[Bug 942961] Re: running-in-container exits 1 as non-root even inside a container

[Serge Hallyn]

Thanks for submitting this bug.

I'm not sure what we should do about this.

1. we could install dbus in all containers.  dbus is required in order
for non-root tasks to talk to upstart.

2. we could have running-in-container (maybe only if non-root) only
check /run/container_type.  /run is never persistent, so that should
actually be safe.

or we could do nothing, and say it's workign as designed.

I'm tempted to say let's do (2), but I have a feeling we'll keep running
into other problems if we don't do (1).

** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
  running-in-container exits 1 as non-root even inside a container

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  $ sudo running-in-container
  lxc

  $ running-in-container; echo $?
  1

  it should at very least exit with something other than '1' this canont
  be determined other than as root.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: upstart 1.4-0ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.2.0-17.27-virtual 3.2.6
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-virtual x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Feb 28 23:17:20 2012
  Ec2AMI: ami-00000000
  Ec2AMIManifest: FIXME
  Ec2AvailabilityZone: nova
  Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
  Ec2Kernel: unavailable
  Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.init.container.detect.conf: 2012-02-28T23:12:41.439110

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