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starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 232

systemd-nspawn will not start container made with pacstrap

I am trying to create a systemd-nspawn container, following the wiki but it the container fails to start. Here is what I am doing:

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
# pacstrap /mnt base
# systemd-nspawn -bD /mnt
Spawning container mnt on /mnt.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
Container mnt failed with error code 1.
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Both host and container have systemd 219.

As far as I can tell from reading various documentation, the above should work. Can anyone point out what's wrong with what I am doing?

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: systemd-nspawn will not start container made with pacstrap

The procedure described in the wiki works fine for me (I created the container in a directory and not on a mountpoint though). Is there something interesting in the journal?

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Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 8,575

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Re: systemd-nspawn will not start container made with pacstrap

The wiki page advise using `pacstrap` with the "-d" flag -- have you tried that?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _container

Is the system actually installed?

Can you view the filesystem in /mnt?

Try creating a specific directory just for the container rather than using /mnt

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