Anybody having problems with IBM Containers on US South in Bluemix?
Containers report Data currently available on the dashboard and if I try to list or start a container I get this error:
Catalog Error
×
BXNUI0513E: The attempt to retrieve containers failed because a problem occurred
contacting IBM Containers. Try again later. If the problem continues, go to
Support. For other help options, see the Bluemix Docs.
If I switch to the UK site, I can create and use containers.
I've just recently tried out a Docker container with a sshd and it was running fine for 5-6 hours. However, then it seemed like part of the Container service in Bluemix broke and I've not been able to access it for the past 24 hours.
Regards.
Mikael
For trial accounts you can create containers only in one space and this error sometimes occurs when the user tries to create a container in another region. Unfortunately since you're using 'pay as you go' in this in case you have to open a support request using one of the following methods in order to engage IBM Containers team to investigate your issue:
Use the Support Widget. It is available from the user avatar in the
upper right corner of the main Bluemix UI. After opening the support
widget panel, select Get Help > Get In Touch , select the type of
assistance you need, and then fill out the support form.
Use the Support Site 'Get Help' form. This form is available on a separate site that is made available for ticket submission when you cannot log into Bluemix and access the Support Widget. Go to http://ibm.biz/bluemixsupport and fill in the support request form.
EDIT: I saw that you opened a Support ticket and the issue was fixed. It was an issue related to your specific organization.
Just a small note. Hopefully Containers in Dallas are now working well again. In addition, I wanted to note that we strongly discourage the use of sshd in containers for security reasons. The good news is shell access is at your fingertips via the cf ic exec <contianer id> /bin/bash command. (your container may need just bash or /bin/sh YMMV)
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I created a new AKS cluster. I chose a known-good, pre-existing container image from azure container registry. I went into workloads and created new two different starter application. The first is the basic web application / sample project. That sample application appears to be working fine. I then created my second application based on my pre-existing container. I chose the option for single-image application. Once created I tried navigating to the ip address for that second application. However I'm receiving page can not be displayed.
I went into the Live Logs feature. However, nothing is ever streamed. I also tried the "Diagnose and solve problems", which detected no issues.
I'm working with the following:
Docker for Windows v20.10.11
Docker running in Windows container mode
mcr.microsoft.com/windows:1903 base image
Proprietary application installed on top of this base image
Each year we create a Docker image with the latest version of our company's software. However this year's version behaves differently. Host machine installation runs fine. Containerized installation fails to run in certain situations. I can start the application as a simple EXE, for example using the Docker run command. The app will start and show up in "tasklist". However I can't start the app via the COM API, which is a critical requirement. The problem appears to be COM related. Normally we can create COM objects for our software just like for any other application. For example, IE returns a COM object just fine:
Creating these objects for our application works outside containers. However inside the container, our latest installation gives this error:
Access permissions appear to be ok. I tried a couple tests to prove this. First I can install other software like MS Word into a container and create COM objects for that:
Second I tried retrieving + modifying the application's DACL in PowerShell.
Changing access masks or trustees can cause an Access Denied error:
This also appears to confirm the access permissions were Ok by default.
Next I made sure COM is aware of the application. This appears to be fine. I get the same result on host machine and container when running this PS script:
gci HKLM:\Software\Classes -ea 0| ? {$.PSChildName -match '^\w+.\w+$' -and
(gp "$($.PSPath)\CLSID" -ea 0)} | ft PSChildName
The application shows up just like any other. The details show up fine when querying by AppID. LocalServer32 points to the correct EXE:
Some other things I tried:
Querying registry keys. There are 7 keys created when installing our software. These appear identical on host machine install and container install.
Even though permissions appear fine, I still tried logging into the container as alternate users. For example "nt authority\system" is another virtual admin user. I also changed the password of the "builtin\administrator" user to enable logging in with that one. Lastly tried creating new users entirely and adding them to the Administrators user group. All these attempts had the same errors as "builtin\containeradministrator" (default user).
A minor check was ensuring CMD.exe / Powershell is running as x64:
Re-registering the DLLs associated with the installation using regsvr32.
Starting from different base images. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-containers/container-base-images. The full Win Server base image behaves exactly the same way regarding errors. The smaller Win Server Core base image is even more problematic, as I can't even start the app's EXE manually using that base. Lastly I tried other tags of the full Windows base image such as 20H2 and 2004. Same result from those. Multiarch or x64 makes no difference.
Included the "Ogawa hack" which was historically needed to make MS Office apps function correctly with COM: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1680214/7991646. It could be necessary for other COM apps too, but didn't help with my specific installation.
Is there anything else I can do to diagnose or solve this COM issue?
There are several things to consider:
The Considerations for server-side Automation of Office article states the following:
Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application or component (including ASP, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution.
The When CoCreateInstance returns 0x80080005 (CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE) page describes possible reasons.
If many COM+ applications run under different user accounts that are specified in the This User property, the computer cannot allocate memory to create a new desktop heap for the new user. Therefore, the process cannot start. See Error when you start many COM+ applications: Error code 80080005 -- server execution failed for more information.
Finally, you may find a similar thread here helpful, see Server execution failed (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80080005 (CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE)).
I have an image with a GUI application, with base image of microsoft/windowsservercore. Application is installed correctly in the image, however I'm unable to display it on host machine. Have read several articles on this on Google and they suggest to install XServer for Windows and then we can display the application on host machine. I have been trying to run following command (as suggested in most of the articles), however it does nothing and I don't get the display. Please assist.
docker run --rm -it -e DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 eft
The DISPLAY would be useful for Linux container.
As mentioned here:
WindwosServerCore image does not come with binaries for UI applications so I doubt this will ever work in servercore image but Microsoft insiders can use new bigger WindwosServer image which I beleive have those libraries intact.
This thread adds:
I understand that you can run GUI apps but the rendered elements are not shown on any desktop. Lars Iwer [MSFT] writes in the discussion below the article:
In the container image as it is right now, GUI elements will be rendered in session 0. UI automation should work with that (e.g. programmatically searching for a window etc.).
Session 0 is the session in which all system services are run and is by definition non-interactive. Sessions, Stations and Desktops are means of isolation in Windows (NT) and whether an application can show a UI and receive user interaction depends on whether it has an access to a Station with a Desktop.
Processes in Session 0 do not have that by default.
However it used to be possible to “Allow services to interact with Desktop” and it is also possible to run interactive services in other sessions than Session 0 (pay attention to “as it is right now”). Therefore, it would be interesting to hear some expert insights from Microsoft/Docker team on that…
I try to create a Docker image in the developerWorks organization for an article. Instead of proceeding, or asking me for a container namespace, I get this error:
BXNUI0517E: The attempt to retrieve the container namespace of the org failed because of an internal error with incident ID 238-1457636351.976-5559997. Try again later. If this problem continues, go to Support. For other help options, see the Bluemix Docs.
It has been doing it consistently for three days now. How do I use Docker on Bluemix?
In this case you should engage the IBM Containers team to investigate your space. I suggest you to open a support request using one of the following methods:
Use the Support Widget. It is available from the user avatar in the
upper right corner of the main Bluemix UI. After opening the support
widget panel, select Get Help > Get In Touch , select the type of
assistance you need, and then fill out the support form.
Use the Support Site 'Get Help' form. This form is available on a separate site that is made available for ticket submission when you cannot log into Bluemix and access the Support Widget. Go to http://ibm.biz/bluemixsupport and fill in the support request form.
Can you check namespace by running the command - "cf ic namespace get"
Also container creation in US/UK regions was not working from March 8. Refer to
https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/support/#status
RESOLVED: Possible issues with creating IBM Containers on US South and United Kingdom regions
Some users are currently experiencing issues when creating IBM Containers from the Bluemix UI in both US South and United Kingdom regions.
The UI will return a "catalog:createContainer_errorWithIncidentId" error.
The operations team is aware of the issue and is currently working to resolve it.
The IBM Containers CLI is unaffected and can be used as workaround.
Update March 9th 3:30 PM UTC (9:30AM EST): the issue has been addressed and successfully resolved.
Updated: Mar 9, 2016 9:05 PM UTC+0530
Starts: Mar 8, 2016 4:30 AM UTC+0530
Category: IBM Containers
Region(s): eu-gb
us-south
if this is the first time that you are using container before creating a container you need to create a namespace in a specific space. I suggest you to create the first container using UI\dashboard and then use that space in Command line plugin (cf ic).
login to bluemix:
- cf api https://api.[REGION].bluemix.net
- cf login -u your_email -o your_org -s yourspace_where_you_created_first_container
- cf ic login
you can retrieve the namespace for the space issue: cf ic namespace get
im trying to host my website developed in ASP.net4.0 in Ultidev's casini webserver 2.0.
bt when i try to host the same or click on http::/localhost:port, im getting following error.
Utidev webserver's windows service not running.
I dont hav clue on the windows service it's expecting.
Do i need to install any other dependencies ?
Please look at the error pic.
Please help me in this regard.
Thanks.
The host process for that application, DefaultSharedHostProcess, is having trouble starting. Look in the Windows Event Log, as well as "UWS.Installer.log.txt", "RegRepairTrace.txt" and "AppRegTrace.txt" files in the "%ProgramFiles%\UltiDev\Web Server" folder.
As there are a variety of circumstances which can lead to this error, you will need to edit your question and add in the relevant error details you discover from the logs, or go start a thread on UltiDev's support forum. For instance, I encountered this error because of a permissions issue to machine.config in a .NET 4 folder.
Ran into this today, and found if I recycle the host process, I was up and running.
In the UltiDev Web Server Explorer window on the left side, click on the Default Shared Host Process.
On the right side, you'll see a button named "Recycle Host Process". Click it, and answer Yes.
After this, the Windows Service started up, and I was able to communicate with my web app.