Bug#775437: systemd: systemctl reboot just shuts down under OpenVZ (kernel 2.6.32-042stab093.4)

[Daniel Edwards]

Hi Michael,

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 06:56:50PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>Am 21.01.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> Am 15.01.2015 um 18:53 schrieb Daniel Edwards:
>>> It would be great if the package in wheezy could be fixed, as the systemd
>>> version from wheezy-backports (204) is not compatible with the OpenVZ kernel
>>> (systemd 204 needs a kernel >= 2.6.39 and OVZ only has kernels up to 2.6.32).
>>> It is unfortunately not possible to use SysVInit in OVZ, because this hangs
>>> when init starts up.
>> 
>> Please ask the stable release managers, if they would accept such a
>> patch. I don't think we really support such inofficial kernels or mixing
>> squeeze kernels with wheezy userland.
>> 
>> So I'm inclined to reject this bug report, especially since the Debian
>> kernel maintainers decided to drop OpenVZ support for the Debian kernel.

I absolutely understand that you don't support third-party kernels or
mixing different distributions.

>Reading the openvz bug report [1], it seems there exists a workaround
>now in vzctl 4.1. Jessie is shipping a recent enough version,
>unfortunately, wheezy only has 3.0. You might ask the vzctl maintainers
>for a backport of the jessie version.

Thank you Michael for your help and your work! I will contact the
company running the OVZ host if they can update their systems to use a
more recent vzctl. In the meantime I'll just use my own build of systemd
or maybe change the hosting company.

Daniel