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[Bug 1457054] Re: journal is broken in unprivileged LXC and nspawn containers

 

Hello Martin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted systemd into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/219-7ubuntu6
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Vivid)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  journal is broken in unprivileged LXC and nspawn containers

Status in lxc package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Vivid:
  Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Wily:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Test case
  -------------
  - Under Ubuntu 15.04 (or 15.10), set up an unprivileged container as in https://www.stgraber.org/2014/01/17/lxc-1-0-unprivileged-containers/
  - Boot it. You'll get a lot of errors like

    [FAILED] Failed to start Journal Service.
    systemd-journald-audit.socket failed to listen on sockets: Operation not permitted
    [FAILED] Failed to listen on Journal Audit Socket.

  - The same happens with systemd-nspawn -b.

  As a result, the journal isn't working at all, and you have a bunch of
  failed journal related units.

  With a fixed systemd package, systemd in the container should realize
  that it cannot listen to the audit socket (as the kernel doesn't allow
  that -- the audit subsystem isn't fit for namespaces right now), and
  "sudo journalctl" should show the journal and systemd-journald.service
  should be running. These systemd fixes are sufficient for nspawn, but
  not completely for unprivileged LXC containers -- there the journal
  will start working, but systemd-journald-audit.socket will still keep
  failing (this is less important)

  REGRESSION POTENTIAL: Very low. This only affects the fallback error
  code path if binding to the audit socket failed. In that case the
  journal is currently not working at all. This usually doesn't happen
  on real iron/VMs (they also always CAP_AUDIT_READ), so there is no
  practical change there.

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