Impossible to delete an image #15006

slemeur · 2022-07-21T08:58:52Z

/kind bug

Description

I have an image that I can't delete because Podman says it's currently in use by a container which does not exist.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Unfortunately, I'm not sure how I ended up in this situation.

Additional information you deem important (e.g. issue happens only occasionally):

Output of podman version:

podman version                                                                                                                 1 ✘  16m 26s 
Client:       Podman Engine
Version:      4.1.1
API Version:  4.1.1
Go Version:   go1.18.3
Built:        Tue Jun 14 22:12:46 2022
OS/Arch:      darwin/amd64

Server:       Podman Engine
Version:      4.0.2
API Version:  4.0.2
Go Version:   go1.16.14
Built:        Thu Mar  3 15:56:56 2022
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Output of podman images:

REPOSITORY                                   TAG                  IMAGE ID      CREATED        SIZE
docker.io/library/my-custom-image            latest               5be24218919b  7 minutes ago  578 MB
quay.io/podman/hello                         latest               9b0445929568  7 days ago     81.8 kB
<none>                                       <none>               1b6b53283e24  2 months ago   1.89 GB
docker.io/library/httpd                      latest               6b8e87fff107  4 months ago   148 MB
docker.io/bitnami/mariadb                    10.5.9-debian-10-r0  2df089982a8d  17 months ago  336 MB
quay.io/quarkus/centos-quarkus-maven         20.0.0-java11        b3e39ba63244  23 months ago  1.89 GB
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal  8.1-409              91d23a64fdf2  2 years ago    109 MB

Output of podman rmi:

podman rmi 1b6b53283e24                                              ✔ 
Error: Image used by 8ed9a6770b15351d30638e95729fe076d50ac89ac7ddfffa3efe3e855ac06506: image is in use by a container

Output of podman image inspect:

podman image inspect 1b6b53283e24                                                                        ✔ 
[
     {
          "Id": "1b6b53283e24f83803da6d5a5418b528670ab7f159bf69f0f25ecfcb23f11cb4",
          "Digest": "sha256:02fc108b1fe31621897182b5832fb3bb33e94e4c30fdf8aa3deff9361257a3f0",
          "RepoTags": [],
          "RepoDigests": [],
          "Parent": "4ef0b4011cf5ed78d20756f707a073cce66f75bf1025e011faf7706e01a4bd59",
          "Comment": "",
          "Created": "2022-05-03T14:58:14.919087242Z",
          "Config": {
               "User": "quarkus",
               "ExposedPorts": {
                    "8080/tcp": {}
               },
               "Env": [
                    "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/graalvm/bin",
                    "LANG=en_US.UTF-8",
                    "LANGUAGE=en_US:en",
                    "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8",
                    "QUARKUS_HOME=/home/quarkus",
                    "MAVEN_HOME=/usr/share/maven",
                    "MAVEN_OPTS=-XX:+TieredCompilation -XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1",
                    "MAVEN_VERSION=3.6.3",
                    "GRADLE_HOME=/usr/share/gradle",
                    "GRADLE_OPTS=-Dorg.gradle.daemon=false",
                    "GRADLE_VERSION=6.3",
                    "FILENAME=graalvm-ce-linux-amd64-20.0.0-java11.tar.gz",
                    "GRAALVM_HOME=/opt/graalvm",
                    "GRAALVM_VERSION=java11-20.0.0",
                    "JAVA_HOME=/opt/graalvm"
               ],
               "Entrypoint": [
                    "/usr/local/bin/entrypoint-run.sh"
               ],
               "Cmd": [
                    "mvn",
                    "-v"
               ],
               "WorkingDir": "/project",
               "Labels": {
                    "graalvm-archive-filename": "graalvm-ce-linux-amd64-20.0.0-java11.tar.gz",
                    "graalvm-archive-url": "https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases/download/vm-20.0.0/graalvm-ce-java11-linux-amd64-20.0.0.tar.gz",
                    "graalvm-version": "java11-20.0.0",
                    "io.buildah.version": "1.24.1",
                    "io.cekit.version": "3.7.0",
                    "io.k8s.description": "Quarkus.io builder image for building Quarkus applications.",
                    "io.k8s.display-name": "Centos + GraalVM + Maven Image",
                    "io.openshift.expose-services": "8080:http",
                    "io.openshift.tags": "builder,java,quarkus",
                    "maintainer": "Quarkus Team <quarkus-dev@googlegroups.com>",
                    "org.label-schema.build-date": "20200809",
                    "org.label-schema.license": "GPLv2",
                    "org.label-schema.name": "CentOS Base Image",
                    "org.label-schema.schema-version": "1.0",
                    "org.label-schema.vendor": "CentOS",
                    "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2020-08-09 00:00:00+01:00",
                    "org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "GPL-2.0-only",
                    "org.opencontainers.image.title": "CentOS Base Image",
                    "org.opencontainers.image.vendor": "CentOS"
               }
          },
          "Version": "",
          "Author": "",
          "Architecture": "amd64",
          "Os": "linux",
          "Size": 1889395209,
          "VirtualSize": 1889395209,
          "GraphDriver": {
               "Name": "overlay",
               "Data": {
                    "LowerDir": "/var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/17f08ab058211a61949b72e535871db9e9d736d715f57eb03ff638fc6b4217ba/diff:/var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/9e4f8b7d485422648a3b783ff7af81dda4cc72fc349317ecac2d6e445458f876/diff:/var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/2ed0b88d698a5b80d1e6d2e01c54626d9325ceab2a87f876050b561d03c25eaa/diff:/var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/613be09ab3c0860a5216936f412f09927947012f86bfa89b263dfa087a725f81/diff",
                    "UpperDir": "/var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/9d8cd1578897d624d16714529fe8a874525aa5a6b6cbbeea8836dadcdc0c9c86/diff",
                    "WorkDir": "/var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/9d8cd1578897d624d16714529fe8a874525aa5a6b6cbbeea8836dadcdc0c9c86/work"
               }
          },
          "RootFS": {
               "Type": "layers",
               "Layers": [
                    "sha256:613be09ab3c0860a5216936f412f09927947012f86bfa89b263dfa087a725f81",
                    "sha256:09bc1614a6b1e7dce4dbf68ebf3080d744b1a5a31a1cd75b867d8a82b263839b",
                    "sha256:dcc99d43921d1a06481595c055d6c1548af2018f386a8f0784581b5976bbc91d",
                    "sha256:9093d3ccc79eb49d95b7fffcc660e7884d17e4356c02d089a5814e624d9e4c4f",
                    "sha256:cbf51ce405b71d4341a990bf1a72c7189fb60d0357e3eab923728dd26593e01e"
               ]
          },
          "Labels": {
               "graalvm-archive-filename": "graalvm-ce-linux-amd64-20.0.0-java11.tar.gz",
               "graalvm-archive-url": "https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases/download/vm-20.0.0/graalvm-ce-java11-linux-amd64-20.0.0.tar.gz",
               "graalvm-version": "java11-20.0.0",
               "io.buildah.version": "1.24.1",
               "io.cekit.version": "3.7.0",
               "io.k8s.description": "Quarkus.io builder image for building Quarkus applications.",
               "io.k8s.display-name": "Centos + GraalVM + Maven Image",
               "io.openshift.expose-services": "8080:http",
               "io.openshift.tags": "builder,java,quarkus",
               "maintainer": "Quarkus Team <quarkus-dev@googlegroups.com>",
               "org.label-schema.build-date": "20200809",
               "org.label-schema.license": "GPLv2",
               "org.label-schema.name": "CentOS Base Image",
               "org.label-schema.schema-version": "1.0",
               "org.label-schema.vendor": "CentOS",
               "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2020-08-09 00:00:00+01:00",
               "org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "GPL-2.0-only",
               "org.opencontainers.image.title": "CentOS Base Image",
               "org.opencontainers.image.vendor": "CentOS"
          },
          "Annotations": {},
          "ManifestType": "application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json",
          "User": "quarkus",
          "History": [
               {
                    "created": "2020-08-10T18:20:08.948813347Z",
                    "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:61908381d3142ffba798ae9a904476d19b197ab79d0338f14bec0f76649df8d4 in / "
               },
               {
                    "created": "2020-08-10T18:20:09.298928893Z",
                    "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop)  LABEL org.label-schema.schema-version=1.0 org.label-schema.name=CentOS Base Image org.label-schema.vendor=CentOS org.label-schema.license=GPLv2 org.label-schema.build-date=20200809 org.opencontainers.image.title=CentOS Base Image org.opencontainers.image.vendor=CentOS org.opencontainers.image.licenses=GPL-2.0-only org.opencontainers.image.created=2020-08-09 00:00:00+01:00",
                    "empty_layer": true
               },
               {
                    "created": "2020-08-10T18:20:09.474278304Z",
                    "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop)  CMD [\"/bin/bash\"]",
                    "empty_layer": true
               },
               {
                    "created": "2020-08-23T01:31:38.706392Z"
               },
               {
                    "created": "2022-05-03T14:58:12.830020363Z",
                    "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) COPY dir:d3f231e9fb7da6c1dbbffe52d4d8c24610148c1bc81c4e9dec552f712bb84314 in /usr/src/app/src ",
                    "comment": "FROM quay.io/quarkus/centos-quarkus-maven:20.0.0-java11"
               },
               {
                    "created": "2022-05-03T14:58:13.539798645Z",
                    "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) COPY file:fe7e9e3df41c0be0c6a866c0c8e1ae66fae41795e4d806cd4e5c080e9794c833 in /usr/src/app "
               },
               {
                    "created": "2022-05-03T14:58:13.748106989Z",
                    "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) USER root",
                    "empty_layer": true
               },
               {
                    "created": "2022-05-03T14:58:14.69111845Z",
                    "created_by": "/bin/sh -c chown -R quarkus /usr/src/app"
               },
               {
                    "created": "2022-05-03T14:58:14.919696287Z",
                    "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) USER quarkus",
                    "empty_layer": true
               }
          ],
          "NamesHistory": [
               "docker.io/library/61f2f5fcc5ddcc045c8aeae8fd2929a500e40612eb6cebfae6f2c60c3a372fb5-tmp:latest"
          ]
     }
]

Output of podman ps -a:

empty list of containers

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Luap99 · 2022-07-21T09:06:25Z

Check with podman ps --external to see all containers including build container.
I think you can always remove the image with podman rmi --force

vrothberg · 2022-07-21T10:40:39Z

Yes, --force will remove containers (and pods) using the image.

vrothberg · 2022-08-04T12:25:24Z

@slemeur did using --force resolve the issue?

It can happen that a so-called "build container" from podman build is still hanging around and using the image. This may happen when, for instance, a build gets killed.

slemeur · 2022-08-04T12:27:08Z

Yes, I think it's exactly what happened indeed. with the --force option, I have been able to delete it. Thanks for helping out!

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On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 2:25 PM Valentin Rothberg ***@***.***> wrote: @slemeur <https://github.com/slemeur> did using --force resolve the issue? It can happen that a so-called "build container" from podman build is still hanging around and using the image. This may happen when, for instance, a build gets killed. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#15006 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAMPTIKYU5NRVOBNS7ZBWJDVXOZD5ANCNFSM54G2LRUA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

vrothberg · 2022-08-04T12:29:57Z

Glad to be of help. I was about to close the issue but I think we can improve the error message to guide users to force-removing images in that case.

vrothberg · 2022-08-04T13:00:31Z

Removing the macos label as it applies to all clients and OSes.

Trying to remove an image that is in use by containers is a confusing experience for users who may not be aware of "external" containers which are not displayed in `podman ps` by default (see containers/podman/issues/15006). Add some context to the error from containers/storage to guide the user into listing external containers and force-removing the image. Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <vrothberg@redhat.com>

Improve the error message when attempting to remove an image that is in use by an external/build container. Prior, the error only indicated that the image was in use but did not aid in resolving the issue. Fixes: containers#15006 Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <vrothberg@redhat.com>

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libimage: image removal: add hint to external containers containers/common#1111

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podman rmi: improve error message for build containers #15197

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Impossible to delete an image #15006

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Impossible to delete an image #15006

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