Bug#808222: /usr/bin/systemd-nspawn: systemd-nspawn --link-journal=host fails when the directoy exists

[Matthias Urlichs]

Package: systemd-container
Version: 227-2
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/systemd-nspawn

systemd-nspawn --link-journal=host should accept an existing directory.

root at iron:~# systemctl start systemd-nspawn at foo
[ everything works ]
root at iron:~# systemctl stop systemd-nspawn at foo
root at iron:~# systemctl status -l systemd-nspawn at foo
● systemd-nspawn at foo.service - Container foo
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-nspawn at .service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/systemd-nspawn at .service.d
           └─smurf.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Do 2015-12-17 13:00:33 CET; 7s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-nspawn(1)
  Process: 12750 ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemd-nspawn --quiet --network-bridge=br0 --network-veth-extra=vb-%i:host443 --keep-unit --boot --link-journal=host --directory=/d/vm/%i --bind=/var/cache (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 12750 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Status: "Terminating..."

Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: Starting Container foo...
Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd-nspawn[12750]: mount(/d/vm/foo/sys/fs/selinux) failed, ignoring: No such file or directory
Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd-nspawn[12750]: mount(/d/vm/foo/sys/fs/selinux) failed, ignoring: Invalid argument
Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd-nspawn[12750]: /etc/localtime is not a symlink, not updating container timezone.
Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd-nspawn[12750]: Failed to create /var/log/journal/15bfd317d6044649beb2e509acfd0cac: File exists
Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn at foo.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: Failed to start Container foo.
Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn at foo.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn at foo.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
root at iron:~# ls -l /var/log/journal/15bfd317d6044649beb2e509acfd0cac
total 8192
-rw-r-----+ 1 root netdev 8388608 Jan 18  2015 system.journal
root at iron:~# rm -r /var/log/journal/15bfd317d6044649beb2e509acfd0cac
root at iron:~# systemctl start systemd-nspawn at foo
[ everything works ]
root at iron:~# 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd-container depends on:
ii  libblkid1        2.25.2-6
ii  libbz2-1.0       1.0.6-7+b3
ii  libc6            2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcap2          1:2.24-8
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.45.0-1+b1
ii  libgcrypt20      1.6.3-2
ii  liblzma5         5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  libseccomp2      2.1.1-1
ii  libselinux1      2.3-2
ii  systemd          227-2
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

systemd-container recommends no packages.

systemd-container suggests no packages.

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