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Daniel Bidwell
Asked: 2016-05-12 10:42:33 +0800 CST

LXD init cannot be used at this time

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With a machine newly upgraded to 16.04, I run "lxd init" and it returns with "LXD init cannot be used at this time". What causes this error message? And what do I have to fix so that I can run "lxd init"?

I removed lxc1, uninstalled lxd and reinstalled it, all without success.

I finally uninstalled lxd with a "purge" option and removed the /var/lib/lxd and /var/log/lxd directories, before reinstalling lxd and lxd-client. Now I can run "lxd init", but it didn't create the lxdbr0 bridge.

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2 Answers

  1. There are two questions here, I'll try to help.

    lxd init requires the LXD installation to be brand new with no containers already created. The command you're looking for is dpkg-reconfigure -p medium lxd which will allow for reconfiguration of the network bridge.

    You can also use this command to address your second issue and try again to create the bridge.

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  2. I ended up having to do the uninstall purge and apt-get autoclean. The only difference is that I set my /etc/network/interfaces back to the original and did a uninstall purge on bridge-utils as well. That worked for me and I was able to do lxd init.

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