Thanks. I think the problem is a newly introduced check for path writeability which is harmless and in fact, potentially useful in just about all cases but the weird Ubuntu Phone case where / is read-only, confusing that check.
@Christian: Can you look into fixing this? I suspect we only really care about being able to access the path, not so much about being able to write to it. So it may make sense to change the check in all our tools to simply check for read rights. ** Changed in: lxc (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Christian Brauner (cbrauner) -- 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/1653725 Title: lxc-android-config not starting on ubuntu-touch/staging/* xenial-based images after lxc upgrade Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in lxc package in Ubuntu: New Status in lxc-android-config package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: As in topic. Since the 20161217 rootfs, after upgrade of lxc from 2.0.5-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.3 to 2.0.6-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1 the lxc- android-config service does not start - making the devices unbootable. The syslog only states this: Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: Starting LXC Android Config and Container Initialization... Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet kernel: [ 5.790810] (3)[1:systemd]SLEEP_EN = 0x1 Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd-udevd[672]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for ifb0: No such file or directory Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd-udevd[684]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for ifb1: No such file or directory Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet lxc-start[1220]: You lack access to /var/lib/lxc Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: lxc-android-config.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: Failed to start LXC Android Config and Container Initialization. Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: Dependency failed for force-mtp.service. Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: force-mtp.service: Job force-mtp.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: lxc-android-config.service: Unit entered failed state. Jan 3 10:50:30 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: lxc-android-config.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. This makes all of our frieza and cooler devices useless for testing purposes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1653725/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp