uid mapping problem with ubuntu-24.04 base image

[MawKKe]

uid mapping problem with ubuntu-24.04 base image

[MawKKe]

It seems the devcontainer images are based on these https://hub.docker.com/_/buildpack-deps/ which themselves are based on the official ubuntu images https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu

Apparently the extra user originates from there:

$ docker run -it --rm ubuntu:22.04 grep 'ubuntu' /etc/passwd || echo nothing
nothing
$ docker run -it --rm ubuntu:24.04 grep 'ubuntu' /etc/passwd || echo nothing
ubuntu:x:1000:1000:Ubuntu:/home/ubuntu:/bin/bash

[samruddhikhandale]

Hi 👋

It seems the devcontainer images are based on these https://hub.docker.com/_/buildpack-deps/ which themselves are based on the official ubuntu images https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu

Yes, that's correct! With the newer release of noble, the official ubuntu image added a new ubuntu user with gid/uid:1000. This started conflicting with with vscode:1000.

Hence, we decided to let vscode's UID/GID update as we didn't want to update (rename/delete/update) the ubuntu user provided by the base image.

This is not the case with focal and jammy, hence the vscode:1000 is intact.

#1036 mentions the same thing in the description!

[MawKKe]

So is the image supposed to work with UID 1001 just as before? For now it is not, not at least for me.

(Of course it is possible that there is something unrelated going on with my setup)

[schlegel11]

I have the exact same problem 😉
I can see that merge #1036 fixes the overall image build issue but not the issue that a mapping to the host system is currently done with a wrong uid or at least wrong for the default user's uid for most of us.