Re: upgrading to jessie on container with old kernel
Brian May dijo [Sat, May 02, 2015 at 09:39:50AM +0000]:
> Hello,
>
> If I upgrade a Jessie openvz container on my proxmox box, systemd fails to
> start up. This is no surprise, the kernel seems to be rather old:
>
> root@scrooge:/# uname -a
> Linux scrooge 2.6.32-26-pve #1 SMP Mon Oct 14 08:22:20 CEST 2013 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> Obviously, I should have set things up not to install systemd before I did
> the upgrade. However, I want to fix this container. So, lets try:
> (...)
> For this particular case, when reproduced today, the solution seems to be
> simple:
>
> ln -sf /bin/true /bin/systemctl
> apt-get remove systemd-sysv
>
> Is this the thing I should be filling bug reports about?
Hi,
I know your report is WRT OpenVZ containers. I believe this to be
useful, anyway, as the root causes are the same: I upgraded during the
past few days a number of LXC containers (and have several more
pending to upgrade).
https://wiki.debian.org/LXC#Incompatibility_with_systemd
In short, you have to install sysvinit-core in your container-based
systems, as the host does not have the needed bits to run systemd.
Once that package is installed, your containers will run just
fine. And if you forgot to install it and upgraded only to find your
systems not starting up, you can chroot and install it.
Hope this is useful!
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