Hi, Today I’ve been trying to run the not-yet-released Ubuntu 24.04 in LXC container on my Ubuntu 22.04. However, I’m having problems with running newer versions of Ubuntu or Debian. I’m able to start LXC container running Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian Bullseye, but I get the same errors when trying to run Ubuntu 24.04 or current Debian Testing (Trixie). For example, when I try Ubuntu 24.04, I’m able to create the container no problem:
$ sudo lxc-create --name mycontainer --template download -- --dist ubuntu --release noble --arch amd64
Using image from local cache
Unpacking the rootfs
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You just created an Ubuntu noble amd64 (20240326_07:42) container.
To enable SSH, run: apt install openssh-server
No default root or user password are set by LXC.
But I can’t start it:
$ sudo lxc-start -F --name=mycontainer
systemd 255.2-3ubuntu2 running in system mode (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +APPARMOR +IMA +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT -GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CURL +ELFUTILS +FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN +IPTC +KMOD +LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 -PWQUALITY +P11KIT +QRENCODE +TPM2 +BZIP2 +LZ4 +XZ +ZLIB +ZSTD -BPF_FRAMEWORK -XKBCOMMON +UTMP +SYSVINIT default-hierarchy=unified)
Detected virtualization lxc.
Detected architecture x86-64.
Welcome to Ubuntu Noble Numbat (development branch)!
Initializing machine ID from random generator.
Failed to fork off sandboxing environment for executing generators: Protocol error
[!!!!!!] Failed to start up manager.
Exiting PID 1...
Since older versions of Debian/Ubuntu start fine inside LXC, I thought it’s maybe because of the change from cgroups1 to cgroups2? But since my host operating system is Ubuntu 22.04 that shouldn’t be a problem:
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
The checkconfig for LXC shows the following on my system:
sudo lxc-checkconfig
LXC version 5.0.0
Kernel configuration not found at /proc/config.gz; searching...
Kernel configuration found at /boot/config-6.5.0-26-generic
--- Namespaces ---
Namespaces: enabled
Utsname namespace: enabled
Ipc namespace: enabled
Pid namespace: enabled
User namespace: enabled
Network namespace: enabled
--- Control groups ---
Cgroups: enabled
Cgroup namespace: enabled
Cgroup v1 mount points:
Cgroup v2 mount points:
/sys/fs/cgroup
Cgroup v1 systemd controller: missing
Cgroup v1 freezer controller: missing
Cgroup ns_cgroup: required
Cgroup device: enabled
Cgroup sched: enabled
Cgroup cpu account: enabled
Cgroup memory controller: enabled
Cgroup cpuset: enabled
--- Misc ---
Veth pair device: enabled, loaded
Macvlan: enabled, not loaded
Vlan: enabled, not loaded
Bridges: enabled, loaded
Advanced netfilter: enabled, loaded
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE: enabled, not loaded
CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE: enabled, not loaded
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CHECKSUM: enabled, not loaded
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_COMMENT: enabled, not loaded
FUSE (for use with lxcfs): enabled, not loaded
--- Checkpoint/Restore ---
checkpoint restore: enabled
CONFIG_FHANDLE: enabled
CONFIG_EVENTFD: enabled
CONFIG_EPOLL: enabled
CONFIG_UNIX_DIAG: enabled
CONFIG_INET_DIAG: enabled
CONFIG_PACKET_DIAG: enabled
CONFIG_NETLINK_DIAG: enabled
File capabilities:
Note : Before booting a new kernel, you can check its configuration
usage : CONFIG=/path/to/config /usr/bin/lxc-checkconfig
Does anyone by any chance have any hint of an idea what might I be doing wrong? 