Docker on RHEL 6 Cgroup mounting failing - docker

Question

I'm trying to get my head around something that's been working on a Centos+Vagrant, but not on our providers RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)). A sudo service docker restart hands this:
Stopping docker: [ OK ]
Starting cgconfig service: Error: cannot mount cpuset to /cgroup/cpuset: Device or resource busy
/sbin/cgconfigparser; error loading /etc/cgconfig.conf: Cgroup mounting failed
Failed to parse /etc/cgconfig.conf [FAILED]
Starting docker: [ OK ]
The service starts okey enough, but images cannot run. A mounting failed error is shown when I try. And the startup-log also gives a warning or two. Regarding the kernelwarning, centos gives the same and has no problems as Epel should resolve this:
WARNING: You are running linux kernel version 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64, which might be unstable running docker. Please upgrade your kernel to 3.8.0.
2014/08/07 08:58:29 docker daemon: 1.1.2 d84a070; execdriver: native; graphdriver:
[1233d0af] +job serveapi(unix:///var/run/docker.sock)
[1233d0af] +job initserver()
[1233d0af.initserver()] Creating server
2014/08/07 08:58:29 Listening for HTTP on unix (/var/run/docker.sock)
[1233d0af] +job init_networkdriver()
[1233d0af] -job init_networkdriver() = OK (0)
2014/08/07 08:58:29 WARNING: mountpoint not found
Anyone had any success overcoming this problem or should I throw in the towel and wait for the provider to update to RHEL 7?

Answer 1

I have the same issue.
(1) check cgconfig status
# /etc/init.d/cgconfig status
if it stopped, restart it
# /etc/init.d/cgconfig restart
check cgconfig is running
(2) check cgconfig is on
# chkconfig --list cgconfig
cgconfig 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
if cgconfig is off, turn it on
(3) if still does not work, may be some cgroups modules is missing. In the kernel .config file, make menuconfig, add those modules into kernel and recompile and reboot
after that, it should be OK

Answer 2

I ended up asking the same question at Google Groups and in the end finding a solution with some help. What worked for me was this:
umount cgroup
sudo service cgconfig start
The project of making Docker work was put on halt all the same. Later a problem of network connection for the containers. This took to much time to solve and had to give up.

Answer 3

So I spent the whole day trying to rig docker to work on my vps. I was running into this same error. Basically what it came down to was the fact that OpenVZ didn't support docker containers up until a couple months ago. Specifically this RHEL update:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab105.14
Assuming this is your problem, or some variation of it, the burden of solving it is on your host. They will need to follow these steps:
https://openvz.org/Docker_inside_CT

Answer 4

In my case
/etc/rc.d/rc.cgconfig start
was generating
Starting cgconfig service: Error: cannot mount cpu,cpuacct,memory to
/cgroup/cpu_and_mem: Device or resource busy /usr/sbin/cgconfigparser;
error loading /etc/cgconfig.conf: Cgroup mounting failed Failed to
parse /etc/cgconfig.conf
i had to use:
/etc/rc.d/rc.cgconfig restart
and it automagicly umouted and mounted groups
Stopping cgconfig service: Starting cgconfig service:

Answer 5

it seems like the cgconfig service not running,so check it!
# /etc/init.d/cgconfig status
# mkdir -p /cgroup/cpuacct /cgroup/memory /cgroup/devices /cgroup/freezer net_cls /cgroup/blkio
# cat /etc/cgconfig.conf |tail|grep "="|awk '{print "mount -t cgroup -o",$1,$1,$NF}'>cgroup_mount.sh
# sh ./cgroup_mount.sh
# /etc/init.d/cgconfig restart
# /etc/init.d/docker restart

Answer 6

This situation occurs when the kernel is booted with cgroup_disable=memory and /etc/cgconfig.conf contains memory = /cgroup/memory;
This causes only /cgroup/cpuset to be mounted instead of the full set.
Solution: either remove cgroup_disable=memory from your kernel boot options or comment out memory = /cgroup/memory; from cgconfig.conf.

Answer 7

The cgconfig service startup uses mount and umount which requires an extra privilege bump from docker.
See the --privileged=true flag here for more info.
I was able to overcome this issue by starting my container with:
docker run -it --privileged=true my-image.
Tested in Centos6, Centos6.5.