Package: systemd-container Version: 227-2 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/systemd-nspawn
systemd-nspawn --link-journal=host should accept an existing directory. root@iron:~# systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foo [ everything works ] root@iron:~# systemctl stop systemd-nspawn@foo root@iron:~# systemctl status -l systemd-nspawn@foo ● systemd-nspawn@foo.service - Container foo Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-nspawn@.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/systemd-nspawn@.service.d └─smurf.conf Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Do 2015-12-17 13:00:33 CET; 7s ago Docs: man:systemd-nspawn(1) Process: 12750 ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemd-nspawn --quiet --network-bridge=br0 --network-veth-extra=vb-%i:host443 --keep-unit --boot --link-journal=host --directory=/d/vm/%i --bind=/var/cache (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 12750 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Status: "Terminating..." Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: Starting Container foo... Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd-nspawn[12750]: mount(/d/vm/foo/sys/fs/selinux) failed, ignoring: No such file or directory Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd-nspawn[12750]: mount(/d/vm/foo/sys/fs/selinux) failed, ignoring: Invalid argument Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd-nspawn[12750]: /etc/localtime is not a symlink, not updating container timezone. Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd-nspawn[12750]: Failed to create /var/log/journal/15bfd317d6044649beb2e509acfd0cac: File exists Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn@foo.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: Failed to start Container foo. Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn@foo.service: Unit entered failed state. Dez 17 13:00:33 iron systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn@foo.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. root@iron:~# ls -l /var/log/journal/15bfd317d6044649beb2e509acfd0cac total 8192 -rw-r-----+ 1 root netdev 8388608 Jan 18 2015 system.journal root@iron:~# rm -r /var/log/journal/15bfd317d6044649beb2e509acfd0cac root@iron:~# systemctl start systemd-nspawn@foo [ everything works ] root@iron:~# -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages systemd-container depends on: ii libblkid1 2.25.2-6 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b3 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libcap2 1:2.24-8 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.45.0-1+b1 ii libgcrypt20 1.6.3-2 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 ii libseccomp2 2.1.1-1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii systemd 227-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 systemd-container recommends no packages. systemd-container suggests no packages. -- no debconf information