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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-14.12

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346734

Title:
  Unprivileged LXC containers don't work under systemd

Status in “systemd” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  With systemd 208, unprivileged containers stop working when running
  under systemd (working fine under upstart with cgmanager). Quoting
  Stephane Graber:

  In this setup, things don't work nearly as well. On login I'm only
  placed into the name=systemd cgroup and not in any of the others, which
  means that unprivileged LXC isn't usable.

  Martin suggested setting JoinControllers in /etc/systemd/system.conf but
  upon closer inspection, this isn't at all what we want. This setting is
  used to tell systemd what controllers to co-mount, by default this is
  set to cpu,cpuset (which caused the earlier cgmanager breakage).

  Even though this option isn't helpful for what we want (i.e. setting the
  list of cgroup controllers the first PID of a user session should be
  added to), we should nonetheless set it to an empty string which should
  instruct systemd not to co-mount any controller, therefore giving us a
  more reliable behavior (identical to what we have in the upstart world
  and unlikely to confuse lxc and other stuff doing direct cgroup access).

  Additionally, we need to find an equivalent to our good old
  "Controllers" logind.conf option, or re-introduce it or just patch
  logind so that it will always join all the controllers (similar to what
  the shim does).

  
  == Actions ==
   * Update systemd.conf to set JoinControllers to an empty value.
   * Make it so new user sessions are joined to all the available
     controllers by doing one of the following:
     - Find the magic undocumented config variable
     - Re-introduce the "Controllers" option in logind.conf
     - Patch logind to have it always join all available controllers

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