podman fedora 31 wsl 2

podman fedora 31 wsl 2

[christianh814]

I was able to get podman to work (rootless and rootful) on Feodra 33 WSL2, following these two articles:

https://fedoramagazine.org/wsl-fedora-33/
https://dev.to/bowmanjd/using-podman-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl-58ji

[thoraxe]

Hi there --

I'm also experiencing this issue. Can you let me know if there's anything I can do to help troubleshoot, @crramirez ?

[crramirez]

Excellent thanks a lot. We will test this approach and make a how-to guide

[gbraad]

Recent versions of Podman, on F33 can run with the following commands:

containers/podman#3288 (comment)

$ sudo -i
$ cp /usr/share/containers/containers.conf /etc/containers/containers.conf && \
 sed -i '/^# cgroup_manager = "systemd"/ a cgroup_manager = "cgroupfs"' /etc/containers/containers.conf && \
 sed -i '/^# events_logger = "journald"/ a events_logger = "file"' /etc/containers/containers.conf
$ dnf reinstall -y shadow-utils

Now podman should work without issues

[jpeeler]

Neat, I'm glad you commented here. I was having some difficulties due to what appears to be a truncated socket path:

$ podman run -it docker.io/library/alpine:latest /bin/sh
Error: failed to connect to container's attach socket: /tmp/jpeeler-runtime/libpod/tmp/socket/8763c0add8b1c2af5cb9bff38d22e6273af08e4149ed1d574ad31ef3319c94f0/att: dial unixpacket /tmp/jpeeler-runtime/libpod/tmp/socket/8763c0add8b1c2af5cb9bff38d22e6273af08e4149ed1d574ad31ef3319c94f0/att: connect: no such file or directory

I believe this is the fix, but it's only present in podman 3, which seems to only be in the testing repo currently. But if anybody else sees the same thing, hopefully an upgrade fixes the issue like it did for me:

sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update podman

[christianh814]

Actually, we should keep this open until it's properly documented.

[returntrip]

I think this can be closed. I can run podman, toolbox, distrobox on fedoraremix37

[returntrip]W5CG2241T4G in [⛵tc4-02-admin@tc4-02]~ as 🧙
❯❯ toolbox enter fedora-toolbox-37
bash: starship: command not found
⬢[returntrip@toolbox ~]$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="37 (Container Image)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=37
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f37"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 37 (Container Image)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f37/system-administrators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=37
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=37
SUPPORT_END=2023-11-14
VARIANT="Container Image"
VARIANT_ID=container
⬢[returntrip@toolbox ~]$ exit
[ble: exit]

[returntrip]W5CG2241T4G in [⛵tc4-02-admin@tc4-02]~ as 🧙 [⏱ 10s]
❯❯ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Fedora Remix for WSL"
VERSION="37"
ID=fedoraremixforwsl
ID_LIKE=fedora
VERSION_ID=37
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f37"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Remix for WSL"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37"
HOME_URL="https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Fedora-Remix-for-WSL"
SUPPORT_URL="https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Fedora-Remix-for-WSL"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Fedora-Remix-for-WSL/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Fedora-Remix-for-WSL/blob/master/PRIVACY.md"
FEDORA_REMIX_VERSION=37.0.2

[crramirez]

OK we will check.

Thank you for reporting

[crramirez]

Hello,

Run this script sudo sed -i 's/^\(NAME=\)\(.*\)$/\1"\2"/' /usr/lib/os-release .

This will fix the os-release problem.

Although as I saw podman is something that works with containers and systemd. This unlikely will work with WSL1. I did some tests with WSL 2 and looks better but still have problems with dbus.

Later this week I can investigate it further to see if we can make it run on WSL.

Regards,
Carlos

[crramirez]

We haven't been able to run it WSL2 still. We'll keep you informed

[jpeeler]

This should be helpful: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-windows-wsl2 (just follow the libpod.conf part)

For toolbox, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set and the directory doesn't exist:

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
mkdir /run/user/1000
chown <user>:<user> /run/user/1000

I modified toolbox (it's a bash script for now) to not execute gdbus. That got me as far as toolbox create trying to execute podman, but failing with a return code of 125. I didn't try to debug this massive command line, but hopefully all this helps you get really close: https://github.com/containers/toolbox/blob/7b460e390d7e5f8a90038c9d0f03a56dc622bd1c/toolbox#L1078.

[gbraad]

@jpeeler I am at the moment not using Podman 3.0; as I am focused on our build on the EL8 platform. So at the moment not much in a hurry to enable this on Fedora. But will certainly enable/update this when the need is there.

[gbraad]

I think this can be closed. Besides F31 is EOL since 2020-11-24 anyway. /cc: @ghost
If issues exist with any newer release filing a new issue would be a better idea.

[gbraad]

In that case please modify the title, as this is not indicative of the intent

[anthr76]

I see dbus is installed but I don't have XDG_* vars. I'm also trying to use toolbox and podman

[crramirez]

Excellent. Thank you for testing and telling us