Setting up lxc.idmap break webgui monitoring

Sep 28, 2019
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I setup a few LXC containers with idmaps to and now I don't get any running/stopped/summary data in the webgui. The changes I made were:

* Add shared users to /etc/passwd:
Code:
nas-backups:x:5002:5002::/home/nas-backups:/usr/sbin/nologin
nas-plex:x:5005:5005::/home/nas-plex:/usr/sbin/nologin
nas-apt-cache:x:5003:5003::/home/nas-apt-cache:/usr/sbin/nologin

* Add lxc.idmap entries to map ids [5000-5099] to 107.conf
Code:
# uid map: from uid 0 map 5000 uids (in the ct) to the range starting 100000 (on the host), so 0..4999 (ct) → 100000..104999 (host)
lxc.idmap: u 0 100000 5000
lxc.idmap: g 0 100000 5000
# we map 100 uid starting from uid 5000 onto 5000, so 5000 → 5000
lxc.idmap: u 5000 5000 100
lxc.idmap: g 5000 5000 100
# we map the rest of 65535 from 5100 upto 105100, so 5100..65535 → 105100..165535
lxc.idmap: u 5100 105100 60435
lxc.idmap: g 5100 105100 60435

* Allow range to be mapped via subuid/subgid files, each added:
Code:
root:5000:100


After those changes the container boots fine, I can ssh into it and the idmap is in effect. The UI shows "Status: unknown" in the container list and the Summary page just sits with a spinner. I did see the following error in the UI the first boot of the container after adding the idmap:

Code:
can't open '/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/lxc/107/ns/blkio.throttle.io_service_bytes' - No such file or directory (500)
 
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