unable to build: NCR260VT300WPP: too many levels of symbolic links

[mosoriob]

Describe the bug

~/.mint ❯ dame run hand_v2_raster
Information about the model configuration
Inputs
- input-dem: No information
Parameters
- threshold: 500
Docker Image
- Name: mintproject/hand:v2.1.0 - https://hub.docker.com/r/mintproject/hand
Component Location
- Link: https://github.com/mintproject/HAND-TauDEM/raw/v2.1.4/hand_v2_mint_component.zip
To run this model configuration, a input-dem file (.tif file) is required.
Please enter a url for it: https://github.com/dhardestylewis/HAND-TauDEM/raw/master/regions/Texas/Travis-10m/Travis-DEM-10m-HUC120902050408buf.tif
The information needed to run the model is complete, and I can execute the model as follows:
Invocation command
cd executions/hand_v2_raster_643e8902-8a33-11ea-b216-faffc21691f4/hand_v2_mint_component/src
/usr/local/bin/singularity exec docker://mintproject/hand:v2.1.0 ./run  -i1 Travis-DEM-10m-HUC120902050408buf.tif  -o1 distance-down.tif -o3 shape.shp -o4 geojson.json -o2 distance-down-raster.tif  -p1 500
Do you want to proceed and submit it for execution? [Y/n]:
2020-04-29 09:06:41,245 root         INFO     Execution hand_v2_raster running,  check the logs on executions/hand_v2_raster_643e8902-8a33-11ea-b216-faffc21691f4/output.log
[hand_v2_raster] The execution has failed
~/.mint ❯ cat executions/hand_v2_raster_643e8902-8a33-11ea-b216-faffc21691f4/output.log                                                                    took 7m 45s
INFO:    Converting OCI blobs to SIF format
INFO:    Starting build...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b8f262c62ec67f02536f49654de586c022043652bbb6bbf76a8dab1542627a8d
 25.84 MiB / 25.84 MiB [====================================================] 1s
Copying blob sha256:0a43c0154f168ca6fe36f31e366dc85ba2f95da95a9bf69399d927d513d501f9
 76.37 MiB / 76.37 MiB [====================================================] 3s
Copying blob sha256:906d7b5da8fb08f9d6c98d3e7df1d621d03d249c26524b64b09641b1f70fc27e
 48.80 MiB / 48.80 MiB [====================================================] 1s
Copying blob sha256:44d594344f814f6d0c9a4b3e29401d95e69e922cb82d64243c6903e7fbf29ef8
 358.43 MiB / 358.43 MiB [=================================================] 14s
Copying blob sha256:4f3be302f998049e0b99b2c35ad2f1a83b5a7cdab312eedfe45756e7a5cc0ee3
 2.47 MiB / 2.47 MiB [======================================================] 0s
Copying blob sha256:a94fae2a8e469d623e81b3411bf49ddc10a44b6bf7ca9365765c776aeaeb310b
 251 B / 251 B [============================================================] 0s
Copying blob sha256:317585371b91274d79682e1376b49f762cefc80b30dd5a03d0ca7e58f9841799
 1.10 GiB / 1.10 GiB [===================================================] 2m25s
Copying blob sha256:4614779006c97a96c0eb2060de91010107721db2d1fad2d7e0e4fb79d095f5a8
 2.47 MiB / 2.47 MiB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:a30ab4e97d6e18f11eedb37f95f23fbfe1a9c4be5df0f635544307492f5ed92e
 3.77 KiB / 3.77 KiB [======================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
FATAL:   Unable to handle docker://mintproject/hand:v2.1.0 uri: unable to build: packer failed to pack: while unpacking tmpfs: unpack: error extracting layer: link /var/folders/pf/4j2w8m9x5_19r08n39_t9nc40000gn/T/sbuild-180433821/fs/opt/conda/pkgs/ncurses-6.1-hf484d3e_1002/share/terminfo/N/NCR260VT300WPP /var/folders/pf/4j2w8m9x5_19r08n39_t9nc40000gn/T/sbuild-180433821/fs/opt/conda/share/terminfo/N/NCR260VT300WPP: too many levels of symbolic links

To Reproduce
Run:

$ dame run hand_v2_raster

Additional context

In Linux, we don't have problem.

(.venv)  node1 ~ dame run hand_v2_raster
Information about the model configuration
Inputs
- input-dem: No information
Parameters
- threshold: 500
Docker Image
- Name: mintproject/hand:v2.1.0 - https://hub.docker.com/r/mintproject/hand
Component Location
- Link: https://github.com/mintproject/HAND-TauDEM/raw/v2.1.4/hand_v2_mint_component.zip
To run this model configuration, a input-dem file (.tif file) is required.
Please enter a url for it: https://github.com/dhardestylewis/HAND-TauDEM/raw/master/regions/Texas/Travis-10m/Travis-DEM-10m-HUC120902050408buf.tif
The information needed to run the model is complete, and I can execute the model as follows:
Invocation command
cd executions/hand_v2_raster_7f784c30-8a33-11ea-b3df-f8f21e3c1558/hand_v2_mint_component/src
/usr/bin/singularity exec docker://mintproject/hand:v2.1.0 ./run  -i1 Travis-DEM-10m-HUC120902050408buf.tif  -o1 distance-down.tif -o3 shape.shp -o4 geojson.json -o2 distance-down-raster.tif  -p1 500
Do you want to proceed and submit it for execution? [Y/n]:
2020-04-29 09:07:21,875 root         INFO     Execution hand_v2_raster running,  check the logs on executions/hand_v2_raster_7f784c30-8a33-11ea-b3df-f8f21e3c1558/output.log
[hand_v2_raster] The execution has been successful
[hand_v2_raster] Results available at: executions/hand_v2_raster_7f784c30-8a33-11ea-b3df-f8f21e3c1558/hand_v2_mint_component/src

[mosoriob]

This is a issue of Singularity + conda.
https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/issues/4301

[dgarijo]

They have closed the issue, not sure if they will work on it. Not sure if we should a) reopen so it tracks attention; b) try extracting conda from the image.

[mosoriob]

We cannot trust in the singularity running on macOS. Let's drop the feature.