Public bug reported:
Not sure if this is an lxc bug or an ecryptfs bug. Please reassign if
necessary.
I have an unprivileged container that is defined in the default
location, ~/.share/local/lxc. It bind-mounts the host's /home directory
to /home inside the container, like so:
lxc.mount.entry = /home home none bind 0 0
My /home directory contains an ecryptfs at ~/.Private, which is mounted
to ~/Private with default options, at login, via pam_ecryptfs.
lxc-start then results in the following error showing up in the log
file:
lxc-start 20170118124950.117 ERROR lxc_utils - utils.c:safe_mount:1746
- Invalid argument - Failed to mount /home onto
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/home
lxc-start 20170118124950.117 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:mount_entry:1650
- Invalid argument - failed to mount '/home' on
'/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/home'
lxc-start 20170118124950.117 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:lxc_setup:3790 -
failed to setup the mount entries for 'trusty-edx-devstack'
lxc-start 20170118124950.117 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:do_start:826 -
Failed to setup container "trusty-edx-devstack".
lxc-start 20170118124950.117 ERROR lxc_sync - sync.c:__sync_wait:57 -
An error occurred in another process (expected sequence number 3)
lxc-start 20170118124950.118 ERROR lxc_start -
start.c:__lxc_start:1338 - Failed to spawn container "trusty-edx-devstack".
lxc-start 20170118124955.668 ERROR lxc_start_ui -
tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
Unmounting the ecryptfs allows the container to start normally. After
the container has been started, the ecryptfs can be remounted with
ecryptfs-mount-private, which appears to have no ill effect on the
container.
I don't quite see why the mounted ecryptfs would prevent /home from
being bind-mounted into the container. After all, bind-mounting /home to
some other mount point in the host works just fine — with the Private
directory simply being empty, save for the Access-Your-Private-
Data.desktop and README.txt symlinks, in the bind mount location. This
is also what happens in privileged containers whose configuration has
the same lxc.mount.entry.
** Affects: lxc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Unprivileged containers run by non-root fail to start if trying to
bind-mount a directory that contains a mounted ecryptfs
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