Daniel Hiller

containerd broken - how to workaround on Fedora 39

2023-11-29

docker containerd fedora f39 

containerd-1.6.23-1 is broken on Fedora 39. This causes running containers with docker to fail. I normally use podman but for some tasks I rely on docker. I.e. when testing prow jobs locally, I use phaino, which seems to use containerd under the hood.

The issue itself is tracked in GitHub CoreOS tracker and Bugzilla. From there you quickly get to the workaround, which is downgrading containerd to containerd-1.6.19-1.fc39.

Here’s how to do it:

• Download rpm for your architecture
• Do dnf localinstall of the rpm
• Do a versionlock on the rpm
• remind yourself to remove the version lock after the fix got in

# install dnf versionlock plugin
dnf install 'dnf-command(versionlock)'
# get the rpm
cd /tmp
wget https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/containerd/1.6.19/1.fc39/x86_64/containerd-1.6.19-1.fc39.x86_64.rpm
# install it
dnf localinstall containerd-1.6.19-1.fc39.x86_64.rpm
# lock the version
dnf versionlock containerd
# restart docker daemon
systemctl restart docker

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