Podman machine start fails with 'no such file or directory', reboot resolves issue on Mac M1

[holly-cummins]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (leave only one on its own line)

/kind bug

Description

We are seeing an issue on a self-hosted github runner, on Mac M1. If it's not already running, we start the podman machine at the start of the github job,

podman machine info | grep Running ||podman machine start

Usually this works, but at some point after a few days the machine gets into a state where it won't start. Rebooting fixes the issue, but it would be nice to identify a less drastic workaround.

Starting machine "podman-machine-default"
Error: dial unix /var/folders/mq/dx78dkw10dv2hb0fm0qvchqm0000gp/T/podman/qmp_podman-machine-default.sock: connect: no such file or directory
Error: Process completed with exit code 125.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Sorry, this isn't super-reproducible since it only happens after a while. We see the issue when the machine has been running for a few days, but then stops (crashes?) and won't start correctly. I don't have logs for why it stops.

Output of podman version:

4.2.1

Output of podman info:

host:
  arch: arm64
  buildahVersion: 1.27.0
  cgroupControllers:
  - cpuset
  - cpu
  - io
  - memory
  - pids
  - misc
  cgroupManager: systemd
  cgroupVersion: v2
  conmon:
    package: conmon-2.1.4-2.fc36.aarch64
    path: /usr/bin/conmon
    version: 'conmon version 2.1.4, commit: '
  cpuUtilization:
    idlePercent: 99.44
    systemPercent: 0.36
    userPercent: 0.2
  cpus: 1
  distribution:
    distribution: fedora
    variant: coreos
    version: "36"
  eventLogger: journald
  hostname: localhost.localdomain
  idMappings:
    gidmap: null
    uidmap: null
  kernel: 5.19.12-200.fc36.aarch64
  linkmode: dynamic
  logDriver: journald
  memFree: 1051627520
  memTotal: 2051641344
  networkBackend: netavark
  ociRuntime:
    name: crun
    package: crun-1.6-2.fc36.aarch64
    path: /usr/bin/crun
    version: |-
      crun version 1.6
      commit: 18cf2efbb8feb2b2f20e316520e0fd0b6c41ef4d
      spec: 1.0.0
      +SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +CRIU +YAJL
  os: linux
  remoteSocket:
    exists: true
    path: /run/podman/podman.sock
  security:
    apparmorEnabled: false
    capabilities: CAP_CHOWN,CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE,CAP_FOWNER,CAP_FSETID,CAP_KILL,CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_SETFCAP,CAP_SETGID,CAP_SETPCAP,CAP_SETUID,CAP_SYS_CHROOT
    rootless: false
    seccompEnabled: true
    seccompProfilePath: /usr/share/containers/seccomp.json
    selinuxEnabled: true
  serviceIsRemote: true
  slirp4netns:
    executable: /usr/bin/slirp4netns
    package: slirp4netns-1.2.0-0.2.beta.0.fc36.aarch64
    version: |-
      slirp4netns version 1.2.0-beta.0
      commit: 477db14a24ff1a3de3a705e51ca2c4c1fe3dda64
      libslirp: 4.6.1
      SLIRP_CONFIG_VERSION_MAX: 3
      libseccomp: 2.5.3
  swapFree: 0
  swapTotal: 0
  uptime: 0h 57m 27.00s
plugins:
  authorization: null
  log:
  - k8s-file
  - none
  - passthrough
  - journald
  network:
  - bridge
  - macvlan
  volume:
  - local
registries:
  search:
  - docker.io
store:
  configFile: /usr/share/containers/storage.conf
  containerStore:
    number: 6
    paused: 0
    running: 0
    stopped: 6
  graphDriverName: overlay
  graphOptions:
    overlay.mountopt: nodev,metacopy=on
  graphRoot: /var/lib/containers/storage
  graphRootAllocated: 106825756672
  graphRootUsed: 7693189120
  graphStatus:
    Backing Filesystem: xfs
    Native Overlay Diff: "false"
    Supports d_type: "true"
    Using metacopy: "true"
  imageCopyTmpDir: /var/tmp
  imageStore:
    number: 5
  runRoot: /run/containers/storage
  volumePath: /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes
version:
  APIVersion: 4.2.1
  Built: 1662580765
  BuiltTime: Wed Sep  7 15:59:25 2022
  GitCommit: ""
  GoVersion: go1.18.5
  Os: linux
  OsArch: linux/arm64
  Version: 4.2.1

Package info (e.g. output of rpm -q podman or apt list podman or brew info podman):

githubactions@administrators-Mac-mini ~ % brew info podman
==> podman: stable 4.2.1 (bottled), HEAD
Tool for managing OCI containers and pods
https://podman.io/
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/podman/4.2.1 (178 files, 48MB) *
  Poured from bottle on 2022-09-12 at 05:57:08
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/podman.rb
License: Apache-2.0
==> Dependencies
Build: go-md2man ✘, go@1.18 ✘
Required: qemu ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
	Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
zsh completions have been installed to:
  /opt/homebrew/share/zsh/site-functions
==> Analytics
install: 20,082 (30 days), 64,183 (90 days), 212,333 (365 days)
install-on-request: 19,372 (30 days), 62,488 (90 days), 210,270 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)

Have you tested with the latest version of Podman and have you checked the Podman Troubleshooting Guide? (https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/troubleshooting.md)

Yes

Additional environment details (AWS, VirtualBox, physical, etc.):

This is a Mac M1.

[github-actions]

A friendly reminder that this issue had no activity for 30 days.

[rhatdan]

@baude do you think this is a leak in gvisor or somewhere else?

[github-actions]

A friendly reminder that this issue had no activity for 30 days.

[github-actions]

A friendly reminder that this issue had no activity for 30 days.

[cameronmitchellapps]

+1 I have also been experiencing this issue. For me it seems to happen often after the laptop is restarted

[vrothberg]

This issue should have been fixed by now. The start+stop sequences have been made much more robust in the meantime.