Description of problem: Altough podman container checkpoint/restore can be ran successfully, but it's failed to manually uncompress dumped file generated by podman container checkpoint, and got error lile this "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format XXX", it's okay to podman v4.0 on RHEL 9. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 Beta (Ootpa) [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# rpm -q podman runc crun criu systemd kernel podman-4.0.2-1.module+el8.6.0+14379+4ec2a99a.x86_64 runc-1.0.3-2.module+el8.6.0+14379+4ec2a99a.x86_64 crun-1.4.2-1.module+el8.6.0+14379+4ec2a99a.x86_64 criu-3.15-3.module+el8.6.0+14379+4ec2a99a.x86_64 systemd-239-58.el8.x86_64 kernel-4.18.0-369.el8.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. podman run -it --name foobar quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest sleep 1000 2. podman container checkpoint foobar -e /tmp/foobar.tar.gz 3. tar xvf /tmp/foobar.tar.gz or tar zxvf /tmp/foobar.tar.gz Actual results: [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman run -it --name foobar quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest sleep 1000 open a new terminal window [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 4282ccd8a7de quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest sleep 1000 11 seconds ago Up 11 seconds ago foobar [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman exec foobar ps|grep sleep 1 root 0:00 sleep 1000 [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman --runtime=runc container checkpoint foobar -e /tmp/foobar.tar.gz 4282ccd8a7deeaef0b8afeab7b071d219144cd451cee4d76c60bebc74bf8c48d [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 4282ccd8a7de quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest sleep 1000 About a minute ago Exited (0) 7 seconds ago foobar [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman container restore --latest 4282ccd8a7deeaef0b8afeab7b071d219144cd451cee4d76c60bebc74bf8c48d [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 4282ccd8a7de quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest sleep 1000 About a minute ago Up About a minute ago foobar [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman exec foobar ps|grep sleep 1 root 0:00 sleep 1000 [root@sweetpig-21 ~]# tar zxvf /tmp/foobar.tar.gz gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Expected results: fix it. Additional info: it works well for podman-4.0.1-1.el9.x86_64 w/ crun and runc runtime on 9.0. [root@kvm-07-guest10 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.0 Beta (Plow) [root@kvm-07-guest10 podman]# rpm -q podman crun runc criu systemd kernel podman-4.0.1-1.el9.x86_64 crun-1.4.2-1.el9.x86_64 runc-1.1.0-2.el9.x86_64 criu-3.15-13.el9.x86_64 systemd-250-3.el9.x86_64 kernel-5.14.0-69.el9.x86_64 [root@kvm-07-guest10 ~]# criu check --all Looks good. ...ignore... [root@kvm-07-guest10 dumpfile]# file checkpoint-7ea942556e5222fd7e1fe93fce9121c7dc730d0159be6e5346c595e558d86bbe.tar.gz checkpoint-7ea942556e5222fd7e1fe93fce9121c7dc730d0159be6e5346c595e558d86bbe.tar.gz: Zstandard compressed data (v0.8+), Dictionary ID: None [root@kvm-07-guest10 dumpfile]# tar xvf checkpoint-7ea942556e5222fd7e1fe93fce9121c7dc730d0159be6e5346c595e558d86bbe.tar.gz artifacts/ devshm-checkpoint.tar config.dump spec.dump network.status stats-dump checkpoint/ checkpoint/cgroup.img checkpoint/core-1.img checkpoint/descriptors.json checkpoint/fdinfo-2.img checkpoint/files.img checkpoint/fs-1.img checkpoint/ids-1.img checkpoint/inventory.img checkpoint/ipcns-var-11.img checkpoint/mm-1.img checkpoint/mountpoints-13.img checkpoint/netns-10.img checkpoint/pagemap-1.img checkpoint/pages-1.img checkpoint/pstree.img checkpoint/seccomp.img checkpoint/timens-0.img checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-56.tar.gz.img checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-59.tar.gz.img checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-60.tar.gz.img checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-61.tar.gz.img checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-62.tar.gz.img checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-63.tar.gz.img checkpoint/tty-info.img checkpoint/utsns-12.img
@umohnani could you take a peek at this please?
Yup, working on it.
@umohnani is this still a WIP and/or can you add a PR link here please?