[macOS] Error: could not get runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory #4364

amitkrout · 2019-10-29T13:25:47Z

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

/kind bug

Description

Steps to reproduce the issue:

$ brew cask install podman
$ podman pull ubuntu

Describe the results you received:

$ podman pull ubuntu
Error: could not get runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory

Describe the results you expected:
should not throw runtime error

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

Output of podman version:

$ podman version
Client:
Version:            1.6.1-dev
RemoteAPI Version:  1
Go Version:         go1.12.9
OS/Arch:            darwin/amd64

Service:
Error: could not get runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory

Output of podman info --debug:

$ podman info --debug
Error: could not get runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory

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

(paste your output here)

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

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amitkrout · 2019-10-29T13:27:09Z

/remove feature

rhatdan · 2019-10-29T13:44:12Z

You need to configure a Linux system to be accessible by podman for podman on MAC to work.

amitkrout · 2019-10-29T15:20:06Z

@rhatdan It would be really helpful if you share some kind of doc reference of what you suggest

rhatdan · 2019-10-30T17:12:13Z

@jwhonce is preparing such a document now.

ssbarnea · 2019-11-14T08:51:50Z

Did you managed to get a signed podman, my testing of podman got stuck at #4511

ag1989 · 2019-11-14T21:27:09Z

Did you managed to get a signed podman, my testing of podman got stuck at #4511

Nope, still not properly signed...

amitkrout · 2019-11-26T13:17:44Z

Did you managed to get a signed podman, my testing of podman got stuck at #4511

Nope, still not properly signed...

FYI... In case you are using macOS Catalina
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09032019a

zekaguilar · 2019-11-29T22:47:12Z

Hi, I've got stuck here too, any draft to share @jwhonce ?
Thanks !

MrBuddyCasino · 2019-12-04T09:36:34Z

Would be interested in how to get podman running on macOS, too. Any hints?

guiguir68 · 2019-12-04T21:22:42Z

Same problem here. Waiting for you @jwhonce :)

podman version 1.6.1-dev (installed with brew cask)
macOS Catalina 10.15.1

sachingorade · 2019-12-05T10:21:11Z

@jwhonce is preparing such a document now.

Please post the link if its partially done too (to at least get podman working :) )

Thanks.

misanche · 2019-12-10T08:47:32Z

waiting the document too :)

jwhonce · 2019-12-10T15:46:10Z

I don't have access to Catalina, so these are my best guesses until I do:

# xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /usr/local/bin/podman
Or,
# xattr -d com.apple.quarantine readlink /usr/local/bin/podman
should get you over the signing issue. Then setting PODMAN_VARLINK_BRIDGE to point to your linux server.

$ export PODMAN_VARLINK_BRIDGE=$'ssh -T -p22 root@localhost -- "varlink -A \'podman varlink \$VARLINK_ADDRESS\' bridge"'

Note that in the above example the macos user has provided the linux server with their ssh public key for access without a password. And yes, varlink is called twice. Once, for the ssh-tunnel the other is doing the actual work. I hope this helps.

zhuguoliang · 2019-12-24T02:44:26Z

Got stuck here too

Client:
Version: 1.6.1-dev
RemoteAPI Version: 1
Go Version: go1.12.9
OS/Arch: darwin/amd64
Service:
Error: could not get runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory

lokinell · 2019-12-24T05:13:50Z

I have the same problem.

ssbarnea · 2019-12-25T10:53:21Z

I can give ssh access to a MacOS Catalina with latest xcode and homebrew if any libpod developer for debugging libpod building.

I suspect that building podman for macos will be a real struggle if we build inside a linux vm code that later runs on macos. I bet is not possible to sign that binaries from within the linux vm.

davinkevin · 2020-01-02T13:32:42Z

The same problem for me on a fresh macOS Catalina install with only Podman installed (with brew cask).

Very sad to not be able to replace the docker-cli with it now...

andreufontb · 2020-01-03T16:16:48Z

The macOS catalina filesystem is mounted in a readonly partition. It looks like podman is triyng to set run time in this partition.

$ sudo mkdir -p /run/podman
mkdir: /run/podman: Read-only file system

Installing version 1.6.3 i get a more

Client:
Version: 1.6.3-dev
RemoteAPI Version: 1
Go Version: go1.12.10
Git Commit: 6c6e783
Built: Tue Oct 29 20:08:11 2019
OS/Arch: darwin/amd64

Service:
Error: error creating libpod runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory

rhatdan · 2020-01-04T11:37:43Z

Podman expects /run to be mounted as a tmpfs and be writeable.

afbjorklund · 2020-01-04T16:30:27Z

It also expects it to contain a unix socket, which it probably wont.

Exposing the socket file from the VM to the Mac host is a big hassle...
Docker does this *, but I'm not sure that Podman has the same need.

Probably easier to just use the varlink protocol (over ssh) instead ?

Seems like the original root cause is the missing environment variables.
Without the remote config, it will assume it is running on a Linux host.

It needs the PODMAN_VARLINK_BRIDGE set up

For instance: podman-machine env --varlink

afbjorklund · 2020-01-04T16:42:07Z

@jwhonce : did you complete any docs, on how to set up the Linux virtual machine ?

Here is one link that I found: https://medium.com/@bszeti/podman-and-skopeo-on-macos-1b3b9cf21e60

It uses VirtualBox, to create a Fedora VM and then install ssh and podman packages.

Similar to this setup: https://podman.io/blogs/2019/01/14/podman-machine-and-boot2podman.html

ipbabble · 2020-01-21T19:07:46Z

@amitkrout I followed the instructions here and got it to work:
https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/docs/tutorials/remote_client.md

But FYI export that env var for the link. I'm not sure why the doc shows it the way it does.

jwhonce · 2020-01-27T23:36:11Z

@ipbabble #4997 updates the documentation for setting up the varlink bridge.

vrothberg · 2020-01-31T10:42:53Z

@jwhonce, is this issue resolved with the latest updates to the docs?

vrothberg · 2020-03-24T09:43:04Z

@TomSweeneyRedHat WDYT?

TomSweeneyRedHat · 2020-03-24T13:45:32Z

Sure, always happy to take a PR.

Aisuko · 2020-03-28T02:05:47Z

I hit the same issue, Is there any update for this issue?

➜  ~ podman version
Client:
Version:            1.6.1-dev
RemoteAPI Version:  1
Go Version:         go1.12.9
OS/Arch:            darwin/amd64

Service:
Error: could not get runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory

ahmetb · 2020-03-28T04:31:29Z

I won't be able to provide a PR, I am hoping maintainers can jump in.

We've had comments in containers/podman#4364 that it's unclear that we don't actually run Podman on Windows and Mac, rather it runs only on Linux and you need remote clients on the other platforms. This updates the whatis document to hopefully clarify. Signed-off-by: TomSweeneyRedHat <tsweeney@redhat.com>

TomSweeneyRedHat · 2020-03-28T15:52:40Z

Clarified (hopefully) in containers/podman.io#210

We've had comments in containers/podman#4364 that it's unclear that we don't actually run Podman on Windows and Mac, rather it runs only on Linux and you need remote clients on the other platforms. This updates the whatis document to hopefully clarify. Signed-off-by: TomSweeneyRedHat <tsweeney@redhat.com>

TomSweeneyRedHat · 2020-04-16T21:53:02Z

containers/podman.io#210 has merged fwiw

abdennour · 2020-12-28T22:01:01Z

still have same issue with this Mac:

should i upgrade ? or is it podman issue ?

➜  ~ podman version
Error: Get "http://d/v2.0.0/libpod/_ping": dial unix ///var/folders/4s/ch8k_58x04l59gv_p4jfq6lr0000gn/T/podman-run--1/podman/podman.sock: connect: no such file or directory

balupton · 2021-01-06T19:29:28Z

Seems the issue has come back: https://stackoverflow.com/q/65590560/130638

> brew install podman
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 2 taps (homebrew/core and homebrew/cask).
==> Updated Formulae
Updated 15 formulae.
==> Updated Casks
Updated 7 casks.

Warning: podman 2.2.1 is already installed and up-to-date
To reinstall 2.2.1, run `brew reinstall podman`

> podman search ubuntu
Error: Get "http://d/v2.0.0/libpod/_ping": dial unix ///var/folders/m8/rbkj8qcs29b3spxl9658d0dm0000gn/T/podman-run--1/podman/podman.sock: connect: no such file or directory

I'm running Big Sur 11.1 (20C69)

Here's my uname:

Darwin redacted 20.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.2.0: Wed Dec  2 20:39:59 PST 2020; root:xnu-7195.60.75~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

balupton · 2021-01-06T19:34:18Z

never mind, user error, hadn't yet configured the remote client connection:

https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/master/docs/tutorials/mac_win_client.md

ssbarnea · 2021-01-06T19:39:45Z

Considering the number of users encountering this cryptic error, I would reopen this issue and assure that when we fail with it, we also print a descriptive message, maybe one with a link to documentation page.

balupton · 2021-01-06T20:01:43Z

Considering the number of users encountering this cryptic error, I would reopen this issue and assure that when we fail with it, we also print a descriptive message, maybe one with a link to documentation page.

I'd also update https://podman.io/getting-started/ to have a section within Familiarizing yourself with Podman about the operating system support and the remote client called Operating system compatibility

As I think most people see installation part there, and be like, okay, nevermind, I've already got podman successfully installed via brew, so I don't need to look at that, and jump directly into the usage.

afbjorklund · 2021-01-06T21:06:14Z

Or just make the error message look like Docker, then everyone would recognize it ? #7301 (comment)

Cannot connect to the Podman service at unix:///run/podman/podman.sock. Is the podman.service running?

For what it is worth, it is the same story on Linux (when you run the same program, podman-remote)

$ podman-remote version
Error: Get "http://d/v2.0.0/libpod/_ping": dial unix ///run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock: connect: no such file or directory

rhatdan · 2021-01-08T16:09:01Z

How about
./bin/podman-remote images
Error: Cannot connect to the Podman socket. Is the podman service running?: Get "http://d/v2.0.0/libpod/_ping": dial unix ///run/user/3267/podman/podman.sock: connect: connection refused

rhatdan · 2021-01-08T16:13:10Z

Actually I like this better.
Error: Cannot connect to the Podman socket, make sure their is a podman service running.: Get "http://d/v2.0.0/libpod/_ping": dial unix ///run/user/3267/podman/podman.sock: connect: connection refused

rhatdan · 2021-01-08T16:21:23Z

#8915

JudeNiroshan · 2021-08-19T21:48:56Z

For some people like me who couldn't really understand why brew install podman didn't work, the answer is, there should be linux virtual machine in order to run the podman. So, what the official documentation suggesting is for all MacOS and Windows users to spin up a linux virtual machine and connect your podman with that VM. That VM is acting as a backend server for your podman program.

For MacOS users can simply run these commands which install podman + virtual machine program(qemu) to spin up a linux VM.

  brew install podman 
  brew install qemu 
  podman machine init 
  podman machine start

rhatdan · 2021-08-24T10:55:49Z

Where should we document this to make it easier to understand?

rhatdan · 2021-08-24T10:58:44Z

@ashley-cui @baude WDYT of adding a --now flag to podman machine init?

systemctl enable --now foo.service

Is what I base the idea on.

Then the instructions could be simplified to
brew install podman
brew install qemu
podman machine init --now

kspendli · 2022-10-03T10:00:22Z

i used below steps to resolve.

Removed podman brew uninstall podman
Removed containers files from the following directories:
rm -rf ~/.config/containers/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/containers

rm ~/.ssh/podman* related files
Reinstalled podman using brew brew install podman
Init the podman machine and start it.

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[macOS] Error: could not get runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory #4364

[macOS] Error: could not get runtime: dial unix /run/podman/io.podman: connect: no such file or directory #4364

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