Can't find old containers

cubiae · September 21, 2020, 7:43am

was interested in containers a long time ago, have a zfs pool setup “/var/lib/lxd/storage-pools/tank/containers”
has all all the relevant containers

but “lxc list” comes up empty

is there any way to get them back up and running?

stgraber · September 21, 2020, 1:19pm

Can you show:

dpkg -l | grep lxd
snap list

Maybe you have both installed and need to run migration.

cubiae · September 22, 2020, 8:19am

saibal@cs40Docker:~$ dpkg -l | grep lxd
ii lxd 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 Container hypervisor based on LXC - daemon
ii lxd-client 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 Container hypervisor based on LXC - client

saibal@cs40Docker:~$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core 16-2.46.1 9993 latest/stable canonical✓ core
core18 20200724 1885 latest/stable canonical✓ base
lxd 4.6 17320 latest/stable canonical✓ -

root@cs40Docker:/var/lib/lxd/storage-pools/tank/containers# ls
cs41Samba cs42Gateway cs47VPN cs48DNS cs49Scrapy cs50Etherium

The below is a new pool, but still wondering how to get the old ones (above) up and running

root@cs40Docker:/var/lib/lxd/storage-pools/tankmk2/containers# ls
bionic

saibal@cs40Docker:/var/lib/lxd$ lxc list
±-------±--------±-----±-----±-----------±----------+
| NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | TYPE | SNAPSHOTS |
±-------±--------±-----±-----±-----------±----------+
| bionic | STOPPED | | | PERSISTENT | 0 |
±-------±--------±-----±-----±-----------±----------+

stgraber · September 22, 2020, 1:44pm

Ok, cool, so you do have both.

Can you show:

/usr/bin/lxc list
/snap/bin/lxc list

So we can see which side the data is at and then move it if needed.

cubiae · September 23, 2020, 1:25pm

saibal@cs40Docker:~$ /usr/bin/lxc list
±-------±--------±-----±-----±-----------±----------+
| NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | TYPE | SNAPSHOTS |
±-------±--------±-----±-----±-----------±----------+
| bionic | STOPPED | | | PERSISTENT | 0 |
±-------±--------±-----±-----±-----------±----------+

saibal@cs40Docker:~$ /snap/bin/lxc list
±-----±------±-----±-----±-----±----------+
| NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | TYPE | SNAPSHOTS |
±-----±------±-----±-----±-----±----------+

Thankyou for your persistence its extremely kind

stgraber · September 23, 2020, 1:41pm

Ok, cool, so you need to run lxd.migrate which will move things over to the snap and clean up that previous install for you.