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Troubleshooting

A list of common issues and solutions for Buildah

1) No such image

When doing a buildah pull or buildah bud command and a "common" image can not be pulled, it is likely that the /etc/containers/registries.conf file is either not installed or possibly misconfigured.

Symptom

$ sudo buildah bud -f Dockerfile .
STEP 1: FROM alpine
error creating build container: 2 errors occurred:

* Error determining manifest MIME type for docker://localhost/alpine:latest: pinging docker registry returned: Get https://localhost/v2/: dial tcp [::1]:443: connect: connection refused
* Error determining manifest MIME type for docker://registry.access.redhat.com/alpine:latest: Error reading manifest latest in registry.access.redhat.com/alpine: unknown: Not Found
error building: error creating build container: no such image "alpine" in registry: image not known

Solution

  • Verify that the /etc/containers/registries.conf file exists. If not, verify that the containers-common package is installed.
  • Verify that the entries in the [registries.search] section of the /etc/containers/registries file are valid and reachable.
  • Verify that the image you requested is either fully qualified, or that it exists on one of your search registries.
  • Verify that the image is public or that you have logged in to at least one search registry which contains the private image.

2) http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client

When doing a Buildah command such as bud, commit, from, or push to a registry, tls verification is turned on by default. If authentication is not used with those commands, this error can occur.

Symptom

# buildah push alpine docker://localhost:5000/myalpine:latest
Getting image source signatures
Get https://localhost:5000/v2/: http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client

Solution

By default tls verification is turned on when communicating to registries from Buildah. If the registry does not require authentication the Buildah commands such as bud, commit, from and pull will fail unless tls verification is turned off using the --tls-verify option. NOTE: It is not at all recommended to communicate with a registry and not use tls verification.

  • Turn off tls verification by passing false to the tls-verification option.
  • I.e. buildah push --tls-verify=false alpine docker://localhost:5000/myalpine:latest

3) buildah run command fails with pipe or output redirection

When doing a buildah run command while using a pipe ('|') or output redirection ('>>'), the command will fail, often times with a command not found type of error.

Symptom

When executing a buildah run command with a pipe or output redirection such as the following commands:

# buildah run $whalecontainer /usr/games/fortune -a | cowsay
# buildah run $newcontainer echo "daemon off;" >> /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
# buildah run $newcontainer echo "nginx on Fedora" > /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html

the buildah run command will not complete and an error will be raised.

Solution

There are two solutions to this problem. The podman run command can be used in place of buildah run. To still use buildah run, surround the command with single quotes and use bash -c. The previous examples would be changed to:

# buildah run bash -c '$whalecontainer /usr/games/fortune -a | cowsay'
# buildah run bash -c '$newcontainer echo "daemon off;" >> /etc/nginx/nginx.conf'
# buildah run bash -c '$newcontainer echo "nginx on Fedora" > /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html'

4) buildah push alpine oci:~/myalpine:latest fails with lstat error

When doing a buildah push command and the target image has a tilde (~) character in it, an lstat error will be raised stating there is no such file or directory. This is expected behavior for shell expansion of the tilde character as it is only expanded at the start of a word. This behavior is documented here.

Symptom

$ sudo pull alpine
$ sudo buildah push alpine oci:~/myalpine:latest
lstat /home/myusername/~: no such file or directory

Solution

  • Replace ~ with $HOME or the fully specified directory /home/myusername.
    • $ sudo buildah push alpine oci:${HOME}/myalpine:latest