openSUSE Podman - unable to pull image
Today, while pulling the latest Nextcloud container image from the docker.io repository I noticed that it is failing. Looking at the read: connection reset by peer error I assume it could be primarily due to network failure; maybe poor quality of the connection
Today, while pulling the latest Nextcloud container image from the docker.io repository I noticed that it is failing. Looking at the read: connection reset by peer error I assume it could be primarily due to network failure; maybe poor quality of the connection.
Note that Mauritius is far from "everywhere" else and connectivity issues are nothing new.
ish@coffee-bar:~> podman pull docker.io/library/nextcloud
Trying to pull docker.io/library/nextcloud...
Getting image source signatures
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Copying blob 0c78caf16ec3 [======================================] 13.1MiB / 13.2MiB
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read tcp 192.168.100.6:33536->104.18.124.25:443: read: connection reset by peer
Error: error pulling image "docker.io/library/nextcloud": unable to pull docker.io/library/nextcloud: unable to pull image: Error writing blob: error storing blob to file "/var/tmp/storage720474498/10": read tcp 192.168.100.6:33536->104.18.124.25:443: read: connection reset by peer
Podman does not retry to copy the image in case of failures.
A few days ago there was a suggestion to implement a similar feature in Podman that is present in Buildah, which provides the "image copy retry" functionality.
For the curious, the implementation of retryCopyImage in Buildah can be seen here.
Container images that are pulled by Buildah are stored in the local repository which can also by accessed by Podman, so that's an advantage. I tried pulling the Nextcloud container image using Buildah and it completed successfully.
ish@coffee-bar:~> buildah pull nextcloud
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob e0d3d1244592 done
Copying blob 8559a31e96f4 done
Copying blob eb2d00c10344 done
Copying blob 3a60f364b0c5 done
Copying blob f54006e0dc29 done
Copying blob e0276193a084 done
Copying blob f65316e96b10 done
Copying blob b22875b95a2a done
Copying blob 3e309988c00b done
Copying blob 0c78caf16ec3 done
Copying blob 4fc30aae7ee5 done
Copying blob 37b016cacdc6 done
Copying blob e3cd35f544b5 done
Copying blob fd56bf3cc539 done
Copying blob 467fea8f6f80 done
Copying blob 0dc7444f9282 done
Copying blob 547ae6684264 done
Copying blob 2b37e3b3a856 done
Copying blob 00e77223b529 done
Copying blob 3139b6de5be7 done
Copying config 327476ebe3 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
327476ebe3280c7b570d8463edd136956eab120959976b643cb7dbfaa73f98c1Now, the downloaded container image is also accessible by Podman.
ish@coffee-bar:~> podman images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
docker.io/libreoffice/online latest 0586fecfa3c1 28 hours ago 2.84 GB
docker.io/library/nextcloud latest 327476ebe328 3 days ago 774 MBTo conclude, while we are waiting that a retryCopyImage function is available in Podman, we can use Buildah to pull container images that are troublesome due to network issues.