[Nix-dev] error in unpack-bootstrap-tools.sh

Matei David matei at cs.toronto.edu
Tue Nov 10 17:31:08 CET 2015


On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:56:29 -0700
"Ericson, John" <john_ericson at brown.edu> wrote:

> `unshare -urm` should do the trick if you have it. Also check if `man
> 2 unshare` describes a CLONE_NEWUSR flag. `man 7 user_namespaces` is
> also a good resource.

Sorry for the delay. I looked into this, and the unshare version
available on my cluster does not support -r. Furthermore,
lxc-checkconfig reports:

User namespace: missing

So I think the kernel is too old for such things.


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