buildah: ERRO[0030] unable to write container terminal output: resource temporarily unavailable

Description

While installing packages via buildah run, the program appears to lock up. This error message is displayed in the terminal.

ERRO[0030] unable to write container terminal output: resource temporarily unavailable

It just stays on that error permanently until I ctrl+c the process. With the error on the screen the working container is up.

# buildah containers
CONTAINER ID  BUILDER  IMAGE ID     IMAGE NAME                       CONTAINER NAME
1c9542922661     *     801894bc0e43 registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:27 fedora-working-container

Steps to reproduce the issue:

buildah from registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:27
buildah run fedora-working-container -- dnf --assumeyes install bash-completion dnf-utils less procps-ng python2-rpm-macros python3-rpm-macros rpmdevtools rpmlint tree vim-enhanced wget

It does not happen every time, but rather about half of the times I try to reproduce it on my system.

Describe the results you received: ERRO[0030] unable to write container terminal output: resource temporarily unavailable

Describe the results you expected: command to finish successfully

Output of rpm -q buildah or apt list buildah:

buildah-1.1-1.gitfbf46d3.fc27.x86_64

Output of buildah version:

Version:         1.1
Go Version:      go1.9.6
Image Spec:      1.0.0
Runtime Spec:    1.0.0
CNI Spec:        0.3.1
libcni Version:  v0.6.0
Git Commit:      fbf46d3
Built:           Sun Jun 10 16:30:19 2018
OS/Arch:         linux/amd64

Output of cat /etc/*release:

Fedora release 27 (Twenty Seven)
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="27 (Twenty Seven)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=27
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 27 (Twenty Seven)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=27
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=27
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy"
Fedora release 27 (Twenty Seven)
Fedora release 27 (Twenty Seven)

Output of uname -a:

Linux tassadar 4.16.14-200.fc27.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 5 16:30:48 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Output of cat /etc/containers/storage.conf:

# storage.conf is the configuration file for all tools
# that share the containers/storage libraries
# See man 5 containers-storage.conf for more information

# The "container storage" table contains all of the server options.
[storage]

# Default Storage Driver
driver = "overlay"

# Temporary storage location
runroot = "/var/run/containers/storage"

# Primary Read/Write location of container storage
graphroot = "/var/lib/containers/storage"

[storage.options]
# AdditionalImageStores is used to pass paths to additional Read/Only image stores
# Must be comma separated list.
additionalimagestores = [
]

# Size is used to set a maximum size of the container image.  Only supported by
# certain container storage drivers.
size = ""

# OverrideKernelCheck tells the driver to ignore kernel checks based on kernel version
override_kernel_check = "true"

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 15 (12 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@nalind added a fix for this, it will be in buildah 1.2 release. @carlwgeorge You could also try it from master if you want.

rhatdan on Jun 14, 2018