Problem with hostname on LXC

[eugeniopacheco]

Hi,

I know this is an old topic, but from openvz to LXC somethings seems to have changed. I'm running a VM on CentOS 6.7 inside Proxmox 4 and I'm having a little problem with cPanel running inside that VM. By the way, I have imported that VM from OpenVZ running on Proxmox 3.4.

My configuration is as follows:

root@ovh1:/usr/share/perl5/PVE/LXC/Setup# cat /etc/pve/lxc/100.conf
arch: amd64
cpulimit: 4
cpuunits: 1024
hostname: hosting.mydomain.com
memory: 4096
net0: bridge=vmbr0,hwaddr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx,name=eth0,type=veth
onboot: 1
ostype: centos
rootfs: cbrasovz:subvol-100-disk-1,size=150G
swap: 12288

When I start my VM, here's what I get:

root@hosting [/]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
# Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment.
# 127.0.1.1 hosting
::1 localhost
127.0.1.1 hosting
x.x.x.x hosting.mydomain.com

root@hosting [/]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=hosting
GATEWAY=x.x.x.x

As said above, I'm using cPanel, which unfortunatelly requires hostname to be FQDN. Is it possible to bypass the settings of LXC in order to get it to write a hostname that's FQDN?

Thanks in advance, and I'm very sorry if it's a repeated post, but I couldn't find any on new Proxmox.

Best regards,

Eugenio Pacheco

 

[dietmar]

So the problem is that /etc/sysconfig/network requires a FQDN?

 

[eugeniopacheco]

Hi,

Actually I'm not sure as to how cPanel works, but I do know that even hostname -f doesn't seem to be working as expected with the presented configuration.

root@hosting [~]# hostname -f
hosting

root@hosting [~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
GATEWAY=x.x.x.x

HOSTNAME=hosting
DOMAINNAME=domain.com

root@hosting [~]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
# Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment.
# 127.0.1.1 hosting
::1 localhost
127.0.1.1 localhost hosting
y.y.y.y hosting.domain.com hosting

I also noticed another problem after converting from OpenVZ to LXC. Everytime I need to start the VM twice in order for it to boot correctly:

root@ovh1:~# pct start 100
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 344 The container failed to start.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 346 To get more details, run the container in foreground mode.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 348 Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
root@ovh1:~# pct start 100
root@ovh1:~#

root@ovh1:~# lxc-start -n 100 -F
lxc-start: conf.c: instantiate_veth: 2643 failed to create veth pair (veth100i0 and veth0JO0IF): File exists
lxc-start: conf.c: lxc_create_network: 2960 failed to create netdev
lxc-start: start.c: lxc_spawn: 920 failed to create the network
lxc-start: start.c: __lxc_start: 1172 failed to spawn '100'
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 344 The container failed to start.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 348 Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
root@ovh1:~# lxc-start -n 100 -F
Starting udev: /sbin/start_udev: line 269: /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug: Read-only file system
[ OK ]
Just to bring more information, I'm running this proxmox server on OVH and not on vRack, so my network configuration is:
net0: bridge=vmbr0,hwaddr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx,name=eth0,ty pe=veth

Best regards,

Eugenio Pacheco

 

[dietmar]

root@ovh1:~# lxc-start -n 100 -F
lxc-start: conf.c: instantiate_veth: 2643 failed to create veth pair (veth100i0 and veth0JO0IF): File exists

Strange. Does those devices exist after stopping the container? Please check with

# cat /proc/net/dev

 

[eugeniopacheco]

Hi,

Before stopping:

root@ovh1:~# cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
veth100i0: 22301453 185953 0 0 0 0 0 0 85952035 867027 0 0 0 0 0 0
veth101i0: 338605015 287578 0 0 0 0 0 0 45660741 403756 0 0 0 0 0 0
veth102i0: 1091581107 540896 0 0 0 0 0 0 123210275 943243 0 0 0 0 0 0
veth103i0: 6176656 47588 0 0 0 0 0 0 83833976 1174511 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 157766893703 122324997 0 2021 0 0 0 135967 3804547245 23492755 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
lo: 141017619 274509 0 0 0 0 0 0 141017619 274509 0 0 0 0 0 0
vmbr0: 150400381042 21500915 0 0 0 0 0 0 1494273131 19458085 0 0 0 0 0 0

After stopping:

root@ovh1:~# cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
veth100i0: 22534992 188858 0 0 0 0 0 0 86968877 880758 0 0 0 0 0 0
veth101i0: 340517174 289057 0 0 0 0 0 0 45998929 406039 0 0 0 0 0 0
veth102i0: 1095711561 542143 0 0 0 0 0 0 123456518 946055 0 0 0 0 0 0
veth103i0: 6179420 47633 0 0 0 0 0 0 83874640 1175130 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 157768459778 122343301 0 2023 0 0 0 136120 3810989473 23500857 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
lo: 141017619 274509 0 0 0 0 0 0 141017619 274509 0 0 0 0 0 0
vmbr0: 150400435778 21501994 0 0 0 0 0 0 1494281289 19458142 0 0 0 0 0 0

Looks like they do exist even after stopping the container. Do I need to assign each VM with a different net device? net0, net1, net2? If so, my mistake. I put them all with net0.

 

[dietmar]

Looks like they do exist even after stopping the container.

Looks like a bug to me. Please can you file a bug report at bugzilla.proxmox.com?

 

[eugeniopacheco]

Hi,

It has been submited: Bugzilla – Bug 772 Submitted.

As to the hostname problem, any idea on how to fix it?

Best regards,

Eugenio Pacheco

 

[kotakomputer]

Try this, inside your VPS:

#hostname hosting.domain.com

Then edit /etc/sysconfig/network:

HOSTNAME=hosting
DOMAINNAME=domain.com

Change to:

HOSTNAME=hosting.domain.com

 

[dietmar]

We made a fix here:

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-container.git;a=commitdiff;h=ead433af1ca18a13aafa3e53d64f0efb06ee9699