** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1478578 Title: "overlay" fs type not mountable in unprivileged containers Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: The "overlay" fstype is not mountable from within non-init user namespaces in wily. This is a regression wrt vivid and is causing LXC adt failures: https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/wily-adt-lxc/lastBuild/ To reproduce, assuming you have an unprivileged LXC container named u1: $ lxc-clone -s u1 u2 $ lxc-start -n u2 --logfile=lxc.out --logpriority=DEBUG Starting u2 will fail, with the following in lxc.out: lxc-start 1438006183.232 ERROR bdev - bdev.c:overlayfs_mount:2253 - Operation not permitted - overlayfs: error mounting /home/ubuntu/.local/share/lxc/u1/rootfs onto /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/lxc options upperdir=/home/ubuntu/.local/share/lxc/u2/delta0,lowerdir=/home/ubuntu/.local/share/lxc/u1/rootfs,workdir=/home/ubuntu/.local/share/lxc/u2/olwork To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1478578/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp