[pkg-go] Bug#982288: podman: Can't run caontainers - failed to connect to container's attach socket

[Reinhard Tartler]

Control: tag -1 upstream
Control: severity important
Control: retitle -1 rootless podman fails with very long uids

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:09 AM Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk> wrote:

> Package: podman
> Version: 3.0.0~rc2+dfsg1-2+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> X-Debbugs-Cc: sam at robots.org.uk
>
> After upgrading to podman 3, I can't run any containers any more.
>
>     $ podman run --rm -it docker.io/library/debian:10
>     Error: failed to connect to container's attach socket:
> /run/user/876099160/libpod/tmp/socket/3178d20b8a3a42642dc6a7f32884df47019bc4a2a82af94fe4928b00ed3293c9/attach:
> no such file or directory
>
> The directory /run/user/876099160/libpod/tmp/socket is empty.
>

It works just fine for me:


siretart at x1:/tmp$ podman run --rm -it docker.io/library/debian:10
Trying to pull docker.io/library/debian:10...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob b9a857cbf04d done
Copying config e7d08cddf7 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
root at 55ebd48e763b:/# exit



> According to unix(7), socket paths are limited to 108 bytes, but the
> path in the error message is slightly longer than that:
>
>     $ echo -n /run/user/876099160/libpod/tmp/socket/18654637587d169f834095dce40d4812378e0056936974c9b7073ba1ae767bfa/attach
> | wc -c
>     109
>
>
Is 876099160 really the uid of your user? That seems absurdly long to me,
for me it is '1000'.



> Podman had a similar sounding bug a couple of years ago,
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1641800>, but that was
> fixed in podman 0.11.1.
>

That indeed seems related. Would you mind filing a new bug with this
information at https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/new and tell me
the bug number?

Thanks.
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