** Description changed: - I have a script using the Python3 LXC API that starts up a container. - If I use an Upstart job to call the script, the $PATH env var is getting - clobbered and the container fails to start. + == SRU == + Rationale: LXC 1.1 and higher mangles the process env to be able to re-title itself, breaking the environment for sub-processes in the process + Test case: Spawn a container and check /proc/self/environ + Regression potential: Worst case scenario is we stamp on a different part of the process memory leading to similar but different breakage. It's been tested not to be the case though, change comes from upstream. + + == Original bug report == + I have a script using the Python3 LXC API that starts up a container. If I use an Upstart job to call the script, the $PATH env var is getting clobbered and the container fails to start.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lxc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1517107 Title: $PATH is getting clobbered when starting a container with Upstart Status in lxc package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in lxc source package in Vivid: Fix Committed Status in lxc source package in Wily: Fix Committed Status in lxc source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Bug description: == SRU == Rationale: LXC 1.1 and higher mangles the process env to be able to re-title itself, breaking the environment for sub-processes in the process Test case: Spawn a container and check /proc/self/environ Regression potential: Worst case scenario is we stamp on a different part of the process memory leading to similar but different breakage. It's been tested not to be the case though, change comes from upstream. == Original bug report == I have a script using the Python3 LXC API that starts up a container. If I use an Upstart job to call the script, the $PATH env var is getting clobbered and the container fails to start. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1517107/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
