(I'm including Micah Anderson, maintainer of util-vserver in the Cc: in the hope that maybe the symptoms mentioned here may ring a bell with him. I hope you don't mind Micah.)
Dan Gardner wrote on Feb 18 :
I experienced similar behaviour, however I saw different results when using "vserver foo start" and when using "/etc/init.d/util-vserver start", with only the latter exhibiting the problem. The problem appears to be caused by secure-mount segfaulting (as you can see in your logs) when mounting /dev/pts. Changing the vserver's fstab file to include the options "rw,noexec,nosuid" for the devpts entry seems to fix the problem. Here's the entry from my fstab in case it helps anybody: none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
I checked the kernel's changelog and there doesn't seem to be no mention of changing anything related to vserver (there is a xen change though - no idea if it touches common infrastructure).
However the util-vserver changelog mentions as of release 0.30.216~r2842-1 (which is in "sid" only) the removal of several secure-mount /dev related patches [1]. Since I am on lenny I still have the older 0.30.216~r2772-6 release of util-vserver. Don't know if the problems we see have anything to do with the code touched by those patches.
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