Hi,
this is about this base problem users of LXD encounter again and again with different storages when they try to start their containers, maybe just “out of nothing” or after a migration or update of lxd:
ERROR dir - storage/dir.c:dir_mount:198 - No such file or directory - Failed to mount "/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers/XXX/rootfs" on "/var/snap/lxd/common/lxc/"
lxc lxc1101-1304 20191206172015.198 ERROR conf - conf.c:lxc_mount_rootfs:1353 - Failed to mount rootfs "/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers/XXX/rootfs" onto "/var/snap/lxd/common/lxc/" with options "(null)"
The way to solve it:
- save the whole directory of the container ( […]/containers/$container ) somewhere
- delete $container
- putback your backup of the whole directory into ( […]/containers/$container )
- run lxd import $container
And your container will start working again.
Since i would prefere to find the real cause of these problems ( and not start to think about how to automate this workaround ), my question would be:
What exactly does lxd import do ? And any idea why it solves this kind of problems without doing absolute anything to the container files ( that could fix permission errors based in the container files ).
Thank you !