logging of init doesn't go to console

Thanks for reporting this bug.

Ideally '-- /sbin/init --verbose console=/dev/console' would work (passing the output to /dev/console which is a symbolic link to /dev/lxc/console, which is a bind mount of the proper devpts pty).

When you say

    sudo ln -sf console /var/lib/lxc/${NAME}/rootfs/dev

the source is a relative pathname. This should end up with a link to itself. (it also doesn't work for me) Can you tell me what directory you are in when you do that, and what 'ls -l /var/lib/lxc/quantal-amd64/rootfs/dev' shows for you?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Serge Hallyn wrote:

> When you say
>
> sudo ln -sf console /var/lib/lxc/${NAME}/rootfs/dev
>
> the source is a relative pathname. This should end up with a link to
> itself. (it also doesn't work for me) Can you tell me what directory
> you are in when you do that, and what 'ls -l /var/lib/lxc/quantal-
> amd64/rootfs/dev' shows for you?

Sorry, bad cut and paste.
  sudo ln -sf console /var/lib/lxc/${NAME}/rootfs/dev/kmsg

Ah, thanks, that makes sense.

That seems like a sensible workaround until container syslog is supported.

This bug was fixed in the package lxc - 0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu34

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lxc (0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu34) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Serge Hallyn ]
  * 0214-give-pclose-errno: help debug pclose failures when lxc runs scripts.
  * 0215-lxc-clone-name-arg: fix incorrect checking for --name argument.
    (LP: #1049914)
  * 0216-hook-kmsg-to-console: link /dev/kmsg to /dev/console so init log
    messages can be seen. (LP: #1049926)
  * 0217-lxc-clone-fix-fstab: fix check for lxc.mount in lxc-clone
    (LP: #1049987)
  * 0218-api-shutdown-fix-doublestop: don't call c->stop() when already
    stopped (LP: #1050001)
  * Update lxc-start-container apparmor abstraction to allow ecryptfs mounts
    from the pre-mount script. Remove the instruction to add that line from
    the example hook.
  * Update lxc-start-container apparmor abstraction to allow mounts to paths
    under /var/lib/lxc/$container/, so that pre-mount hooks can stage mounts
    there. Also update the mountecryptfs example premount hook to use that.
    (LP: #1050469)
  * debian/rules: remove parsing of apparmor.in files.

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * Update lxc-start-container apparmor abstraction to allow aufs and overlayfs
    mounts from the pre-mount scripts. This is required by some hooks and will
    be needed by the new lxc-start-ephemeral.
  * Remove multi-arch path in lxc-start-container apparmor abstraction and
    instead just allow /usr/lib/*/lxc/ so nested containers running on a
    different architecture don't get blocked by apparmor.
  * Cherry-pick python-lxc fixes from upstream:
    - Minor PEP-8 syntax fix
    - Return an exception when getting Container instance as non-root
    - Automatically convert any state string passed to wait() to its uppercase
      equivalent.
    - Replace test.py by a full example of the API.
    - Remove zombie handler function from C module as it's no longer required
      and causes weird bugs when used with the hooks.

  [ William Grant ]
  * lxc-start-ephemeral: exit with the command's status, not always 0.
    (LP: #1050351)
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:02:45 -0500