Hi all,
I need some help compiling ‘liblxc’ for my troubleshooting.
Background:
I am having issue with lxc in OpenMandriva. If I try to create a container, I get error as below.
[sv@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ lxc-create -n test -t download
lxc-create: symbol lookup error: lxc-create: undefined symbol: lxc_is_valid_storage_type
I have gone through lxc introduction, Stéphane Graber’s blog series, Debian and Arch wikis for lxc. While I do not understand everythng, I do have working lxc on Arch and MX Linux. So, my configurations are OK (to the best of my knowledge). The above error is specific to current distro and I decided to compile the software to test and if successful, raise a ticket with the distribution to fix the package.
While I was able to compile lxc, it did not fix the above issue.
Although I could not get any exact match for the error lxc_is_valid_storage_type, I have seen some errors related to various undefined symbol. On one such discussion, issue #3266, @stgraber suggests (re)compiling liblxc.
When I checked back, there was indeed no liblxc.so.1 after my compile of lxc (inside a docker). And if I tried lxc-ls --version it shows error saying something like, ‘unable to find shared library liblxc.so.1’.
Add to this, I saw a peculiarity in lxc’s version reporting in my distro. dnf info lxc would report version 6.0.4 while lxc-info --version reports version 4.0.6. On further check found the lib64lxc1 package is at version 4.0.6 meaning the version reported by binaries is from library file?
[sv@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ dnf info lxc
Last metadata expiration check: 0:48:24 ago on Friday 27 June 2025 10:52:02 PM.
Installed Packages
Name : lxc
Version : 6.0.4
Release : 1
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 6.8 M
Source : lxc-6.0.4-1.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : rock-x86_64
Summary : Linux Containers
URL : https://lxc.sourceforge.net
License : LGPLv2
Description : The package "lxc" provides the command lines to create and manage
: containers. It contains a full featured container with the isolation
: / virtualization of the pids, the ipc, the utsname, the mount points,
: /proc, /sys, the network and it takes into account the control groups.
: It is very light, flexible, and provides a set of tools around the
: container like the monitoring with asynchronous events notification,
: or the freeze of the container. This package is useful to create
: Virtual Private Server, or to run isolated applications like bash or
: sshd.
[sv@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ lxc-info --version
4.0.6
[sv@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ dnf info lib64lxc1
Last metadata expiration check: 0:48:40 ago on Friday 27 June 2025 10:52:02 PM.
Installed Packages
Name : lib64lxc1
Epoch : 1
Version : 4.0.6
Release : 2
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 815 k
Source : lxc-4.0.6-2.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : rock-x86_64
Summary : Library for LXC
URL : http://lxc.sourceforge.net
License : LGPLv2
Description : Library for the Linux Kernel Containers.
So now, back to my request, 
how to compile ‘liblxc’? I do not see it in the lxc repo whereas in the discussion I referred above, @stgraber says,
liblxc(liblxc.so,liblxc.so.1) comes from this repository…
Please guide me on this.