Cannot build app: too many open files

[Andrei-Stepanov]

buildah cannot build app, it fails with "too many open files"

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Without additional arguments buildah bud finish in: too many open files error

or

2. buildah bud --ulimit nofile=90000:90000 --build-arg .
   finish in:

✗ buildah bud --ulimit nofile=90000:90000 --build-arg  .
STEP 1: FROM centos/nodejs-10-centos7 AS builder
STEP 2: WORKDIR /opt/app-root
STEP 3: COPY package* ./
STEP 4: COPY src/ src/
STEP 5: RUN ["bash","-c", "--", "npm install"]
WARN[0000] signal: killed                               
ERRO[0000] container_linux.go:346: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:449: container init caused \"process_linux.go:378: setting rlimits for ready process caused \\\"error setting rlimit type 7: operation not permitted\\\"\"" 
container_linux.go:346: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:449: container init caused \"process_linux.go:378: setting rlimits for ready process caused \\\"error setting rlimit type 7: operation not permitted\\\"\""
error running container: error creating container for [/usr/bin/bash -c -- npm install]: : exit status 1
error building at STEP "RUN bash -c -- npm install": error while running runtime: exit status 1
ERRO exit status 1                                

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Describe the results you expected:

Output of rpm -q buildah or apt list buildah:

rpm -q buildah
buildah-1.11.6-4.module_el8.1.0+272+3e64ee36.x86_64

Output of buildah version:

 buildah version
Version:         1.11.6
Go Version:      go1.12.12
Image Spec:      1.0.1-dev
Runtime Spec:    1.0.1-dev
CNI Spec:        0.4.0
libcni Version:  
image Version:   5.0.0
Git Commit:      
Built:           Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
OS/Arch:         linux/amd64

Output of podman version if reporting a podman build issue:

podman version
Version:            1.6.4
RemoteAPI Version:  1
Go Version:         go1.12.12
OS/Arch:            linux/amd64

Output of cat /etc/*release:

cat /etc/*release
CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core) 
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="8 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 8 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:8"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"

CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-8"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8"

CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core) 
CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core) 

Output of uname -a:

Linux localhost.localdomain 4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 5 02:00:39 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Could be related to containers/podman#5526

[sab24]

you can build using buildah bud --ulimit nofile=4096:4096 .