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I asked in https://matrix.to/#/!XpAJOYggtDiIfDZZBr:opensuse.org/$ps-jpbRJPTawRdS-FOGvgWNH7YQ0bEys_iE_bhBqcFs

hi guys, we observed an interesting error trying out GitHub codespaces using a Tumblweed container: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/127083 Trying that container just yields an error message in the user's browser session "An unexpected error occurred that requires a reload of this page.". Our internal ticket https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/161399 . Leap 15.5 works fine so we use that as workaround for now. Any idea what could cause this?

I just tested codespace proposed in https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/18324 , that is also a TW based one, and nowadays is broken in the same way:

An unexpected error occurred that requires a reload of this page.
The workbench failed to connect to the server (Error: exception was thrown by handler. exception: failed to start vs code remote server.)

Issue in TW not to be usable for codespace is the lack of awk in the default container image

In TW

$ podman run --rm opensuse/tumbleweed:latest awk --version

Error: crun: executable file `awk` not found in $PATH: No such file or directory: OCI runtime attempted to invoke a command that was not found

In Leap

$ podman run --rm opensuse/leap:15.5 awk --version
GNU Awk 4.2.1, API: 2.0
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2018 Free Software Foundation......

AWK is needed by part of the codespace deployment, one of the latest part where some binary are "uploaded" in the running container to allow communication with the VScode that "host" it.

Viable solution is to change the codespace config file to get TW using a Dockerfile and then install awk as part of it (to be safe awk and tar as both are required by the codespace deployment process).

Here some "documentation" --> https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/9620
Here an example about how to fix it --> https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/18324 and in particular https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/18324/commits/084a5706d981dc22ca14d3ef159a8d95a4585d19