Exception - read timeout

[rtarquini]

Seeing this error while squashing a 40GB image

2022-10-20 11:25:37,527 root INFO docker-squash version 1.0.9, Docker a89b842, API 1.41... 2022-10-20 11:25:37,528 root INFO Using v2 image format 2022-10-20 11:25:37,632 root INFO Old image has 136 layers 2022-10-20 11:25:37,633 root INFO Checking if squashing is necessary... 2022-10-20 11:25:37,633 root INFO Attempting to squash last 136 layers... 2022-10-20 11:25:37,633 root INFO Saving image sha256:8aeb56db8daa4f840096ef3ce5bf2243d65089081b58630165edb519b6a6a438 to /tmp/docker-squash-3fsgijce/old directory... 2022-10-20 11:35:37,735 root ERROR UnixHTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=None): Read timed out. (read timeout=600) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 445, in _make_request six.raise_from(e, None) File "", line 3, in raise_from File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 440, in _make_request httplib_response = conn.getresponse() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 1349, in getresponse response.begin() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 316, in begin version, status, reason = self._read_status() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 277, in _read_status line = str(self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1), "iso-8859-1") File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/socket.py", line 704, in readinto return self._sock.recv_into(b) socket.timeout: timed out

[curea]

I had this same issue and fixed it by setting an environment variable DOCKER_TIMEOUT to 999999

[rnc]

This is covered in https://github.com/goldmann/docker-squash/blob/main/docs/environment_variables.adoc although perhaps that should be cross-linked in the top level README (cc @goldmann ) ?