Devconatiners using docker compose files hang when starting up using Docker v29.0.0

[jorisguex]

After updating to docker v29.0.0 (https://github.com/moby/moby/releases/tag/docker-v29.0.0), my devcontainers that use docker compose files started to hang when starting up.

Reproducible Example:

$ cat docker-compose.yml
services:
  container:
    container_name: container
    image: debian
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true

$ cat .devcontainer/devcontainer.json
{
    "workspaceFolder": "${localWorkspaceFolder}",
    "dockerComposeFile": ["${localWorkspaceFolder}/docker-compose.yml"],
    "service": "container"
}

$ devcontainer up --remove-existing-container --workspace-folder .
...
[+] Running 1/1
 ✔ Container container  Started                                                                                        0.2s
^C

It seems like this is because of the following deprecation:

GET /events no longer includes the deprecated status, id, and from fields. These fields were removed in API v1.22, but still included in the response. These fields are now omitted when using API v1.52 or later.

Manually patching line 182 of src/spec-node/utils.ts to be (info.status || info.Status || info.Action) === 'start' seemed to fix the issue, but not sure if this might have other unintended side effects.

[Kaniska244]

Hello @jorisguex

Thank you for reporting this issue and the detailed analysis done for the same. We are looking into it further. Will update on the findings as we have more details.

[cawolfdev]

Seems that this is caused by moby/moby#50832
Really wish that they would test common implementations. IT wasted a full day triaging, and then needing to downgrade installations.

@jorisguex that patch works wonderfully btw. Was nice as a quick fix.

[Kaniska244]

For further documentation of this issue:

In previous Docker v28.5.1, docker container start event returns the following payload with status attribute.

{
  status: "start",
  id: "edd92b3eae24c0165702d50c57c7f6bb2327c528f2f9d2bac0c2085f9e9be900",
  from: "vsc-example-1c9b39a06f4f7869a07240de11d5c8666747d29b8f272789455ffed5fd3104a1-features-uid",
  Type: "container",
  Action: "start",
  Actor: {
    ID: "edd92b3eae24c0165702d50c57c7f6bb2327c528f2f9d2bac0c2085f9e9be900",
    Attributes: {
      "dev.containers.id": "base-debian",
      "dev.containers.release": "v0.4.19",
      "dev.containers.source": "https://github.com/devcontainers/images",
      "dev.containers.timestamp": "Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:37:09 GMT",
      "dev.containers.variant": "trixie",
      "devcontainer.config_file": "/workspaces/cli/src/test/configs/example/.devcontainer.json",
      "devcontainer.local_folder": "/workspaces/cli/src/test/configs/example",
      "devcontainer.metadata": "[ {\"id\":\"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/common-utils:2\"}, {\"id\":\"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/git:1\",\"customizations\":{\"vscode\":{\"settings\":{\"github.copilot.chat.codeGeneration.instructions\":[{\"text\":\"This dev container includes an up-to-date version of Git, built from source as needed, pre-installed and available on the `PATH`.\"}]}}}}, {\"remoteUser\":\"vscode\"}, {\"id\":\"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/go:1\",\"init\":true,\"capAdd\":[\"SYS_PTRACE\"],\"securityOpt\":[\"seccomp=unconfined\"],\"customizations\":{\"vscode\":{\"extensions\":[\"golang.Go\"],\"settings\":{\"github.copilot.chat.codeGeneration.instructions\":[{\"text\":\"This dev container includes Go and common Go utilities pre-installed and available on the `PATH`, along with the Go language extension for Go development.\"}]}}}} ]",
      image: "vsc-example-1c9b39a06f4f7869a07240de11d5c8666747d29b8f272789455ffed5fd3104a1-features-uid",
      name: "quirky_shannon",
      version: "2.0.2",
    },
  },
  scope: "local",
  time: 1762939848,
  timeNano: 1762939848055180500,
}


@Kaniska244 ➜ /workspaces/cli (docker-v29-issue-old) $ docker version
Client:
 Version:           28.5.1-1
 API version:       1.51
 Go version:        go1.24.7
 Git commit:        e180ab8ab82d22b7895a3e6e110cf6dd5c45f1d7
 Built:             Wed Oct  8 02:50:32 UTC 2025
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           default

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:          28.5.1-1
  API version:      1.51 (minimum version 1.24)
  Go version:       go1.24.7
  Git commit:       f8215cc266744ef195a50a70d427c345da2acdbb
  Built:            Wed Oct  8 02:34:32 2025
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.7.29-1
  GitCommit:        442cb34bda9a6a0fed82a2ca7cade05c5c749582
 runc:
  Version:          1.3.3-1
  GitCommit:        d842d7719497cc3b774fd71620278ac9e17710e0
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0
@Kaniska244 ➜ /workspaces/cli (docker-v29-issue-old) $ 

In latest Docker v29.0.0 with API version 1.52, docker container start event returns the following payload without status, id and from attributes.

{
  Type: "container",
  Action: "start",
  Actor: {
    ID: "b1995f50dc0a2bae015cd83d91e1c908b4d4715cec343bb48fcccb510182d1bd",
    Attributes: {
      "dev.containers.id": "base-debian",
      "dev.containers.release": "v0.4.19",
      "dev.containers.source": "https://github.com/devcontainers/images",
      "dev.containers.timestamp": "Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:37:09 GMT",
      "dev.containers.variant": "trixie",
      "devcontainer.config_file": "/workspaces/cli/src/test/configs/example/.devcontainer.json",
      "devcontainer.local_folder": "/workspaces/cli/src/test/configs/example",
      "devcontainer.metadata": "[ {\"id\":\"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/common-utils:2\"}, {\"id\":\"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/git:1\",\"customizations\":{\"vscode\":{\"settings\":{\"github.copilot.chat.codeGeneration.instructions\":[{\"text\":\"This dev container includes an up-to-date version of Git, built from source as needed, pre-installed and available on the `PATH`.\"}]}}}}, {\"remoteUser\":\"vscode\"}, {\"id\":\"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/go:1\",\"init\":true,\"capAdd\":[\"SYS_PTRACE\"],\"securityOpt\":[\"seccomp=unconfined\"],\"customizations\":{\"vscode\":{\"extensions\":[\"golang.Go\"],\"settings\":{\"github.copilot.chat.codeGeneration.instructions\":[{\"text\":\"This dev container includes Go and common Go utilities pre-installed and available on the `PATH`, along with the Go language extension for Go development.\"}]}}}} ]",
      image: "vsc-example-1c9b39a06f4f7869a07240de11d5c8666747d29b8f272789455ffed5fd3104a1-features-uid",
      name: "laughing_keller",
      version: "2.0.2",
    },
  },
  scope: "local",
  time: 1762937285,
  timeNano: 1762937285126600700,
}


@Kaniska244 ➜ /workspaces/cli (docker-v29-issue) $ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           29.0.0
 API version:       1.52
 Go version:        go1.25.4
 Git commit:        3d4129b
 Built:             Mon Nov 10 21:46:24 2025
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           default

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          29.0.0
  API version:      1.52 (minimum version 1.44)
  Go version:       go1.25.4
  Git commit:       d105562
  Built:            Mon Nov 10 21:46:24 2025
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v2.1.5
  GitCommit:        fcd43222d6b07379a4be9786bda52438f0dd16a1
 runc:
  Version:          1.3.3
  GitCommit:        v1.3.3-0-gd842d771
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0
@Kaniska244 ➜ /workspaces/cli (docker-v29-issue) $ 

This above change is done by PR as part of the docker v29.0.0 release as already mentioned in the previous comments.

[chrmarti]

I have published the Dev Containers extension for VS Code with the proposed fix as 0.433.0-pre-release. We will work on getting a fix version of the CLI (and a stable version of the VS Code extension) out.

[chrmarti]

Dev Containers CLI 0.80.2 and Dev Containers extension 0.431.1 now also have the fix.

Thanks @Kaniska244 for the fix!