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Bug 1657303 - RHEL 7.6.1 varlink is missing in podman and therefore podman systemd service doesn't start
Summary: RHEL 7.6.1 varlink is missing in podman and therefore podman systemd service ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: podman
Version: 7.6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Frantisek Kluknavsky
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
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Blocks: 1186913 1636853
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Reported: 2018-12-07 16:01 UTC by Christian Stark
Modified: 2020-09-21 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-01-31 19:21:18 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:0241 0 None None None 2019-01-31 19:21:30 UTC

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


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