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

[Ericson, John]

That's unfortunate, but I suppose only what's to be expected given Debian
Squeeze.

If you are stick stuck on your earlier plan of attack, did you see on the
wiki about "bootstrapping" a custom-compiled nix with proot? That might
help.

John

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Matei David <matei at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:

> 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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