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

arnaud gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 15:38:45 UTC 2017


On 10/03/2017 05:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:01 AM, arnaud gaboury
> <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> 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
> I find it strange that a package upgrade would be trying to install
> the /proc directory on a running system. That's a directory that
> should only really be touched when performing an initial install; any
> other time, /proc will be mounted already and packages should not
> touch it. I would report this as a bug to Arch.
If it is a bug, it shall be reported on Fedora, which is the OS running
in the container, and not Arch which is the host.

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