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#45066
guix environment --container is borken
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Reported by: luhux <luhux <at> outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 09:15:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 45069
Done: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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and subject line Re: bug#45066: guix environment --container is borken
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #45066,
regarding BUG: Re: guix environment: error: cannot create container: unprivileged user cannot create user namespaces
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Hi,
I really don't know much about Linux but it looks like the problem I
reported has something to do with Debian?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/303213/how-to-enable-user-namespaces-in-the-kernel-for-unprivileged-unshare
Now, I don't use Debian at all (I use Guix System) and do you think
this is a Bug in Guix (in that this Debian specific word should never
even be mentioned in Guix?)
To summarize this bug again:
The Bug:
The container command no longer works, after the commit
8bc5ca5160db3d82bd5b6b2b7ed80c96f42bd33e.
guix environment -C
Additional Information:
Instead of working as it did until the commit, the command now
dies with the following error mesage:
guix environment: error: cannot create container:
unprivileged user cannot create user namespaces
guix environment: error: please set
/proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone to "1"
The message "please set
/proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone to "1",
seems irrelevant to Guix System users as it may only relate to
Debian users.
I don't know why this Debian specific message is here in the
first place...
Disclaimer :-):
I am assuming this is indeed Debian specific (I tried to
install LinuxLinux (the Guix default) but failed - my AMD graphics card
won't allow me to even boot, unless I use regular Linux. )
I scanned for the phrase in LinuxLibre source code but there
was no mention of it:
~/Downloads$ tar -xf linux-libre-5.9.12-gnu.tar.xz
~/Downloads$ cd linux-5.9.12/
~/Downloads/linux-5.9.12$ rg -i unprivileged_userns_clone
Just FYI: the problem phrase is indeed found in the Debian
Kernel Patch:
~/co/debian$ rg -i unprivileged_userns_clone
linux/debian/patches/debian/add-sysctl-to-disallow-
unprivileged-CLONE_NEWUSER-by-default.patch
25:+extern int unprivileged_userns_clone;
27:+#define unprivileged_userns_clone 0
36:+ if ((clone_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER) &&
!unprivileged_userns_clone)
47:+ if ((unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER) &&
!unprivileged_userns_clone) {
65:+extern int unprivileged_userns_clone;
77:+ .procname = "unprivileged_userns_clone",
78:+ .data = &unprivileged_userns_clone,
96:+int unprivileged_userns_clone;
Cheers,
Yasu
commit 8bc5ca5160db3d82bd5b6b2b7ed80c96f42bd33eAuthor: Paul Garlick <
pgarlick <at> tourbillion-technology.com>Date: Thu Dec 3 16:00:18 2020
+0000
linux-container: Correct test for unprivileged user namespace
support.
Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/31977>;. Reported by Paul Garlick
<pgarlick <at> tourbillion-technology.com>.
* gnu/build/linux-container.scm (unprivileged-user-namespace-
supported?): Return #f when the 'userns-file' does not exist.
diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-container.scm b/gnu/build/linux-
container.scmindex 4a8bed5a9a..3870b50907 100644--- a/gnu/build/linux-
container.scm+++ b/gnu/build/linux-container.scm@@ -44,7 +44,7
@@ (let ((userns-file
"/proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone")) (if (file-exists?
userns-file) (eqv? #\1 (call-with-input-file userns-file read-
char))- #t)))+ #f)))
On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 09:20 +0900, yasu wrote:
> Hi Pj,
> Thank you for you reply (and your wonderful Hacking Guide
> https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/HACKING.org)!
> I tried the command and it didn't work...
> I use Guix System (not a foreign distribution) as described at the
> bottom
> -Yasu
>
> On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 19:55 +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 05:32:08PM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> > > Have you tried to do the recommandation?
> > >
> > > please set /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone to "1"
> >
> > As root:
> >
> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
> >
> > Yes, it is common on Debian and such.
> >
> > Pj.
>
> root <at> guix ~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone-
> bash: /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone: No such file or
> directory
> root <at> guix ~# guix system describeGeneration 5631 Dec 05 2020
> 09:09:16 (current) file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-5631-
> link canonical file name:
> /gnu/store/qqzk4kvrhxjcia3hcq3xqrcdi36azzz9-system label: GNU with
> Linux 5.9.12 bootloader: grub-efi root device: label: "my-root"
> kernel: /gnu/store/9a93vpq4aa1c3adiaaa3blwc18r9r7zz-linux-
> 5.9.12/bzImage channels: guix: repository URL:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch:
> master commit:
> 86d635b85035086d21c319f31f628761df5c82e5 nonguix: repository
> URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix branch:
> master commit: b08ea529d4d36468b20ef4aff6dc87b3de0eff70 guix-
> chromium: repository URL:
> https://gitlab.com/mbakke/guix-chromium.git branch:
> master commit: 2de450b92e5f2624d4f964407686934e22239f7b
> configuration file: /gnu/store/hlma107m2004g6qq00ihm190am5mh9z0-
> configuration.scm
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zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skriver:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 at 16:59, luhux <luhux <at> outlook.com> wrote:
>> In the new guix `guix environment --container` is borken.
>
> It is not broken.
It was broken. :-)
> Have you tried the recommendation?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ su -
> Password:
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
> # logout
>
> $ guix environment -C --ad-hoc hello -- hello
> Hello, world!
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
...because this only works on the Debian kernel.
We need to find a more robust test for user namespaces, but for now I
reverted the commit.
Closing! Thanks for the report luhux. :-)
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