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Bug 2140532

Summary: [RFE] : Recognise podman version mismatch and display user understandable message
Product: [Red Hat Storage] Red Hat Ceph Storage Reporter: Vasishta <vashastr>
Component: CephadmAssignee: Adam King <adking>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Manasa <mgowri>
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Version: 5.3CC: cephqe-warriors, mobisht, saraut
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Description Vasishta 2022-11-07 05:03:28 UTC
Description of problem:
Using cephadm with older podman versions dumps runtime error which can be tuned to make it more user understandable.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cephadm-16.2.10-69.el8cp.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install cephadm with older version of podman and try cephadm commands.

Actual results:
# cephadm version
Non-zero exit code 125 from /usr/bin/podman version --format {{.Client.Version}}
/usr/bin/podman: stderr Error: template: image:1:9: executing "image" at <.Client.Version>: can't evaluate field Client in type define.Version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/cephadm", line 9183, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/cephadm", line 9169, in main
    check_container_engine(ctx)
  File "/usr/sbin/cephadm", line 2204, in check_container_engine
    engine.get_version(ctx)
  File "/usr/sbin/cephadm", line 212, in get_version
    out, _, _ = call_throws(ctx, [self.path, 'version', '--format', '{{.Client.Version}}'])
  File "/usr/sbin/cephadm", line 1637, in call_throws
    raise RuntimeError(f'Failed command: {" ".join(command)}: {s}')
RuntimeError: Failed command: /usr/bin/podman version --format {{.Client.Version}}: Error: template: image:1:9: executing "image" at <.Client.Version>: can't evaluate field Client in type define.Version

Expected results:
Recognize that podman could be of older version and convey user based on findings.

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Comment 5 Abhishek Kane 2025-06-10 04:15:18 UTC
Moving all the RFEs out of 9.0 as they were not prioritized by PMs, and engineering team doesn't have bandwidth to take them up.

Comment 6 Sahina Bose 2025-08-29 07:40:40 UTC
Closing this bug as part of bulk closing of bugs that have been open for more than a year without any significant updates. Please reopen with justification if you think this bug is still relevant and needs to be addressed in an upcoming release