[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#869892: Using sysv, lxc-start fails while trying to create cgroup

[Jean-Michel Vourgère]

> > I finally had it working by adding
> > "cgroup  /sys/fs/cgroup  cgroup  defaults  0   0"
> > to my /etc/fstab
> > 
> > A little note in /usr/share/doc or elsewhere would be nice.
> 
> This is why liblxc1 has a "Depends: cgroupfs-mount | systemd", as
> cgroupfs-mount should be used to mount cgroupfs on non-systemd systems.
> (I say should, as it is perfectly fine to do it otherwise, just
> cgroupfs-mount is what we have tested).
> 
> I guess in your case the systemd binary is installed (but not used as
> init) and thus the dependency did not trigger?

Exactly. cgroupfs-mount was not installed and installing it fixed my issue.

Maybe the dependency could be adjusted?
What about
	Depends: cgroupfs-mount | systemd-sysv
?

When you install sysvinit-core, systemd-sysv gets removed. And vice-versa.
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