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Author: Mark Hindley
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To: Ryutaroh Matsumoto, 445
Subject: [devuan-dev] bug#445: lxc-start and lxc-execute cause segfault started by non-root and completely unusable
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 10:16:05AM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> Package: lxc
> Version: 1:3.1.0+really3.0.3-8
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable


Thanks.

> On a Devuan Beowulf (running on qemu-kvm), as root I can use the lxc package
> with no problem. Thank you. As root, "lxc-start -F -n beowulf" works fine
> in the below qemu-kvm image.
>
> But when lxc-execute or lxc-start is run by a non-root user, they always give
> segmentation fault and are completely unsable (screenshot attached).
> One of claimed advantages of lxc is to allow non-root users to use containers,
> but Devuan users cannot enjoy it...


Is this different behaviour than when running on a Debian host? Devuan doesn't
fork lxc and uses Debian's packages directly.

Does your unprivileged user have write access to cgroups? That appears to be a
common cause of this from a quick internet search.

Mark