[pkg-go] Bug#970352: unprivileged podman dies with gibberish

Tue Sep 15 06:47:53 BST 2020

Package: podman
Version: 2.0.6+dfsg1-1

Unprivileged podman dies with some gibberish instead of a readable
error message:

% podman run -it debian /bin/bash
Trying to pull quay.io/debian...
   error parsing HTTP 404 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN\">\n<title>404 Not Found</title>\n<h1>Not Found</h1>\n<p>The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check 
your spelling and try again.</p>\n"
Trying to pull docker.io/library/debian...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 57df1a1f1ad8 done
Copying config f6dcff9b59 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
ERRO[0010] Error while applying layer: ApplyLayer exit status 1 stdout:  stderr: there might not be enough IDs available in the namespace (requested 0:42 for /etc/gshadow): lchown /etc/gshadow: invalid argument
   ApplyLayer exit status 1 stdout:  stderr: there might not be enough IDs available in the namespace (requested 0:42 for /etc/gshadow): lchown /etc/gshadow: invalid argument
Error: unable to pull debian: 2 errors occurred:
         * Error initializing source docker://quay.io/debian:latest: Error reading manifest latest in quay.io/debian: error parsing HTTP 404 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN\">\n<title>404 Not 
Found</title>\n<h1>Not Found</h1>\n<p>The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.</p>\n"
         * Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob "sha256:57df1a1f1ad841deaf50c8f662d77e93b4b17af776ed66148116607f9aceffa8": ApplyLayer exit status 1 stdout:  stderr: there might not be enough IDs available in the namespace (requested 0:42 for /etc/gshadow): lchown 
/etc/gshadow: invalid argument

Regards
Harri