From 0a3eedd4c9d2bed208a85cd7aefae050a821eb6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@fosiki.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:29:08 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] when sharing a /var/lib/docker dir with more than one
 distribution, an existing lxc-start-unconfined softlink may point to a
 non-existant path, following that link (as Stat does) will cause the daemon
 to fail to start

---
 runtime.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/runtime.go b/runtime.go
index a2669343ce..3268892d56 100644
--- a/runtime.go
+++ b/runtime.go
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ func linkLxcStart(root string) error {
 	}
 	targetPath := path.Join(root, "lxc-start-unconfined")
 
-	if _, err := os.Stat(targetPath); err != nil && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+	if _, err := os.Lstat(targetPath); err != nil && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
 		return err
 	} else if err == nil {
 		if err := os.Remove(targetPath); err != nil {