Re: [meta-virtualization] lxc: starting a container errors out

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On Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 3:34 p.m. Ferry Toth via lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> root@yuna:~# lxc-create --name mycontainer --template download -- --dist
> ubuntu --release resolute --arch amd64
>
> mktemp: failed to create file via template '-d/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX': No such
> file or directory
>
>
> This can be traced back to
>
> - DOWNLOAD_TEMP="${DOWNLOAD_TEMP}$(mktemp -d)"
>
> + DOWNLOAD_TEMP="$(mktemp -p ${DOWNLOAD_TEMP} -d)"
>
>
> in patch "templates-actually-create-DOWNLOAD_TEMP-directory.patch."
>
> At this point in the code it is guaranteed that DOWNLOAD_TEMP is unset.
> And `mktemp -p -d` results to the above error (on linux).
>
> The patch needs to be dropped.
>


So send a patch.

lxc is functional for other use cases master-next is passing sanity for
incus/lxc and I'll need to confirm those paths against any changes.

Bruce


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