I figured out what's happening. lxc sets up /dev/kmsg as a symlink to /dev/console, init fopens kmsg, and suddenly it owns the console. Not sure whether the fix is to handle kmsg differently or special-case it in upstart to be opened with O_NOCTTY. I'll leave it to Serge and James to figure that out, and in the meantime I'll attend to the kernel patch.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Trusty) Assignee: (unassigned) => Seth Forshee (sforshee) -- 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/1263738 Title: login console 0 in user namespace container is not configured right Status in Upstart: New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “lxc” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “linux” source package in Trusty: Confirmed Status in “lxc” source package in Trusty: Triaged Bug description: When you create a container in a private user namespace, when you start the container without the '-d' flag, that console is not properly set up. Logging in gives you -bash: no job control in this shell and hitting ctrl-c reboots the container. Consoles from 'lxc-console -n $container' behave correctly. This may be a kernel issue, as discussed here: http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc- devel/2013-October/005843.html so also marking this as affecting the kernel. This can be worked around, but really needs to be fixed before trusty is frozen. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/1263738/+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