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Re: Environment containers
From: |
Thompson, David |
Subject: |
Re: Environment containers |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:08:01 -0400 |
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Alex Vong <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 28/10/2015, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Alex Vong <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>>
>>>>> On 27/10/2015, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>> Do you still experience the test failures mentioned in that report? If
>>>>>> not, could you email address@hidden, specifying which commit
>>>>>> works for you?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, there are 4 tests still failing with the latest master branch
>>>>> without unprivileged container.
>>>>
>>>> Which tests? Does tests/container.scm pass?
>>>>
>>> It doesn't pass if I run as unprivileged user. It passes if I run as
>>> root. I will be mailing the test logs on another mail.
>>
>> This is because Debian doesn't let unprivileged users create user
>> namespaces without explicitly overriding some configuration.
>
> How could we determine whether this restriction is in place? That would
> allow us to skip the test on these systems.
I think it is /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone, but I don't
know what the contents are exactly. 0 when off, 1 when on? Can
someone on Debian confirm?
If we can get the test suite passing, I'd like to extract these user
namespace presence tests to a procedure that 'guix environment' can
use to give the user an informative error message in these cases.
- Dave
- Re: Environment containers, (continued)
- Re: Environment containers, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/26
- Re: Environment containers, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2015/10/26
- Re: Environment containers, Thompson, David, 2015/10/26
- Re: Environment containers, Alex Vong, 2015/10/27
- Re: Environment containers, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/27
- Re: Environment containers, Alex Vong, 2015/10/28
- Re: Environment containers, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/28
- Re: Environment containers, Alex Vong, 2015/10/28
- Re: Environment containers, Thompson, David, 2015/10/28
- Re: Environment containers, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/28
- Re: Environment containers,
Thompson, David <=
- Re: Environment containers, Alex Vong, 2015/10/28
- Re: Environment containers, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/29
- Re: Environment containers, Thompson, David, 2015/10/29
Re: Environment containers, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2015/10/29
Re: Environment containers, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/10/26
Re: Environment containers, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/10/28