From 166149b12dfb855393b434a02c2ecf034b97f8ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Berkus Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:25:34 -0700 Subject: Add troubleshooting advice about the --userns option. Also a link to the troubleshooting guide into the issue template. Replaces: https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/9770 Signed-off-by: Josh Berkus Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh --- .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md | 3 ++- troubleshooting.md | 10 +++++++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md index 1a7153848..b8ba48819 100644 --- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md +++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ Briefly describe the problem you are having in a few paragraphs. (paste your output here) ``` -**Have you tested with the latest version of Podman and have you checked the Podman Troubleshooting Guide?** +**Have you tested with the latest version of Podman and have you checked the Podman Troubleshooting Guide? (https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/master/troubleshooting.md)** + Yes/No diff --git a/troubleshooting.md b/troubleshooting.md index 077e342cd..93ff56c3e 100644 --- a/troubleshooting.md +++ b/troubleshooting.md @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ touch: cannot touch '/content/file': Permission denied #### Solution -This is usually caused by SELinux. +This is sometimes caused by SELinux, and sometimes by user namespaces. Labeling systems like SELinux require that proper labels are placed on volume content mounted into a container. Without a label, the security system might @@ -47,6 +47,14 @@ will disable SELinux separation for the container. $ podman run --security-opt label=disable -v ~:/home/user fedora touch /home/user/file +In cases where the container image runs as a specific, non-root user, though, the +solution is to fix the user namespace. This would include container images such as +the Jupyter Notebook image (which runs as "jovyan") and the Postgres image (which runs +as "postgres"). In either case, use the `--userns` switch to map user namespaces, +most of the time by using keep_id option. + +$ podman run -v "$PWD":/home/jovyan/work --userns=keep_id jupyter/scipy-notebook + --- ### 3) No such image or Bare keys cannot contain ':' -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf