Go 1.22.0 triggers glibc bug affecting SingularityCE on Ubuntu 20.04 / Debian 10

[David Trudgian]

All,

When SingularityCE is built with Go 1.22.0, on at least Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, and perhaps other distributions, the resulting binary may fail to launch containers. A SIGSEV error will occur.

This is caused by a change in Go 1.22.0 triggering a bug in glibc.

The issue affects other runtimes, e.g. runc and incus.

At this time, please build SingularityCE with the latest Go 1.21.x release to avoid the issue on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 10.

An issue to track the problem has been opened on the SingularityCE repo here:

https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/issues/2677

More context is available in the runc issue tracker, and the Go issue tracker:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/65625
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/4193#issuecomment-1947700151

Cheers,

DT

[David Trudgian]

All,

The issue which caused SingularityCE to crash when using a PID namespace on Ubuntu 20.04 / Debian 10, if compiled with Go 1.22, has been resolved with the Go 1.22.4 release.

Please use Go 1.22.4 or greater, or Go 1.21 to compile SingularityCE.

Cheers,

DT