[systemd-devel] container /proc/filesystems owned by nobody:can't upgrade

[arnaud gaboury]

On 10/03/2017 04:35 PM, Anthony Joseph Messina wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 3:01:25 AM CDT arnaud gaboury wrote:
>> My host is Archlinux, nspawn container is Fedora 26. Kernel is 4.13.3
>> I can't fully upgrade my container as some files are owned by
>> nobody:nobody and can't change to root. An example is filesystems.
>> When upgrading, it returns error: < error: unpacking of archive
>> failed on file /proc: cpio: chown > $ ls -a /proc: /proc/filesystems
>> -r--r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 0 Oct 3 09:53 filesystems # chown
>> root:root /proc/filesystems chown: changing ownership of
>> '/proc/filesystems': Operation not permitted Same kind of error with
>> a few other packages. Can someone please help me to find a solution?
>> Thank you
> In my experience, certain packages need to be installed/upgraded from
> outside the container to work around this. httpd is another one (if
> using user namespacing) since it sets file attributes on /usr/sbin/httpd.
httpd is indeed one the few package I can't upgrade.
> On a Fedora host (and a Fedora container), I do something like dnf
> --releasever=26 --nogpgcheck \
> --installroot=/var/lib/machines/mymachine --disablerepo='*' \
> --enablerepo=fedora --enablerepo=updates upgrade filesystem httpd I'm
> think Arch will also have a command to install/update files in the
> container from the outside.

I will investigate this direction.
Thank you for your hints.
>
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