Failure to start container failing to write to cgroup.procs: invalid argument

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
A container may fail to start when writing to cgroup.procs with the following error message:

 runc exec: exit status 1: exec failed: container_linux.go:348: starting container
 process caused "process_linux.go:90: adding pid 3584601 to cgroups caused \"failed
 to write 3584601 to cgroup.procs: write /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/garden/ea890747-
c867-4e33-4b90-da6207abb3eb/cgroup.procs: invalid argument\""

Environment

Cause

This issue has been identified by multiple users:
 

• https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/1884

Resolution

A fix is included from garden-runc v1.17.2:
 

• https://github.com/cloudfoundry/garden-runc-release/commit/44730e1544ce2efc70882668c0dbc651dcc1eb07

Note: This garden-runc version will be shipped in the next PAS release.