[root] podman events --events-backend=file now hanging forever

[edsantiago]

I seem to have managed to get my laptop in a state where this hangs forever (as in, over 8 minutes):

# podman --log-level=trace events --stream=false --events-backend=file 
....
DEBU[0000] Using OCI runtime "/usr/bin/crun"
INFO[0000] Setting parallel job count to 37
DEBU[0000] Initializing event backend file

It might've been while playing with #15698, but I've rm'ed the dotfile.

lsof on the process shows nothing useful, nor does strace. /run/libpod/events is empty. There is a /run/libpod/alive.lck, but rm'ing it has no effect, it just shows up again later. Only happens with --events-backend=file, journald or default are fine.

Is there a way to find out what podman is waiting for? Seems like an important missing log message.

[Luap99]

Duplicate of #15688? I found this while running your new --format test.
Basically if the file does not exists it just hangs until the file is created.

[edsantiago]

Nice. Yes, that's very clearly the same bug. Thank you!