Ubuntu containers fails to start on UEFI-enabled hosts

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lxc into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu39.12.10.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lxc into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/0.7.5-3ubuntu67 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Tested on both precise and quantal UEFI.

Works for me ..

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This bug was fixed in the package lxc - 0.7.5-3ubuntu67

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lxc (0.7.5-3ubuntu67) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Don't directly write/remove /etc/dnsmasq.d/lxc as that's causing problems
    when removing and reinstalling lxc.
    Instead have dnsmasq ship /etc/dnsmasq.d-available/lxc and create/remove
    a symlink in /etc/dnsmasq.d/. (LP: #1113821)
  * Bump debhelper dependency and add Pre-Depends on newer dpkg for above fix.
  * Allow the container to mount efivars on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars.
    efivars is automatically mounted by mountall on UEFI systems, failure to
    do so leads to a complete boot failure. (LP: #1117589)
  * 0221-make-nonflush-upgrades-robust: be more robust about out of date
    container caches. (LP: #942862)
  * 0207-ubuntu-cloud-fixes.patch: cleanups to lxc-ubuntu-cloud.in
    fix for quantal images that do not have user 'ubuntu' present
    (LP: #1045955)
  * 0301-debian-copy-config: Pass all the arguments to copy_configuration.
    (LP: #1111613)
 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:08:07 -0500

This bug was fixed in the package lxc - 0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu39.12.10.2

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lxc (0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu39.12.10.2) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Don't directly write/remove /etc/dnsmasq.d/lxc as that's causing problems
    when removing and reinstalling lxc.
    Instead have dnsmasq ship /etc/dnsmasq.d-available/lxc and create/remove
    a symlink in /etc/dnsmasq.d/. (LP: #1113821)
  * Allow the container to mount efivars on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars.
    efivars is automatically mounted by mountall on UEFI systems, failure to
    do so leads to a complete boot failure. (LP: #1117589)
 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:26:22 -0500

The exact same problem also affects raring. Should I open a new bug?

The fix is in raring, so the precise cause for your bug is likely different (even if related).

Please file a new bug (preferably using 'ubuntu-bug lxc') and append both any relevent syslog output and the file 'debug.log' after doing 'lxc-start -n <container> -l info -o debug.log'.