pthread_create failed (EPERM) when launching docker container on eclipse-temurin:17.0.3_7

[cotjoey]

What are you trying to do?

Build a Docker image from "eclipse-temurin:17", and then run its java in a container.

Expected behaviour:

When the Docker container is started, I should be able to run java and all it's arguments.

Observed behaviour:

When the Docker container starts, the first java command errors out with the following message:

[0.003s][warning][os,thread] Failed to start thread - pthread_create failed (EPERM) for attributes: stacksize: 1024k, guardsize: 4k, detached.
#
# There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
# Cannot create worker GC thread. Out of system resources.
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# //hs_err_pid9.log

Any other comments:

I was able to test with both eclipse-temurin:17.0.3_7-jre and eclipse-temurin:17.0.2_8-jre and only version 17.0.2_8-jre gives me the error.

Output of testing:

--> version 17.0.3_7-jre - fails

$ sudo docker run -it eclipse-temurin:17.0.3_7-jre /bin/bash
root@1cf1e9b60376:/# java -version
[0.003s][warning][os,thread] Failed to start thread - pthread_create failed (EPERM) for attributes: stacksize: 1024k, guardsize: 4k, detached.
#
# There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
# Cannot create worker GC thread. Out of system resources.
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# //hs_err_pid9.log

--> version 17.0.2_8 - succeeds

$ sudo docker run -it eclipse-temurin:17.0.2_8-jre /bin/bash
root@81263cb3f400:/# java -version
openjdk version "17.0.2" 2022-01-18
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-17.0.2+8 (build 17.0.2+8)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-17.0.2+8 (build 17.0.2+8, mixed mode, sharing)

[jerboaa]

Please upgrade your docker. See: adoptium/containers#215 (comment)

[holgerstolzenberg]

Same for us in another context but the key info here is that we switched our Temurin based JDK eclipse-temurin:17.0.3_7-jre to a focal based image eclipse-temurin:17.0.3_7-jre-focal.

Side note: The Docker upgrade did not work for us, it had no effect.

[Lonzak]

@holgerstolzenberg

Side note: The Docker upgrade did not work for us, it had no effect.

So how did you solve it?

[holgerstolzenberg]

As stated in the comment switching from 17.0.3_7-jre to 17.0.3_7-jre-focal for the image worked for us (this is meant by focal based).

[Lonzak]

What does "focal" mean? We use a debian-slim base image and install java afterwards. The "focal" stuff seem to be an extra docker image based on ubuntu:

Tags: 11.0.22_7-jdk-focal, 11-jdk-focal, 11-focal
Architectures: amd64, arm32v7, arm64v8, ppc64le, s390x
GitCommit: 2dae22b74703ce78b2951bc458945fdfde5b8f50
Directory: 11/jdk/ubuntu/focal

Mhm hope that the docker-engine upgrade works...

[holgerstolzenberg]

Yes we moved to Ubuntu Focal based image. I guess it packages different docker version or containerd version.
Focal is a codename for a certain ubuntu major version.