If a container is already running, say so in error msgs.

Otherwise there is no clear indication to the user why the container
startup failed.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>

diff --git a/src/lxc/commands.c b/src/lxc/commands.c
index f323943192f8cd50bb798be515e790cdfec746fe..1d488aed25106fba7269c953b65c6b77d00cdc13 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lxc/commands.c
+++ b/src/lxc/commands.c
@@ -271,7 +271,12 @@ extern int lxc_command_mainloop_add(const char *name,
 
        fd = lxc_af_unix_open(path, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
        if (fd < 0) {
-               ERROR("failed to create the command service point");
+               ERROR("failed (%d) to create the command service point %s", errno, offset);
+               if (errno == EADDRINUSE) {
+                       ERROR("##");
+                       ERROR("# The container appears to be already running!");
+                       ERROR("##");
+               }
                return -1;
        }