[Bug 1065589] [NEW] "initctl list" shows 11974 instances of network-interface-security after two days of uptime

[Dan Kegel]

Public bug reported:

On an Ubuntu 12.04.1 system, each time you start and stop a container,
"initctl status" shows two more instances of network-interface and network-interface-security running.
The numbers do not go down after the container shuts down.
Evidently there's an interface leak in lxc-start?

Here's how I ran into this.
Hosting a small number of buildbots in 
one-shot ephemeral LXC containers,
in which the LXC container is stop and started after each build,
after two days of uptime, running the commands

while true
do
   time initctl list | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 3
done

outputs

      1 wait-for-state
   6003 network-interface
  11990 network-interface-security

real    0m19.428s

      1 wait-for-state
   6004 network-interface
  11994 network-interface-security

real    0m19.271s

If I stop the buildbots, the numbers stop rising.

This broke my build.

I can work around this by rebooting every night, but I'd sure rather
not.

** Affects: lxc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  "initctl list" shows 11974 instances of network-interface-security
  after two days of uptime

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