userns container fails to start, how to track down the reason?

When creating a userns (unprivileged) LXC container on Ubuntu 14.04 with the following command line:

lxc-create -n test1 -t download -- -d $(lsb_release -si|tr 'A-Z' 'a-z') -r $(lsb_release -sc) -a $(dpkg --print-architecture)

and (without touching the created configuration file) then attempting to start it with:

lxc-start -n test1 -l DEBUG

it fails. The log file shows me:

lxc-start 1420149317.700 INFO     lxc_start_ui - using rcfile /home/oliver/.local/share/lxc/test1/config
lxc-start 1420149317.700 INFO     lxc_utils - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't set in the environment.
lxc-start 1420149317.701 INFO     lxc_confile - read uid map: type u nsid 0 hostid 100000 range 65536
lxc-start 1420149317.701 INFO     lxc_confile - read uid map: type g nsid 0 hostid 100000 range 65536
lxc-start 1420149317.701 WARN     lxc_log - lxc_log_init called with log already initialized
lxc-start 1420149317.701 INFO     lxc_lsm - LSM security driver AppArmor
lxc-start 1420149317.701 INFO     lxc_utils - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't set in the environment.
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_conf - allocated pty '/dev/pts/2' (5/6)
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_conf - allocated pty '/dev/pts/7' (7/8)
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_conf - allocated pty '/dev/pts/8' (9/10)
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_conf - allocated pty '/dev/pts/10' (11/12)
lxc-start 1420149317.702 INFO     lxc_conf - tty's configured
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_start - sigchild handler set
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_console - opening /dev/tty for console peer
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_console - using '/dev/tty' as console
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_console - 14946 got SIGWINCH fd 17
lxc-start 1420149317.702 DEBUG    lxc_console - set winsz dstfd:14 cols:118 rows:61
lxc-start 1420149317.905 INFO     lxc_start - 'test1' is initialized
lxc-start 1420149317.906 DEBUG    lxc_start - Not dropping cap_sys_boot or watching utmp
lxc-start 1420149317.906 INFO     lxc_start - Cloning a new user namespace
lxc-start 1420149317.906 INFO     lxc_cgroup - cgroup driver cgmanager initing for test1
lxc-start 1420149317.907 ERROR    lxc_cgmanager - call to cgmanager_create_sync failed: invalid request
lxc-start 1420149317.907 ERROR    lxc_cgmanager - Failed to create hugetlb:test1
lxc-start 1420149317.907 ERROR    lxc_cgmanager - Error creating cgroup hugetlb:test1
lxc-start 1420149317.907 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: hugetlb:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.908 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: perf_event:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.908 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: blkio:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.908 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: freezer:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.909 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: devices:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.909 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: memory:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.909 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: cpuacct:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.909 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: cpu:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.910 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: cpuset:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.910 INFO     lxc_cgmanager - cgroup removal attempt: name=systemd:test1 did not exist
lxc-start 1420149317.910 ERROR    lxc_start - failed creating cgroups
lxc-start 1420149317.910 INFO     lxc_utils - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't set in the environment.
lxc-start 1420149317.910 ERROR    lxc_start - failed to spawn 'test1'
lxc-start 1420149317.910 INFO     lxc_utils - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't set in the environment.
lxc-start 1420149317.910 INFO     lxc_utils - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't set in the environment.
lxc-start 1420149317.910 ERROR    lxc_start_ui - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 1420149317.910 ERROR    lxc_start_ui - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.

Now I see two errors here, the latter probably being a result of the former, which is:

lxc_start - failed creating cgroups

However, I see /sys/fs/cgroup mounted:

$ mount|grep cgr
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)

and cgmanager is installed:

$ dpkg -l|awk '$1 ~ /^ii$/ && /cgmanager/ {print $2 " " $3 " " $4}'
cgmanager 0.24-0ubuntu7 amd64
libcgmanager0:amd64 0.24-0ubuntu7 amd64

Note: My host defaults still to upstart.