oracle/crashcart

CrashCart: sideload binaries into a running container

crashcart's Issues

build_image.sh fails

I get the following error when running build_image.sh:

configure: error: in `/nix-1.11.6':
configure: error: The Perl module WWW::Curl is missing.
See `config.log' for more details

build_image.sh fail with No space left on device

Attempting to run build_image.sh from the master branch (3e149f8) fails at the last step of building the crashcart-builder container image

Following is the last output of build_image.sh before it fails

 ---> Running in c9c94c333f03
downloading Nix expressions from ‘https://d3g5gsiof5omrk.cloudfront.net/nixos/16.09/nixos-16.09.1943.25f4906da6/nixexprs.tar.xz’...
unpacking channels...
tar: write error: No space left on device
error: cannot close compressed log file (BZip2 error = -6)
cannot unpack the channels at /usr/local/bin/nix-channel line 169.
The command '/bin/sh -c nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.09 &&     nix-channel --update' returned a non-zero code: 1

Note: I have checked whether or not I have space left on my harddrive, and I have plenty

alternative approach

I build this tool, which solves the problem by attaching itself as fuse filesystem.
Both problems have up and downside.
FUSE is slower then a loopback image,
but it turned out to be fast enough for the problem.
On the other hand it is not needed to build a special image
to get in to the context of a container and is pretty
transparent to both the attaching system and the container.

crashcart build hangs

I am trying to build oracle crashcart based on the following README:
https://github.com/oracle/crashcart

I have cloned the github repository and run build.sh first.
Now on running build_image.sh it runs smoothly for an hour and then hangs with the following message:
checking that generated files are newer than configure ...
I am on Ubuntu 16.04 desktop, which has a kernel version 4.4, but not sure if that is the problem at the build stage itself.Any pointers?
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Allow running within Kubernetes

As far as I understand the instructions, there is no way to run this software as side container in Kubernetes (I think that it is truth for other orchestrations, but I am less sure).

Trouble building?

I cloned the project locally, and had issues building:

fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/main: temporary error (try again later)fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.84815163.tar.gz: No such file or directory
ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/community: temporary error (try again later)
WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.24d64ab1.tar.gz: No such file or directory

I did some debugging, trying to hack around the build a bit, but could only get so far:

checking whether DBD::SQLite works... configure: error: in /nix-1.11.6': configure: error: The Perl module WWW::Curl is missing. See config.log' for more details

For some reason I had to make local changes to the Dockerfile to even get that far, even though it looked like it should have worked as-is:

diff --git a/builder/Dockerfile b/builder/Dockerfile
index f76f539..14974ba 100644
--- a/builder/Dockerfile
+++ b/builder/Dockerfile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ RUN echo 'nixbld:x:998:nobody' >> /etc/group &&
e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-extra &&
apk add -U perl-www-curl --update-cache --repository http://dl-3.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/ &&
rm -rf /var/cache/apk/* && \

• curl -O http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-${nversion}/nix-${nversion}.tar.bz2 && \

• curl -O https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.11.6/nix-1.11.6.tar.bz2 &&
  echo "${nsha} nix-${nversion}.tar.bz2" | sha256sum -c &&
  tar -xjf nix-${nversion}.tar.bz2 &&
  sed -i '1i#include <string.h>' nix-${nversion}/src/libutil/affinity.cc && \

I had also hacked out the proxy settings, since I was trying to build this outside the Oracle network.

http://www.mr511.de/software/libelf-0.8.13.tar.gz is offline ...

had to patch several files to change urls (and url fragments) from:

http://www.mr511.de/software/libelf-0.8.13.tar.gz
...to
https://fossies.org/linux/misc/old/libelf-0.8.13.tar.gz
to get this to build recently.

seems like site www.mr511.de is offline for awhile now.

Clarify purpose/use case

If I'm not wrong, this tool is for when you have a container that crashed, but it doesn't have the necessary debugging tools when you want to ssh into it.

I think it would help to have a "Why?" section in the README

Problem building crashcart.img

Hello,

I successfully built crashcart from sources, but I am now struggling getting through the next step (Building crashcart.img). Running build_image.sh produces those errors:

# ./build_image.sh
...
building path(s) ‘/dev/crashcart/store/v9hkl24aahz6gbcv13qqj2zbc1gblgzw-nghttp2-1.20.0.tar.bz2’
downloading ‘https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/download/v1.20.0/nghttp2-1.20.0.tar.bz2’... [0/0 KiB, 0.0 Ki [1716/1761 KiB, 327.3 KiB/s]
building path(s) ‘/dev/crashcart/store/16xp8vj3y3lgw98sswdw8jm5jyzg1iyh-mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz’
downloading ‘http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/download/mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz’... [0/0 KiB, 0.0 KiB/s]
error: unable to download ‘http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/download/mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz’: HTTP response code said error (22)
builder for ‘/dev/crashcart/store/49cfin4ra99d36lcv8vs18rjghq4p6y2-mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz.drv’ failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation ‘/dev/crashcart/store/7k423rmibnmnn8hwggd3wdq94zs8zk6h-libmpc-1.0.3.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
building path(s) ‘/dev/crashcart/store/0dm301gls40kgar61a2fxl6h9pr26h8g-mpfr-3.1.3.tar.bz2’
cannot build derivation ‘/dev/crashcart/store/sqad8lmk4inhvfmpzaqpvb74ms589g56-gcc-6.4.0.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
building path(s) ‘/dev/crashcart/store/5lby4v9jy64p02rgccabx855g0dq4q3v-openssl-1.0.2n.tar.gz’
cannot build derivation ‘/dev/crashcart/store/a244hgf0dd3v7chrsnk3rcc0pzhw5gd9-gcc-wrapper-6.4.0.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation ‘/dev/crashcart/store/s09bk3vymycqzg0lm9xnjq9bb5naaj2i-gcc-wrapper-6.4.0.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation ‘/dev/crashcart/store/q0p7x1c3lzf6j5cgdv2w2qy10rq40rdp-perl-5.24.3.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation ‘/dev/crashcart/store/267a4x9n3zz27kajr8ppcbsj2rjla7cd-stdenv.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation ‘/dev/crashcart/store/m80y3i848d42dzb5gf83kd1jc2c0myzk-stdenv.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation ‘/dev/crashcart/store/3na2cpf6qj6s507dnk0wrxyi8pjdldsf-bash-4.4-p12.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
error: build of ‘/dev/crashcart/store/3na2cpf6qj6s507dnk0wrxyi8pjdldsf-bash-4.4-p12.drv’ failed

Nevertheless, a Docker image is built:

# docker images
REPOSITORY                             TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED              SIZE
crashcart-builder                      latest              2d7bcd31ce5d        About a minute ago   493MB

Trying to run this image manually (by copy-pasting the command from build_image.sh) produces the following errors:

# docker run --privileged --rm -i \
    -e "PACKAGES=${PACKAGES}" \
    -e http_proxy="${http_proxy}" \
    -e https_proxy="${https_proxy}" \
    -e ftp_proxy="${ftp_proxy}" \
    -v "${PWD}"/vol:/dev/crashcart crashcart-builder /dev/crashcart/build_crashcart.sh
...
error: Package ‘Agda-2.5.2’ in /dev/crashcart/store/c9bqkl3z13zwsrganhkmrf1d195d57by-nixos-17.09-17.09.2754.66b4de79e38/nixos-17.09/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix:726 is marked as broken, refusing to evaluate.

a) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
  { nixpkgs.config.allowBroken = true; }
in configuration.nix to override this.

b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
  { allowBroken = true; }
to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.

(use ‘--show-trace’ to show detailed location information)

Any idea what is going wrong/what am I doing wrong?

Note: I am using Linux Mint (Ubuntu-based) in a Virtual Box. I have successfully used this setup before together with Docker.

Thank you,

Brice.