I'm on current xenial, lxd version is 0.23, which you confirmed had this issue:
$ lxc --version 0.23 I created a wily and xenial container: $ lxc launch images:ubuntu/wily/amd64 w1 $ lxc launch images:ubuntu/xenial/amd64 x1 "lxc stop" works for both w1 and x1. When I follow (-f) the journal in a container with $ lxc exec x1 -- journalctl -f before "stop", it starts with Dec 01 05:47:43 w1 systemd[1]: Received SIGPWR. Dec 01 05:47:43 w1 systemd[1]: Failed to reset devices.list on /lxc/w1/system.slice/sigpwr-container-shutdown.service: Permission denied Dec 01 05:47:43 w1 systemd[1]: Starting Shut down containers on SIGPWR... and then a lot of shutdown messages. I suppose your journal output in comment #6 was from *after* you did "lxc stop"? If not, please re-send it. Let's check for you that everything is in place. Can you please copy&paste the output of $ lxc exec test -- ls -l /lib/systemd/system/sigpwr.target.wants/sigpwr- container-shutdown.service /lib/systemd/system/sigpwr-container- shutdown.service $ lxc exec test -- systemd-detect-virt and then *after* running "lxc stop", the output of $ lxc exec test -- systemctl status -l sigpwr-container-shutdown.service Thanks! ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1519499 Title: [systemd] SIGPWR doesn't always lead to shutdown Status in lxd package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is a follow-up on this issue here: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1336 I cannot stop a LXD container gently and as it seems the issue lies within ubuntu/systemd which does not handle SIGPWR correctly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1519499/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp