Pipeline Build is failing with error: "fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
    • 4.x

Issue

  • Pipeline Build is failing with error:

    level=error msg="Unmounting /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/dd475f17b24f12407e95e160db4197929d22b30f084f4a5ccd2b0311f5639481/merged: invalid argument"
Error: mounting new container: mounting build container "010fd4ecf590024317331d51686be2ab7759975b68c9f838bad8c1da562fc415": creating overlay mount to /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/dd475f17b24f12407e95e160db4197929d22b30f084f4a5ccd2b0311f5639481/merged, mount_data="lowerdir=/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/l/UJNU5M6MAO3CQWGCNXDEKNVHAW:/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/l/ZFTHYYEX6T3MAFL6FT3Y6NDPEX:/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/l/OPDUEGZVSDA7LNSPKRYCMWQYNK:/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/l/2FAV43GYF7FDHVZAG6DUQ54OSF:/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/l/ZSWRTCDMIEDSDNCWUR65HJCDOO:/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/l/MM3WNDGFUJDMZ6ICNGKBDIL2CC,upperdir=/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/dd475f17b24f12407e95e160db4197929d22b30f084f4a5ccd2b0311f5639481/diff,workdir=/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/dd475f17b24f12407e95e160db4197929d22b30f084f4a5ccd2b0311f5639481/work,nodev,volatile": using mount program /usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs: unknown argument ignored: lazytime
fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first
fuse-overlayfs: cannot mount: No such file or directory
: exit status 1
level=debug msg="Shutting down engines"
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure

Resolution

Set Container to run with privileged: true under the securityContext:

    securityContext:
      privileged: true

Root Cause

  • The Container required multiple permissions/capabilities to run on host which was failing with un-privileged access.

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