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[Stéphane Graber <stgraber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We're not going to fix this in LXC as the failure is obviously intended.

However with lxcfs we can now render /proc/swaps in a more consistent
way, including hiding swap for containers which shouldn't have any swap
access.

** Changed in: lxc (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  lxc & swapoff: Not superuser

Status in lxc package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  inside the container during poweroff process i get such error:

   * Deactivating swap...
  swapoff: Not superuser.                    [fail]

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  root@relay1:~# lsb_release -rd
  Description: Ubuntu 11.10
  Release: 11.10

  root@relay1:~# apt-cache policy lxc
  lxc:
    Installed: 0.7.5-0ubuntu8.3
    Candidate: 0.7.5-0ubuntu8.3
    Version table:
   *** 0.7.5-0ubuntu8.3 0
          500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       0.7.5-0ubuntu8 0
          500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  root@relay1:~# lxc-start -n sbc

  Ubuntu 11.10 sbc /dev/console

  sbc login: root
  Password:
  Last login: Sat Feb 11 10:52:03 UTC 2012 on tty1
  Welcome to Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-15-server x86_64)

   * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/serverguide/C
  root@sbc:~# poweroff

  Broadcast message from root@sbc
          (/dev/console) at 14:05 ...

  The system is going down for power off NOW!
  root@sbc:~#  * Asking all remaining processes to terminate...            [ OK ]
   * All processes ended within 1 seconds....                              [ OK ]
   * Deconfiguring network interfaces...                                   [ OK ]
   * Deactivating swap...                                                         swapoff: Not superuser.
                                                                           [fail]
   * Unmounting weak filesystems...                                        [ OK ]
  umount: /var/run: not mounted
  mount: / is busy
   * Will now halt

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