"Cannot start container " when trying to reverse engineer Dockerfile

[leowmjw]

The reverse engineering of Dockerfile from Docker image seems to fail inconsistently. The test case used is "dockerfile-from-image" itself. Seems to be somehow related to failure in unmounting image.

Details below .. Any clues?

ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-168:~$ docker --version Docker version 1.4.1, build 5bc2ff8

ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-168:~$ sudo docker images
REPOSITORY                          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             VIRTUAL SIZE
centurylink/dockerfile-from-image   latest              00c8dfdef4c3        5 months ago        340.2 MB
...
...

ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-168:~$ sudo docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock   centurylink/dockerfile-from-image centurylink/dockerfile-from-image
FATA[0000] Error response from daemon: Cannot start container babcf5872ed314d119f5bd12036d0793960ba83a1faa3ea36f8487e265ae8eec: mkdir /sys/fs/cpuset: no such file or directory 

ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-168:~$ sudo docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock   centurylink/dockerfile-from-image centurylink/dockerfile-from-imageFATA[0000] Error response from daemon: Cannot start container c6e0aebf3a986215b5199d3b5cba52ac8978671f6873b60f00289abec8d9e7bf: mkdir /sys/fs/cpu: no such file or directory 

Thanks!

[bdehamer]

@leowmjw based on the mkdir /sys/fs/cpu: no such file or directory error message, I'm guessing it might be an issue with your Docker installation.

I ran this a bunch of times just now against various images (including the "dockerfile-from-image" image itself) and was unable to make it fail:

$ docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock centurylink/dockerfile-from-image centurylink/dockerfile-from-image
FROM scratch:latest
ADD file:51f55dad71612120f31d0adf486db5717ed0ff07e3f1f62bd5922ba6a9d6ec07 in /
CMD [/bin/bash]
MAINTAINER CenturyLink Labs <clt-labs-futuretech@centurylink.com>
RUN apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y build-essential libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev libyaml-dev libgdbm-dev wget
RUN wget -nv http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz && tar xfz ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz && cd ruby-2.1.2 && ./configure --disable-install-doc && make && make install && cd .. && rm -r ruby-2.1.2 ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz
RUN echo 'gem: --no-document' >> /.gemrc
RUN wget -nv http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-2.3.0.tgz && tar xfz rubygems-2.3.0.tgz && cd rubygems-2.3.0 && ruby setup.rb && cd .. && rm -r rubygems-2.3.0 rubygems-2.3.0.tgz
RUN gem install --no-document bundler
RUN gem install docker-api
ADD file:e562309325c1c148058e5e0dd495b7dcbf449e18aca856571e8aa1ef9b0b9f99 in /usr/src/app/dockerfile-from-image.rb
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
RUN chmod +x dockerfile-from-image.rb
CMD [--help]
ENTRYPOINT [/usr/src/app/dockerfile-from-image.rb]

[ozbillwang]

looks good for me. I got the right Dockerfile.

core@core-01 ~/dockerfile-from-image $ docker pull centurylink/dockerfile-from-image
core@core-01 ~/dockerfile-from-image $ docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock centurylink/dockerfile-from-image centurylink/dockerfile-from-image
FROM alpine:3.1
MAINTAINER CenturyLink Labs <clt-labs-futuretech@centurylink.com>
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/src/app/dockerfile-from-image.rb"]
CMD ["--help"]
RUN apk update && apk add ruby-dev ca-certificates
RUN gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri docker-api
ADD file:ca2f6672120c2fb4595ac2b160d8325066cb2b40f64405171b15bff98be02f88 in /usr/src/app/dockerfile-from-image.rb

This is really cool, set an alias on it to make it as a simple command.

The -f option is so useful, I am looking for a similar function and get it here.

core@core-01 ~/dockerfile-from-image $ alias dimages="docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -rm dockerfile-from-image"
core@core-01 ~/dockerfile-from-image $ dimages -h
Usage: dockerfile-from-image.rb [options] <image_id>
    -f, --full-tree                  Generate Dockerfile for all parent layers
    -h, --help                       Show this message
core@core-01 ~/dockerfile-from-image $ dimages ruby
core@core-01 ~/dockerfile-from-image $ dimages -f ruby

[bdehamer]

Closing this issue. Feel free to log another issue if you continue have problems.