First attempt at an Ubuntu toolbox container image. #298

kronenpj · 2019-10-13T22:51:11Z

This isn't as clean as the fedora/centos variants. There's also a problem on first run where toolbox
emits 'toolbox: failed to create /run/.toolboxenv in container' but runs normally from there.

This isn't as clean as the fedora/centos variants. There's also a problem on first run where toolbox emits 'toolbox: failed to create /run/.toolboxenv in container' but runs normally from there.

debarshiray

Thank you for working on this! It looks very good. Some comments below:

images/ubuntu/19.04/Dockerfile

debarshiray · 2019-10-14T14:23:29Z

images/ubuntu/19.04/Dockerfile

+      version="$VERSION" \
+      usage="This image is meant to be used with the toolbox command" \
+      summary="Base image for creating Ubuntu 19.04 toolbox containers" \
+      maintainer="Debarshi Ray <rishi@fedoraproject.org>"


May I convince you to be the maintainer of these Ubuntu images? :)

Probably not, I only use Centos and Fedora. Debian and its derivatives aren't anything I work with normally. I really just did this one as a demonstration.

Ok.

Before we announce support for Ubuntu, we would need somebody who cares enough about Ubuntu to ensure that Toolbox keeps working on a day to day basis with Ubuntu hosts and images. I am a little apprehensive of taking up that responsibility myself. I could, but it seems wise to spread the load around a bit.

Anyway, in the meantime, we can work towards removing the rough edges before thinking of making any announcements. :)

Sounds good to me.

images/ubuntu/19.04/Dockerfile

images/ubuntu/19.04/extra-packages

evan-a-a · 2019-10-27T00:12:29Z

I just spent about an hour putting together a Ubuntu toolbox container (using buildah) - then I found this! Looks like we came to the same conclusions on what's needed to make Ubuntu happy inside of podman/toolbox.

I do have an issue with sudo complaining about not being able to resolve the toolbox hostname. I'm guessing this is due to it not being listed in /etc/hosts, but it's the same for Fedora and no complaints there. Ubuntu must be more strict about hostnames in /etc/hosts.

nanonyme · 2019-10-27T08:08:28Z

About /etc/hosts https://github.com/containers/toolbox/blob/master/toolbox#L1079 it's supposed to get indirected. Maybe check if it's already a symlink in the image?

images/ubuntu/19.04/Dockerfile

debarshiray · 2019-10-29T17:47:54Z

images/ubuntu/19.04/extra-packages

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+bash-completion


I am curious. Did you check that these packages are the ones missing from the Ubuntu base image that are necessary to replicate the command line user experience on a usual Ubuntu host?

To be honest, I am not sure what's the most future-proof option here. We started off by trying to replicate the default Fedora Workstation/Silverblue CLI UX in the Toolbox images. However, now that we are adding other distributions, and supporting different variants of Fedora other than Silverblue and Workstation, I don't know what a freshly created container should have.

That's part of the reason I don't want to maintain the Ubuntu toolbox image. I don't actually use the distribution, so I can't say what a "usual" user experience would be for it.

images/ubuntu/19.04/README.md

evan-a-a · 2019-11-03T23:32:31Z

About /etc/hosts https://github.com/containers/toolbox/blob/master/toolbox#L1079 it's supposed to get indirected. Maybe check if it's already a symlink in the image?

It's being properly indirected inside the container, but /etc/hosts contains the hostname dockerhost but not toolbox.

markstos · 2019-12-26T17:20:28Z

Having a Ubuntu container could help driving conversions from Ubuntu users. It looks like this has been pending a review since early November. Supporting a Ubuntu LTS container would be great too.

markstos · 2020-01-03T18:37:01Z

I tested this image as follows:

I downloaded the files in images/ubuntu/19.04 to my home directory on Silverblue 31.
I ran podman build images/ubuntu/19.04. (I tried running podman build images/19.04/Dockerfile, but that segfault'ed)
I ran podman images to confirm the image was built and what the image ID was.
I ran toolbox create --container ubuntu-disco --image 703d46da649e to use the local image
I ran toolbox enter --container ubuntu-disco to enter the local container.

Unfortunately, the container exits immediately with an return value of 127. According to man podman-exec, this return status means contained command cannot be found.

Here's the final output of running the toolbox enter command with sh -x:

+ podman exec --interactive --tty --user mark --workdir /var/home/mark --env=COLORTERM=truecolor --env=DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus --env=DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome --env=DISPLAY=:0 --env=LANG=en_US.UTF-8 --env=SHELL=/bin/bash --env=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh --env=TERM=xterm-256color --env=VTE_VERSION=5803 --env=WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 --env=XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME --env=XDG_DATA_DIRS=/var/home/mark/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop --env=XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome- --env=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 --env=XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome --env=XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland --env=COLUMNS=158 --env=LINES=37 ubuntu-disco capsh --caps= -- -c 'exec "$@"' /bin/sh /bin/bash -l
+ ret_val=127
+ true
+ printf '\033]777;container;pop;;\033\'
+ exit 127
+ exit

kronenpj · 2020-01-04T21:46:02Z

@markstos: Looking into your concern. I can't get toolbox to create a container from the image number:

$ toolbox create --container ubuntu-disco --image e29401ae3372
toolbox: failed to get RepoTag for base image e29401ae3372

Once I tag that image, I can create the toolbox container:

$ podman tag e29401ae3372 ubuntu-tool
$ toolbox create --container ubuntu-disco --image ubuntu-tool
Created container: ubuntu-disco
Enter with: toolbox enter --container ubuntu-disco

The container then "works for me:"

$ toolbox enter --container ubuntu-disco
⬢[kronenpj@toolbox toolbox]$ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="19.04 (Disco Dingo)"
...

I'm not sure what's going on here. @debarshiray thoughts?

markstos · 2020-01-06T20:25:29Z

@kronenpj I got the image ID from the output of podman images. Is that where you got the value that failed as well?

kronenpj · 2020-01-07T01:09:25Z

@markstos Yes, I did leave that step out. I think it was actually podman image ls but it's the same output.

martinpitt · 2020-03-13T07:40:35Z

For anyone who wants to use ubuntu containers with toolbox now: I have a script that can build a debian or ubuntu container for any release from the stock dockerhub images.

markstos · 2020-03-13T15:38:38Z

@martinpitt Thanks. I see a comment in there about systemd. Does systemd work inside these containers?

I also see that libwww-perl is being installed as a dev tool. What's it used for these days? I used to install it to use the GET and HEAD binaries, but these days httpie seems like better HTTP CLI tool.

martinpitt · 2020-03-14T07:23:50Z

@markstos : systemd is not really being used in the containers. It's just commonly getting installed as a build dependency, and /var/log/journal/ being a bind mount to the real system confuses the package postinst script, so the package fails to install.

I forgot about the particular reason for libwww-perl, I think a tool like dget or dput needs it. I reduced dependencies with --no-install-recommends, but that was one which at least I need. You can of course try with dropping deps that you don't need, and just install them later on demand.

mjlbach · 2020-03-23T05:06:35Z

@martinpitt When I use your script to try to make an ubuntu container, I get the following error:

❯ bash make_debian_container.sh 18.04 ubuntu
+ RELEASE=18.04
+ DISTRO=ubuntu
+ toolbox rm -f 18.04
+ toolbox -y create -c 18.04 --image docker.io/ubuntu:18.04
Created container: 18.04
Enter with: toolbox enter --container 18.04
+ podman start 18.04
Error: unable to start container "18.04": error looking up supplemental groups for container 86982a6dffded63fb77cfe6c74a80e08f349012672d0de7ee9466817a93993fb: Unable to find group wheel

martinpitt · 2020-03-23T06:33:52Z

@mjlbach : Indeed I get the same now, on any Debian/Ubuntu release. That smells like a recent podman regression, I'll look into it this evening.

martinpitt · 2020-04-02T21:37:13Z

@mjlbach : I sent PR #401 to fix the sudo/wheel group issue.

heyakyra · 2021-01-21T21:33:27Z

What's the current status of this?

j1mc · 2021-03-11T16:30:23Z

I'm grateful everyone's work on this thus far. I know that Ubuntu might not be Redhat / Fedora folk's primary target here, but any update would be appreciated.

reesericci · 2021-07-08T01:20:22Z

What's the current status of this?

looking for the same

acmel · 2021-10-18T19:43:02Z

I'm also interested in running Ubuntu in a container on fedora silverblue, any update on this?

nanonyme · 2021-10-18T20:11:26Z

I'm not sure that use case will actually work until this project sorts out glibc compatibility issues

Jmennius · 2021-10-31T15:09:20Z

Please try images from #483 PR - they should be more complete and few recent LTS releases are available.

debarshiray · 2021-12-01T16:58:31Z

Hey @kronenpj did you receive my email to your kronenpj@gmail.com inbox earlier this year to work out the specifics of offering out-of-the-box Ubuntu support? It was titled Toolbox: Ubuntu suport, and was from rishi.is@lostca.se.

debarshiray · 2021-12-01T17:08:18Z

Hey @kronenpj did you receive my email to your kronenpj@gmail.com
inbox earlier this year to work out the specifics of offering out-of-the-box
Ubuntu support? It was titled Toolbox: Ubuntu suport, and was from
rishi.is@lostca.se.

My apologies. I just remembered that you had already mentioned on this pull request that you don't want to maintain the Ubuntu support because you don't actually use it and you only did it as a demo.

I have marked those conversation threads as unresolved so that they don't get hidden in the noise.

debarshiray · 2021-12-01T17:10:04Z

I am closing this pull request since @kronenpj doesn't want to maintain the Ubuntu support long-term, and we can't merge stuff that has nobody maintaining it.

debarshiray · 2021-12-01T17:10:26Z

Let's focus on #483 which is more active. :)

First attempt at an Ubuntu toolbox container image.

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This isn't as clean as the fedora/centos variants. There's also a problem on first run where toolbox emits 'toolbox: failed to create /run/.toolboxenv in container' but runs normally from there.

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