[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#843450: lxc: Corrupt /proc/self/cgroup / Failed to get list of controllers

[Evgeni Golov]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:59:14AM -0600, Kevin Locke wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 09:35 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 02:25:04PM -0600, Kevin Locke wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 10:30 +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> >>> Can you please try systemd 232-3?
> >>> You should not need to pass systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller anymore as the offending change was reverted.
> >> 
> >> I am observing the "PAM-CGFS: Failed to get list of controllers" error
> >> message as well, but not "PAM-CGFS: Corrupt /proc/self/cgroup", on a
> >> system running systemd 233-10, libpam-cgfs 2.0.7-1, and kernel 4.12.
> > 
> > Thanks, can you please try the updated lxcfs/libpam-cgfs from https://people.debian.org/~evgeni/tmp/lxcfs/?
> 
> After installing the linked lxcfs and libpam-cgfs packages and
> rebooting, there are no error messages from PAM-CGFS in the logs and
> my system appears to be working correctly.
> 
> I'm not really sure what libpam-cgfs does.  Are there any functional
> tests that I should do to ensure it is working as expected?

libpam-cgfs is needed to allow you to launch user-owned containers, as it sets up all the cgroups for you.

If you don't use user-containers, than you don't need it.

Cheers
Evgeni