TL;DR When defining networking on Proxmox 4 LXC containers, use an appropriate CIDR suffix (e.g. 24) - don’t use 32! On my Proxmox 4 server I’m running a whole load of lovely LXC containers. Unfortunately, I had trouble connecting to them. From a client machine, I got the error ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer On the server I was connecting to (which I could get a console for through the Proxmox GUI, or a session on using pct enter from the Proxmox host) I ran a SSHD process with debug to see what was happening:

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Installing CDH 5.7 on Linux Containers (LXC) hosted on Proxmox 4. Everything was going well until Cluster Setup, and which point it failed on Start YARN (MR2 included) Completed only 0/1 steps. First failure: Failed to execute command Start on service YARN (MR2 Included) Log /var/log/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-cmf-yarn-NODEMANAGER-cdh57-01-node-02.moffatt.me.log.out showed: org.apache.hadoop.service.AbstractService: Service containers-monitor failed in state INITED; cause: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "18446744073709550364" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "18446744073709550364" Looking down the stack trace, this came from org.

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After a long and painful delivery, I’m delighted to announce the arrival of a new addition to my household … : This custom-build from Scan 3XS is sat in my study quietly humming away. I’m going to use it for hosting VMs for R&D on OBIEE, Big Data Lite, Elastic, InfluxDB, Kafka, etc. I’ll blog various installations that I’ve done on it as a reference for myself, and anyone else interested.

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