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ender4

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Registered: 2011-01-11

Posts: 16

Unable to pull with non-root podman.

If I try running something like

$ podman pull docker.io/alpine

then I get an error like

Error processing tar file(exit status 1): there might not be enough IDs available in the namespace (requested 0:42 for /etc/shadow): lchown /etc/shadow: invalid argumen

Even though I have a range of 165536:65536 in both /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid, and 65536 is clearly larger than the required 42 users. I found this error described in a redhat article however increasing the size of the range doesn't help.

Running as root works fine.

ender4

Member

Registered: 2011-01-11

Posts: 16

Re: Unable to pull with non-root podman.

After rebooting, I was able pull with podman. So, maybe making changes to /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid require a reboot (or maybe just logging out and back in)?