When starting: vserver myguest start Gentoo/Linux 1.13.0_alpha12; http://www.gentoo.org/ Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 Press I to enter interactive boot mode klogctl: Operation not permitted * Using existing device nodes in /dev ... [ ok ] * root filesystem is mounted read-write - skipping * Checking all filesystems ... [ ok ] * Mounting local filesystems ... [ ok ] * Activating (possible) swap ... [ ok ] * Setting hostname to gentoo ... [ ok ] * Updating environment ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /tmp directory ... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator ... [ ok ] * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [VPS] ... [ ok ] * Starting syslog-ng ... Error opening file /proc/kmsg for reading (Operation not permitted) Error initializing configuration, exiting. * Failed to start syslog-ng [ !! ] * ERROR: syslog-ng failed to start * Starting vixie-cron ... [ ok ] * Starting local ... [ ok ] vserver-stat CTX PROC VSZ RSS userTIME sysTIME UPTIME NAME 0 122 1.8G 564.3M 3m58s36 1m06s28 25m05s93 root server 1253 1 1.7M 688K 0m00s00 0m00s00 0m25s42 myguest When stopping: vserver myguest stop * Stopping local ... [ ok ] * Saving random seed ... [ ok ] * Stopping vixie-cron ... [ ok ] * Deactivating swap ... Not superuser. [ !! ] * Unmounting loopback devices ... [ ok ] * Unmounting filesystems ... * We are using /usr/portage/distfiles, not unmounting * We are using /usr/portage, not unmounting * Unmounting /tmp ... /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver.stop: line 85: 8547 Killed "${NICE_CMD[@]}" ${USE_VNAMESPACE:+$_VNAMESPACE --enter "$S_CONTEXT" -- } $_VCONTEXT $SILENT_OPT --migrate --chroot --xid "$S_CONTEXT" -- "${INITCMD_STOP[@]}" A timeout occured while waiting for the vserver to finish and it will be killed by sending a SIGKILL signal. The following process list might be useful for finding out the reason of this behavior: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------