unable to systemd-nspawn into containers

[Adel Ahmed]

g50-80 backups # systemd-nspawn .
Spawning container backups on /media/hdd/backups.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
execv() failed: Permission denied
Container backups failed with error code 1.
g50-80 backups # ls
backup.sh bin dev home lib32 lost+found media opt root sbin sys usr
backup.tar.gz boot etc lib lib64 make.conf mnt proc run srv tmp var
g50-80 backups #


chrooting works though:
g50-80 backups # chroot .
g50-80 / #

I can execute files:
g50-80 backups # bin/bash
g50-80 backups #
g50-80 backups # bin/ls
backup.sh bin dev home lib32 lost+found media opt root sbin sys usr
backup.tar.gz boot etc lib lib64 make.conf mnt proc run srv tmp var

g50-80 backups # pwd
/media/hdd/backups

there is a symbolic link involved for one of the parent directories if that makes any difference:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 3 13:05 /media/hdd -> /media/root/media/hdd/

[Adel Ahmed]

I'm getting a different message this time:
g50-80 backups # systemd-nspawn
Spawning container backups on /media/hdd/backups.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
Failed to fork inner child: Invalid argument

[Logicien]

When I do systemd-nspawn and chroot I do it from the root home directory and I specify a user. Try

[Adel Ahmed]

unfortunately that did not work
g50-80 ~ # systemd-nspawn -D /media/hdd/backups -u root
Spawning container backups on /media/root/media/hdd/backups.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
Failed to fork inner child: Invalid argument

[Adel Ahmed]

bump

[Adel Ahmed]

here's an strace of the spawning:
http://pastebin.com/3EbWNkz3

I see some problems(might not be related to this issue):
239: open("/sys/fs/kdbus/0-system/bus", O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
247: getsockopt(12, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PEERSEC, 0x5559e12be260, 0x7ffc25a049e4) = -1 ENOPROTOOPT (Protocol not available)
256: recvmsg(12, 0x7ffc25a038b0, MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NOSIGNAL|MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

[Adel Ahmed]

now it's
Spawning container root on /media/root.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
Host and machine ids are equal (3cb75e38bee26b705d6c85cf574ddab1): refusing to link journals
execv() failed: Permission denied
Container root failed with error code 1.


partition is mounted with exec

[dan2003]

Maybe not of any help to the OP anymore but in case anybody else has this issue and finds themselves here the following resolved it for me.