Lxc 4.0 caused issue with starting container

1

Distro: Arch
LXD/LXC: 3.23/4.0
Kernel: 5.5.12-arch1-1

lxc start <container>

Output (formatted):

Error: Common start logic:
Failed to start device "eth0":
Failed to create the veth interfaces vethec99086b and veth9a2d5cde:
Failed to run: ip link add dev vethec99086b type veth peer name veth9a2d5cde:
Error: Unknown device type.
2

What happens if you run that command by hand?

ip link add dev vethec99086b type veth peer name veth9a2d5cde
3

I get: Error: Unknown device type.

4

Oh god. Apparently I updated my kernel too when I started updating lxc. Maybe this has something to do with it, not sure. After a system reboot, it works just fine now. Sorry about the fuss.

5

Yeah, sounds like you lost the veth.ko module that’s needed for this, causing this error.

6

This just happened to me too, for some reason veth.ko had vanished. Apt reinstalling linux-modules-blah put it back in place. When I reboot the server veth.ko has vanished again >.<

7

That’s very weird.

You may want to install debsums and run debsums -sa on your system.
This should highlight any file that’s missing or has been modified.