Ubuntu 7.10 requires the latest vzctl (check http://git.openvz.org to compile it)
otherwise init does busy loop on VE start (plz check it),
so it can hang and not stop.
(`kill -KILL <VE-init-pid` from host system will kill the whole VE
very quickly :@) still)

Kirill


Cliff Wells wrote:
> Hardware: dual Opteron 242
> Kernel: linux-2.6.18-openvz-028.049
> Host OS: Gentoo
> Guest OS: ubuntu-7.10-i386-minimal
> 
> Both host and VE are fresh installs.
> 
> I noticed that "vzctl stop 101" would fail with
> 
> Stopping VPS ...
> Unable to stop VPS, operation timed out
> 
> 
> This of course also prevented me from properly shutting down the system
> (power off required).
> 
> I found a post [1] that seemed related, which led to investigating halt
> commands:
> 
> vps1 ~ # vzctl enter 101
> root@localhost:/# halt -p
> shutdown: Unable to send message: Connection refused
> root@localhost:/# halt
> shutdown: Unable to send message: Connection refused 
> root@localhost:/dev# halt -fp
> got signal 9
> exited from VE 101
> vps1 ~ #
> 
> 
> Does this appear to be a problem with OVZ or with the guest template?
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=6354&
> 
> 
>