Known issues with .NET Core and a workaround

[ghuntley]

Overview

.NET compilation on Gitpod.io (not self-hosted) currently fails with the following error:

/home/gitpod/dotnet/sdk/5.0.205/Roslyn/Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets(71,5): 
error MSB6004: The specified task executable location "/run/containerd/io.containerd.runtime.v2.task/k8s.io/9893fadb493f1802ef41dc3e7138768879832b73c9ee3e60759ad3c544a9d6ab/rootfs/home/gitpod/dotnet/dotnet"
is invalid. [/workspace/template-dotnet-core-cli-csharp/dotnetcore.csproj]

As an old-school .NET developer I understand your pain and apologize. Google GKE released a Linux kernel update that broke /proc/pid/maps with .NET. Our engineers are working towards a path of moving off GKE so that this never happens again (Gitpod will have full control of our infrastructure down to the kernel level) which will resolve and also enable many new/exciting shiny features.

Workaround

Thanks to @woehrl01 there is a workaround at gitpod-samples/template-dotnet-core-cli-csharp@9d01b88

Discussion and Root Cause Issue

Please continue the discussion at the root cause issue at #5090.

[JanKoehnlein]

/team workspace

[aledbf]

Closing. We are now 100% out of GKE. So this is not an issue anymore.
No workaround is needed.