Toolbox fails to start on Fedora 35

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#1

Thought I would give Fedora 35 Silverblue a try but ran into a glitch right away. Seems none of my toolboxes (33 or 34) will start with the output below. Also podman isn’t listing any images except the toolbox I had tried to start. (There should be a couple dozen there) Of course the nice thing with Silverblue is you can try stuff and back out. Wondering if there is anything reported on this or anything else I needed to do before rebasing.

[bkelly@xps ~]$ podman images ls --all
REPOSITORY       TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED      SIZE
localhost/tools  34          8dee601b6e96  7 weeks ago  4.07 GB
[bkelly@xps ~]$

[bkelly@xps ~]$ toolbox -c tools -v enter
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 bkelly
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 /var/home/bkelly/.config/toolbox
DEBU Current Podman version is 3.3.0
DEBU Creating runtime directory /run/user/1000/toolbox
DEBU Old Podman version is 3.3.1
DEBU Migration not needed: Podman version 3.3.0 is old
DEBU Setting up configuration
DEBU Setting up configuration: file /var/home/bkelly/.config/containers/toolbox.conf not found
DEBU Resolving image name
DEBU Distribution (CLI): ''
DEBU Image (CLI): ''
DEBU Release (CLI): ''
DEBU Resolved image name
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:35'
DEBU Release: '35'
DEBU Resolving container name
DEBU Container: ''
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:35'
DEBU Release: '35'
DEBU Resolved container name
DEBU Container: 'fedora-toolbox-35'
DEBU Resolving image name
DEBU Distribution (CLI): ''
DEBU Image (CLI): ''
DEBU Release (CLI): ''
DEBU Resolved image name
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:35'
DEBU Release: '35'
DEBU Resolving container name
DEBU Container: 'tools'
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:35'
DEBU Release: '35'
DEBU Resolved container name
DEBU Container: 'tools'
DEBU Checking if container tools exists
DEBU Inspecting mounts of container tools
DEBU Starting container tools
DEBU Inspecting entry point of container tools
DEBU Entry point PID is a float64
DEBU Entry point of container tools is toolbox (PID=0)
Error: invalid entry point PID of container tools
#2

Toolbox works on Fedora 35, but it only works with Fedora 35 in the toolboxes. You can’t run other versions. It looks like it’s a glibc ABI thing.

Main bug is at:

A solution would be to statically compile the toolbox-init-container helper:

This is proposed as a blocker for Fedora 35 @
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1995439

Meanwhile, if you’re going to run Fedora 35 beta, make sure to run Fedora 35 in toolbox (and make sure you have a recent version of the Fedora 35 toolbox image too, in case you pulled it a few days ago or more, as older versions were still set as rawhide and not F35).

You can make sure you have the latest Fedora 35 toolbox image by running:

podman pull registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:35

It’s a bit of a hassle, but they know about the issue and will hopefully be able to fix it soon.

Meanwhile, it seems there’s possibly a solution using a libc wrapper @ https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/832, so we might get the fix soon.

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