George L. Malone

I am also seeing this, with Apptainer version 1.1.2 running inside an Alpine Linux image, which itself is running in Apptainer version 1.1.0. It looks like I'm running into a...

Slightly different error message for a Rocky Linux-based image, after installing the dependencies for CentOS/RHEL as shown in [INSTALL.md](https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/blob/main/INSTALL.md#install-system-dependencies): ``` $ apptainer exec sif/rocky_apptainer.sif apptainer build --fakeroot --fix-perms --sandbox TEST_alpine/...

@DrDaveD Can confirm that building a Rocky Linux image within a Rocky Linux image completes successfully! However, building the same Rocky Linux image fails if using the Alpine image as...

Absolutely, I will give that a shot today. And indeed the images are significantly different in size, the Rocky Linux SIF is at least double the size of the Alpine...

@DrDaveD I gave the patch a shot -- I prepared a sandbox of the Alpine image until just before compiling Apptainer, added the patch, compiled and installed, then made a...

Hmmm, I may have done something a bit wrong, in that case -- I didn't get the info message, but the build of Apptainer where `--fakeroot` is used is built...

I've made sure the patch is present, then rebuilt Apptainer within the image, then re-run the test -- I am not seeing the INFO message. One thing that occurs to...

I should perhaps have clarified before -- I cannot use `sudo` or fakeroot in the outer image on the remote system, hence why I've been attempting to create an environment...

Fakeroot is not available, and it also looks like squashfuse is not present -- maybe this is the key problem. The system relies on Slurm and modules for resource allocation...

I think I am not able to ask the admin to install fakeroot and the fuse utils, so this may be a stopping point for me at the moment. However,...