diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_init.c b/src/lxc/lxc_init.c
index 69ae3d8f4..968c25d6c 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxc_init.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_init.c
@@ -154,8 +154,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		sigaction(i, &act, NULL);
 	}
 
-	if (lxc_setup_fs())
-		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	lxc_setup_fs();
 
 	if (lxc_caps_reset())
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
diff --git a/src/lxc/utils.c b/src/lxc/utils.c
index e80a7826d..5bfe9dba2 100644
--- a/src/lxc/utils.c
+++ b/src/lxc/utils.c
@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@ static int mount_fs(const char *source, const char *target, const char *type)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-extern int lxc_setup_fs(void)
+extern void lxc_setup_fs(void)
 {
 	if (mount_fs("proc", "/proc", "proc"))
-		return -1;
+		INFO("failed to remount proc");
 
 	/* if we can't mount /dev/shm, continue anyway */
 	if (mount_fs("shmfs", "/dev/shm", "tmpfs"))
@@ -163,14 +163,12 @@ extern int lxc_setup_fs(void)
 	/* Sure, but it's read-only per config :) */
 	if (access("/dev/mqueue", F_OK) && mkdir("/dev/mqueue", 0666)) {
 		DEBUG("failed to create '/dev/mqueue'");
-		return 0;
+		return;
 	}
 
 	/* continue even without posix message queue support */
 	if (mount_fs("mqueue", "/dev/mqueue", "mqueue"))
 		INFO("failed to mount /dev/mqueue");
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 /* borrowed from iproute2 */
diff --git a/src/lxc/utils.h b/src/lxc/utils.h
index 9c47560cf..714e74c6f 100644
--- a/src/lxc/utils.h
+++ b/src/lxc/utils.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
 /* returns 1 on success, 0 if there were any failures */
 extern int lxc_rmdir_onedev(char *path);
-extern int lxc_setup_fs(void);
+extern void lxc_setup_fs(void);
 extern int get_u16(unsigned short *val, const char *arg, int base);
 extern int mkdir_p(const char *dir, mode_t mode);
 extern void remove_trailing_slashes(char *p);