toolbox: Error: Failed to start container

Describe the bug Just installed toolbox and created a new container via toolbox create but when entering i get Error: Failed to start container.

Output with log-level debug:

[davide@localhost]~% toolbox enter nrf52840 --log-level debug
DEBU Running as real user ID 1000                 
DEBU Resolved absolute path to the executable as /usr/bin/toolbox 
DEBU Running on a cgroups v2 host                 
DEBU Checking if /etc/subgid and /etc/subuid have entries for user davide 
DEBU Validating sub-ID file /etc/subuid           
DEBU Validating sub-ID file /etc/subgid           
DEBU TOOLBOX_PATH is /usr/bin/toolbox             
DEBU Migrating to newer Podman                    
DEBU Toolbox config directory is /home/davide/.config/toolbox 
DEBU Current Podman version is 3.3.1              
DEBU Creating runtime directory /run/user/1000/toolbox 
DEBU Old Podman version is 3.3.1                  
DEBU Migration not needed: Podman version 3.3.1 is unchanged 
DEBU Resolving container and image names          
DEBU Container: 'nrf52840'                        
DEBU Distribution: ''                             
DEBU Image: ''                                    
DEBU Release: ''                                  
DEBU Resolved container and image names           
DEBU Container: 'nrf52840'                        
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:34'                   
DEBU Release: '34'                                
DEBU Checking if container nrf52840 exists        
DEBU Inspecting mounts of container nrf52840      
DEBU Starting container nrf52840                  
Error: failed to start container nrf52840

Steps how to reproduce the behaviour

  1. Create container with toolbox create <name>
  2. Enter newly created container with toolbox enter <name>
  3. See error

Expected behaviour I should enter the container.

Actual behaviour The error message failed to start container is shown

Output of toolbox --version (v0.0.90+) toolbox version 0.0.99.2

Toolbox package info (rpm -q toolbox) toolbox-0.0.99.2-7.fc34.x86_64

Output of podman version

Version:      3.3.1
API Version:  3.3.1
Go Version:   go1.16.6
Built:        Mon Aug 30 22:46:36 2021
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Podman package info (rpm -q podman) podman-3.3.1-1.fc34.x86_64

Info about your OS Fedora 34

Additional context Trying to start the container with podman using podman start nrf52840 results in the following error:

Error: unable to start container "28f9fb3e12c4927c32f700047c3db9529dc973c8acaf98dafbd99cc3d0bc076b": 
make `/home/davide/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/fc656c78681d2d3e51977006d82a4c54dfa98db28735fbc9549d328222213927/merged` private: 
Permission denied: OCI permission denied

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments: 15 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

And also by creating my root and home inside an LVM partition.

Does this have any real effect, though? I’m not sure.

I don’t know, worked for me.