Can't enter containers after rebooting the host

[alxlg]

Hi, I can create new containers and enter them just one time.

When I try to enter a container for a second time with

distrobox-enter --name fedora-35 -- bash -l  

Error: unable to start container "fedora-35": container create failed (no logs from conmon): EOF

Cannot start container, does it exist?
Try running first:

    distrobox-create --name <name-of-container> --image <remote>/<docker>:<tag>
An error occurred

despite I have a container with that name:

podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                 COMMAND               CREATED       STATUS                   PORTS  NAMES
92bef478ff04  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:35  /usr/bin/entrypoi...  15 hours ago  Created                         fedora-35-2
e276c55031e7  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:35  /usr/bin/entrypoi...  19 hours ago  Exited (6) 19 hours ago         fedora-35

EDIT: what's trigger this is the reboot of the host, I can create new containers and enter them as far as I don't reboot the host. After the reboot all the previous containers can't be entered despite they are listed by podman ps.

[89luca89]

Hey @alxlg can you post a log with --verbose? thanks!

[89luca89]

Also @alxlg can you check your podman version?

I saw that there is a bug on podman for version prior to 1.6.4 here: containers/podman#4522

[alxlg]

@89luca89 podman version was 1.6.2 from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS repositories. I manually added the repository provided by Kubic project on Opensuse Build Service and got podman 3.4.2. Now I can indeed enter the containers.

Since it's a bug in outdated version of podman in Ubuntu LTS I guess you will just add a tip in the README to update podman in Ubuntu 20.04, no?

The commands I used are:

wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
source /etc/os-release
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/xUbuntu_${VERSION_ID}/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devel:kubic:libcontainers:stable.list"
sudo apt update -qq
sudo apt dist-upgrade

[89luca89]

Yea I'm on 20.04 too and was wondering if it was an ancient podman version 😄

Ok will add a link to the podman installation site in the requirements
Will mark the issue as resolved
Thanks for the report!

[89luca89]

Added in commit: dcc5cbe5e796139783de79784c210c8e34c40396