Package: singularity-container
Version: 3.5.2+ds1-1
Severity: important
I have a Singularity recipe file that has been working for months when
Debian GNU/Linux is installed directly on bare metal. Today, I tried
to use it on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (from Windows 10 Pro for
Workstations Insider Preview, Build 19536), where it unexpectedly
fails. It is unknown to me whether the problem is or is not due to a
limitation of WSL2.
Setup required in order to be able to reproduce:
Install Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 on a Windows system that
supports it. Install the Debian GNU/Linux app from the Microsoft
store. Invoke "debian", edit /etc/apt/sources.list to migrate from
buster to bullseye, perform the update/upgrade/dist-upgrade, install
singularity-container (which unfortunately is not in buster-backports
as I write this).
Then, create a simple recipe named foobar.recipe, containing:
Bootstrap: scratch
%setup
debootstrap --arch=amd64
--include=build-essential,ca-certificates,dialog,diffuse,keyboard-configuration,less,nano,sudo,wget
--variant=minbase --verbose buster $SINGULARITY_ROOTFS
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
Once the above is done, here is the reproduction procedure:
1. Launch an Adminstrator Powershell
2. Invoke "debian".
3. Invoke "sudo singularity build output.simg foobar.recipe"
Output observed:
INFO: Starting build...
FATAL: container creation failed: failed to mount directory filesystem
/tmp/rootfs-ecb3e633-2faf-11ea-ab65-f8b46abb25dc: no such file or directory
FATAL: while performing build: while running engine: while running
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/singularity/bin/starter: exit status 255
Expected output:
I expect Singularity to build a close-to-minimal Debian Buster image.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-19536-Microsoft
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages singularity-container depends on:
ii ca-certificates 20190110
ii containernetworking-plugins 0.8.3-2
ii libc6 2.29-7
ii libseccomp2 2.4.2-2
ii squashfs-tools 1:4.4-1
Versions of packages singularity-container recommends:
ii e2fsprogs 1.45.4-1
singularity-container suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
