LXC Issues

After upgrade guest system from Debian 12.0 to 12.1.

lxc-start -lDEBUG -o error.log -F -n <ContainerID>

unsupported debian version '12.1'

PVE (pve-container) needs upgrade.

BalenaOS Build inside privileged LXC:

docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: apply caps: operation not permitted: unknown.

Solution (not secure!):

lxc.apparmor.profile: unconfined
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: a
lxc.cap.drop:

Source: https://danthesalmon.com/running-docker-on-proxmox/

see below

Debian Bullseye in unprivileged container:

systemd[579]: systemd-logind.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/proc: Permission denied
systemd[579]: systemd-logind.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /lib/systemd/systemd-logind: Permission denied

SOLUTION: enable container nesting.

Container works, responds to pings but it is not possible to SSH or attach.

Normal commands to stop or reboot doesn't help (even lxc-stop -k).

CAUSE: Container was freezed for snapshot. All processess are in 'D' state. Cannot be killed. SOLUTION:

echo THAWED > /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/lxc/200/freezer.state

Info:

• Freezer subsystem
• https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.html
• Freezing of tasks

So killing container is solution:

pstree -p
 
           ├─lxc-start(3747487)───systemd(3747514)─┬─agetty(3748048)
           │                                       ├─agetty(3748049)
 
kill -9 3747514

Now it is not possible to start LXC container again. Debugging:

lxc-start -o lxc-start.log -lDEBUG -F -n 200
cat lxc-start.log
 
lxc-start 200 20210325085035.665 INFO     conf - conf.c:run_script_argv:331 - Executing script "/usr/share/lxc/hooks/lxc-pve-prestart-hook" for container "200", config section "lxc"
lxc-start 200 20210325085036.126 DEBUG    conf - conf.c:run_buffer:303 - Script exec /usr/share/lxc/hooks/lxc-pve-prestart-hook 200 lxc pre-start produced output: failed to remove directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls/lxc/200/ns': Device or resource busy

Reason: after killing container systemd, orphaned cgroups left.

find /sys/fs/cgroup/*/lxc/200 -depth -type d -print -delete
 
# Lot of errors:
find: cannot delete ‘/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/lxc/200’: Device or resource busy

All processess from container 200 are in 'D' state Uninterruptible Sleep

ps axl | awk '$10 ~ /D/'

echo w > /proc/sysrq_trigger
 
[587314.999001] smbd            D    0 1181293  42630 0x00004184
[587314.999002] Call Trace:
[587314.999004]  __schedule+0x2e6/0x6f0
[587314.999005]  schedule+0x33/0xa0
[587314.999007]  __refrigerator+0x44/0x160
[587314.999009]  get_signal+0x814/0x850
[587314.999011]  do_signal+0x34/0x6e0
[587314.999013]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[587314.999014]  ? __audit_syscall_exit+0x236/0x290
[587314.999016]  exit_to_usermode_loop+0x90/0x130
[587314.999018]  do_syscall_64+0x160/0x190
[587314.999020]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

So it looks like whole container cgroup was freezed for snapshot and problem happens.

Gitlab runner fails to start docker executor:

ERROR: Job failed (system failure): prepare environment: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:367: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:495: container init caused: process_linux.go:458: setting cgroup config for procHooks process caused: failed to write "2400000": write /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/docker/af4fd93c304a3edc9edb85da6f7a7f9ec85a15262db37393a22141686647d060/cpu.cfs_quota_us: invalid argument: unknown (exec.go:57:0s). Check https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/shells/index.html#shell-profile-loading for more information

Reason: cpulimit was set on container in PVE Reproduction:

# works:
docker run -it busybox
 
# problem:
docker run --cpuset-cpus='0' --cpus=1 --cpu-shares=256 -it busybox

Inside LXC CT: Long ssh login delay, lots of errors in journal

# journalctl
gru 28 08:18:48 hostname systemd[860]: systemd-logind.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/proc: Permission denied
gru 28 08:18:54 hostname nmbd[106]:   This response was from IP 192.168.12.45, reporting an IP address of 172.16.0.131.
gru 28 08:19:02 hostname systemd[866]: systemd-logind.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/proc: Permission denied
gru 28 08:19:10 hostname sshd[783]: pam_systemd(sshd:session): Failed to create session: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
gru 28 08:19:14 hostname systemd[877]: systemd-logind.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/proc: Permission denied