Description of problem: machinectl fails to start f23 beta image: Failed to open /dev/loop-control Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@f23beta ~]# rpm -qf `which machinectl` systemd-222-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@f23beta ~]# How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: downloaded the f23 beta cloud image and saved it as f23.raw.xz, because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266775 [root@f23beta ~]# machinectl list-images NAME TYPE RO USAGE CREATED MODIFIED 0 images listed. [root@f23beta ~]# machinectl import-raw /home/fedora/f23.raw.xz Enqueued transfer job 1. Press C-c to continue download in background. Importing '/home/fedora/f23.raw.xz', saving as 'f23'. Imported 0%. Imported 1%. ... Imported 99%. Imported 100%. Operation completed successfully. Exiting. [root@f23beta ~]# machinectl list-images NAME TYPE RO USAGE CREATED MODIFIED f23 raw no 647.1M n/a Sun 2015-09-27 13:50:36 UTC 1 images listed. [root@f23beta ~]# machinectl start f23 Job for systemd-nspawn failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status systemd-nspawn" and "journalctl -xe" for details. Actual results: Sep 27 17:35:08 f23beta.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Container f23... Sep 27 17:35:08 f23beta.localdomain systemd-nspawn[854]: Failed to open /dev/loop-control: Operation not permitted Sep 27 17:35:08 f23beta.localdomain systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Sep 27 17:35:08 f23beta.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start Container f23. Sep 27 17:35:08 f23beta.localdomain systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn: Unit entered failed state. Sep 27 17:35:08 f23beta.localdomain systemd[1]: systemd-nspawn: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Expected results: container should start Additional info: I set selinux to permissive, but that didn't help.
Filed upstream as https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1446.
https://github.com/poettering/systemd/commit/988a47964283b6a72f5ce117f287ebeb12e26d2d https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/a2c90f05f11c01a9f9faf3efb3ec0e05acebd75f
*** Bug 1288104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still an issue on release of F23.
systemd-222-9.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-76fc543765
systemd-222-10.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-76fc543765
systemd-222-10.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update systemd' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-76fc543765
systemd-222-10.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.