[Bug]: Error when building dev container: ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c /dev/pipes/EOF" did not complete successfully: exit code: 2

[kripper]

Is there an existing issue for the same bug?

• I have checked the existing issues.

Describe the bug and reproduction steps

Reproduce

I tried to build de dev container with:

make docker-dev

Result

695.8 FFMPEG playwright build v1009 downloaded to /root/.cache/ms-playwright/ffmpeg-1009
695.9 mkdir: cannot create directory 'cache': Read-only file system
695.9 touch: cannot touch 'cache/playwright_chromium_is_installed.txt': No such file or directory
695.9 make: *** [Makefile:130: install-python-dependencies] Error 1
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WARNING: current commit information was not captured by the build: failed to read current commit information with git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree
Dockerfile:110
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 109 |     # cache build dependencies
 110 | >>> RUN \
 111 | >>>   --mount=type=bind,source=./,target=/app/ \
 112 | >>>   <<EOF
 113 | >>> #!/bin/bash
 114 | >>> make -s clean
 115 | >>> make -s check-dependencies
 116 | >>> make -s install-python-dependencies
 117 | >>>
 118 | >>> # NOTE
 119 | >>> # node_modules are .dockerignore-d therefore not mountable
 120 | >>> # make -s install-frontend-dependencies
 121 | >>> EOF
 122 |
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ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c /dev/pipes/EOF" did not complete successfully: exit code: 2

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[kripper]

I believe it fails because my docker version doesn't support HEREDOC syntaxis.

System is:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.9 (Ootpa)

$ docker -v
Docker version 26.1.3, build b72abbb

[kripper]

No. To solve HEREDOC support, just define export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1

[piojanu]

Hi! I've bumped into it too on Mac. Did you resolve it or found a work around?

[kripper]

Yes. Solved. See above.

[piojanu]

For me the solutions seems to be simply adding rw option at the end of the --mount like this: --mount=type=bind,source=./,target=/app/,rw.

[kripper]

For me the solutions seems to be simply adding rw option at the end of the --mount like this: --mount=type=bind,source=./,target=/app/,rw.

Are you sure this solves the same issue (ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c /dev/pipes/EOF")?
HEREDOC (<<EOF ... EOF) only works with DOCKER_BUILDKIT.

[piojanu]

@kripper I think the error you reference further says, that it was executed, but did not complete successfully (full error: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c /dev/pipes/EOF" **did not complete successfully**: exit code: 2). So then I look higher and see that the actual problem is: 695.9 mkdir: cannot create directory 'cache': Read-only file system. This directory is being created by the install-python-dependencies make recipe:

install-python-dependencies:
	...
	else \
		if [ ! -f cache/playwright_chromium_is_installed.txt ]; then \
			echo "Running playwright install --with-deps chromium..."; \
			poetry run playwright install --with-deps chromium; \
			**mkdir -p cache; \**
			**touch cache/playwright_chromium_is_installed.txt; \**
		else \
			echo "Setup already done. Skipping playwright installation."; \
		fi \
	fi
        ...

So making the bind read-write solves this problem. However, further down the line be cautious for two additional problems:

1. NodeJS should be updated to >= 20.x as you did.
2. In containers/dev/compose.yml the env var SANDBOX_API_HOSTNAME should be changed to SANDBOX_LOCAL_RUNTIME_URL and also some scripts (e.g. ScienceAgentBench benchmark run_infer.py) don't read env vars at all and hence you need to properly pass it to the config created there.
   Otherwise, it hangs on Waiting for client to become ready at http://localhost:30214....

Hopefully it helps someone.