrote:
> > To what extent do the host and the guest have to be compatible? I'm
> > getting this when trying to start a Fedora Core 5 guest on an FC4 host:
> >
> > # vserver fc5 start
> > /usr/bin/env: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /usr/bin/env)
> >
> > An error occured while executing the vserver startup sequence; when
> > there are no other messages, it is very likely that the init-script
> > (/etc/rc.d/rc 3) failed.
> >
> > Common causes are:
> > * /etc/rc.d/rc on Fedora Core 1 and RH9 fails always; the 'apt-rpm' build
> > method knows how to deal with this, but on existing installations,
> > appending 'true' to this file will help.
> >
> >
> > Failed to start vserver 'fc5'
> >
> >
> > FC5 has glibc 2.4 whereas FC4 has glibc 2.3. Is that really the problem,
> > or is the message a side-effect of some other problem?
>
> please provide the output of
>
> - testme.sh
> - vserver-info - SYSINFO

# ./testme.sh
Linux-VServer Test [V0.15] Copyright (C) 2003-2006 H.Poetzl
chcontext is working.
chbind is working.
Linux 2.6.14.3-vs2.0.1 #2 SMP Wed Dec 21 13:27:04 GMT 2005 i686
Ea 0.30.210 273/glibc (DSa) <v13,net>
VCI: 0002:0001 273 03000016 (TbLgnP)

---
[000]# succeeded.
[001]# succeeded.
[011]# succeeded.
[031]# succeeded.
[101]# succeeded.
[102]# succeeded.
[201]# succeeded.
[202]# succeeded.
# vserver-info - SYSINFO
Versions:
                   Kernel: 2.6.14.3-vs2.0.1
                   VS-API: 0x00020001
             util-vserver: 0.30.210; Jul 30 2006, 16:42:24
Features:
                       CC: gcc, gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)
                      CXX: g++, g++ (GCC) 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)
                 CPPFLAGS: ''
                   CFLAGS: '-g -O2 -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -W -funit-at-a-time'                 CXXFLAGS: '-g -O2 -ansi -Wall -pedantic -W -fmessage-length=0 -funit-at-a-time'
               build/host: i686-pc-linux-gnu/i686-pc-linux-gnu
             Use dietlibc: yes
       Build C++ programs: yes
       Build C99 programs: yes
           Available APIs: v13,net
            ext2fs Source: e2fsprogs
    syscall(2) invocation: alternative
      vserver(2) syscall#: 273/glibc
Paths:
                   prefix: /addon/local/util-vserver/0.30.210
        sysconf-Directory: /addon/local/util-vserver/etc
            cfg-Directory: /addon/local/util-vserver/etc/vservers
         initrd-Directory: $(sysconfdir)/init.d
       pkgstate-Directory: /addon/local/util-vserver/var/run/vservers
          vserver-Rootdir: /vservers
Jim
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