Bug 1657303

Summary: RHEL 7.6.1 varlink is missing in podman and therefore podman systemd service doesn't start
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Christian Stark <cstark>
Component: podmanAssignee: Frantisek Kluknavsky <fkluknav>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 7.6CC: dornelas, dwalsh, fkluknav, jligon, lsm5, mheon, umohnani, ypu
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Description Christian Stark 2018-12-07 16:01:11 UTC 
Description of problem:

varlink is missing in podman anf therefore podman systemd service doesn't start

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

7.6.1

How reproducible:

yum install podman

grep -i link /usr/lib/systemd/system/io.podman.service
Documentation=man:podman-varlink(1)
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman varlink unix:/run/podman/io.podman

# /usr/bin/podman varlink unix:/run/podman/io.podman
Command "varlink" not found.
See `podman --help`.




Expected results:

podman varlink works

Additional info:

cause should be missing 
libvarlink-util
Comment 2 Brent Baude 2018-12-07 16:12:48 UTC 
can you report podman info?
Comment 3 Brent Baude 2018-12-07 16:19:23 UTC 
The varlink API is not build into the RHEL7 podman versions because of a lack of python3 and the varlink packages themselves.  The error message you see is actually coming from podman and indicating that the varlink subcommand does not exist.

[cloud-user@baude ~]$ sudo podman varlink
Command "varlink" not found.
See `podman --help`.


Because there is no varlink support, the following files should be removed from the RHEL7 package.

[cloud-user@baude ~]$ rpm -ql podman | grep systemd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/io.podman.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/io.podman.socket
Comment 5 Brent Baude 2018-12-07 16:38:11 UTC 
@Frantisek, I'm going to re-assign this bug to you because the solution is to remove those systemd files from the package itself on RHEL7
Comment 9 Joy Pu 2019-01-17 08:42:11 UTC 
Check with podman-0.12.1.2-2.git9551f6b.el7.x86_64 and the related files are all removed. So set this to verified.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2019-01-31 19:21:18 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0241