I'm using Docker to running automated browser testing using nightwatch.js
When I open an interactive terminal it works fine, e.g.
docker run -it --rm username/image-name /bin/bash
that gives me a bash prompt and I run:
xvfb-run node nightwatch.js
and everything works fine.
But when I run:
docker run --rm username/image-name xvfb-run node nightwatch.js
It just hangs.
What's the difference between opening a bash terminal and manually running the test command, and just running the test command directly? Surely they should both work?
Ok so I still don't know what is causing this issue, but I have a workaround that works quite well:
Run bash as a daemon:
CONTAINERID=$(docker run -it -d username/image-name /bin/bash)
Then use docker exec:
docker exec $CONTAINERID xvfb-run node nightwatch.js
Of course you will need to do some tidying up afterwards:
docker stop $CONTAINERID
docker rm $CONTAINERID
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I've registered a GitLab Runner with shell executor installed on Ubuntu 18.04, and also set up a docker container with the command below
docker run -it --gpus '"device=0"' --net=host -v /home/autotest/Desktop/ai_platform:/app --name=ai_platform_system nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:20.10-py3 "bash"
Then I tried to execute the following command from the gitlab-ci.yml in Gitlab CI, but I got an error "The input device is not a TTY".
docker attach ai_platform_system
Any clues for this issue except using docker exec? I know docker exec works in Gitlab CI environment but it will create a new session in the container which is not desirable for me. Thanks!
According to this answer (for Jenkins but the same problem) you need to remove the -it flag and the tty.
docker run -T --gpus '"device=0"' --net=host -v /home/autotest/Desktop/ai_platform:/app --name=ai_platform_system nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:20.10-py3 "bash"
I have a linux server, with no connectivity to github (it's blocked in our office), and need to run standalone-chrome-debug docker image.
So in my side, i clone the repo and transfer it to the linux machine, but when i run the docker command:
docker run -d -p 4444:4444 -p 0:5900 -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm -e VNC_NO_PASSWORD=1 selenium/standalone-chrome-debug
i got a lot of error, such as entry_point.sh not found, and different similar issues of missing files, so my question is:
how can i make this docker run successfully , if i have the repository locally, and have no access to github, can you assist me with this issue ?
I am experimenting with Docker and am very new to it. I am struck at a point for a long time and am not getting a way through and hence came up with this question here...
Problem Statement:
I am trying to create an image from a docker file containing Apache and lynx installation. Once done I am trying to access tomcat on 8080 of the container which is in turn forwarded to the 8082 of the host. But when running the image I never get tomcat started in the container.
The Docker file
FROM ubuntu:16.10
#Install Lynx
Run apt-get update
Run apt-get install -y lynx
#Install Curl
Run apt-get install -y curl
#Install tools: jdk
Run apt-get update
Run apt-get install -y openjdk-8-jdk wget
#Install apache tomcat
Run groupadd tomcat
Run useradd -s /bin/false -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat tomcat
Run cd /tmp
Run curl -O http://apache.mirrors.ionfish.org/tomcat/tomcat- 8/v8.5.12/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.12.tar.gz
Run mkdir /opt/tomcat
Run tar xzvf apache-tomcat-8*tar.gz -C /opt/tomcat --strip-components=1
Run cd /opt/tomcat
Run chgrp -R tomcat /opt/tomcat
Run chmod -R g+r /opt/tomcat/conf
Run chmod g+x /opt/tomcat/conf
Run chown -R tomcat /opt/tomcat/webapps /opt/tomcat/work /opt/tomcat/temp opt/tomcat/logs
Run cd /opt/tomcat/bin
Expose 8080
CMD /opt/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh run && tail -f /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
When the image is built I tried running the container by the two below methods
docker run -d -p 8082:8080 imageid tail -f /dev/null
While using the above, container is running but tomcat is not started inside the container and hence not accessible from localhost:8082. Also I do not see anything if I perform docker logs longcontainerid
docker run -d -p 8082:8080 imageid /path/to/catalina.sh start tail -f /dev/null
I see tomcat started when I do docker logs longconatainrid
While using the above the container is started and stopped immediately and is not running as I can see from docker ps and hence again not accessible from localhost:8082.
Can anyone please tell me where I am going wrong?
P.s. I searched a lot on the internet but could not get the thing right. Might be there is some concept that i am not getting clearly.
Looking at the docker run command documentation, the doc states that any command passed to the run will override the original CMD in your Dockerfile:
As the operator (the person running a container from the image), you can override that CMD instruction just by specifying a new COMMAND
1/ Then when you run:
docker run -d -p 8082:8080 imageid tail -f /dev/null
The container is run with COMMAND tail -f /dev/null, the original command starting tomcat is overridden.
To resolve your problem, try to run:
docker run -d -p 8082:8080 imageid
and
docker log -f containerId
To see if tomcat is correctly started.
2/ You should not use the start argument with catalina.sh. Have a look at this official tomcat Dokerfile, the team uses :
CMD ["catalina.sh", "run"]
to start tomcat (when you use start, docker ends container at the end of the shell script and tomcat will start but not maintain a running process).
3/ Finally, why don't you use tomcat official image to build your container? You could just use the :
FROM tomcat:latest
directive at the beginning of your Dockerfile, and add you required elements (new files, webapps war, settings) to the docker image.
I am currently learning to use docker to run selenium tests.
However, to run tests on different versions of the browser, it requires creating our own image.
I tried few ways but failed to run them.
I used the docker file at below path:
https://hub.docker.com/r/selenium/node-chrome/~/dockerfile/
and tried to build the image by using the following command:
docker build -t my-chrome-image --build-arg CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION=2.23 --build-arg CHROME_VERSION=google-chrome-beta=53.0.2785.92-1 NodeChrome
Can anyone guide me on how to implement the same?
Regards,
Ashwin Karangutkar
Use
docker build -t my-chrome-image --build-arg CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION=2.23 --build-arg CHROME_VERSION=google-chrome-beta <path_to_Dockerfile>
I am using elgalu/selenium.
docker run -d --name=grid -p 4444:24444 -p 5900:25900 --shm-size=1g elgalu/selenium
And looking in elgalu looks like you can change the browser versions.
Adding -e FIREFOX_VERSION=38.0.6 to the docker run command.
updated: added the missing docker attach.
Hi am trying to run a docker container, with -dti. but I cannot access with a terminal set to dumb. is there a way to change this (it is currently set to xterm, even though my ssh client is dumb)
example:
create the container
docker run -dti --name test -v /my-folder alpine /bin/ash
docker attach test
apk --update add nodejs
cd /my-folder
npm install -g gulp
the last command always contains ascii escape chars to move the cursor.
I have tried "export TERM=dumb" inside the running container, but it does not work.
is there a way to "run" this using the dumb terminal?
I am running this from a script on another computer, via (dumb) ssh.
using the -t which sets this https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#env-environment-variables, however removing effects the command prompt (the prompt is not shown)
possible solution 1 remove the -t and keep the -i. To see if the command has completed echo out a known token (ENDENDEND). ie
docker run -di --name test -v /my-folder alpine /bin/ash
docker attach test
apk --update add nodejs;echo ENDENDEND
cd /my-folder;echo ENDENDEND
npm install -g gulp;echo ENDENDEND
not pretty, but it works (there is no ascii in the results)
Possible solution 2 use the journal, docker can log out to the linux journal, this can be gathered as commands are executed in the container. (I have yet to fully test this one out. however the log seems to be a nicer output of what happened)
update:
Yep -t is the problem.
However if you want to see the entire process when running a command, maybe this way is better:
docker run -di --name test -v/my-folder alpine /bin/ash
docker exec -it test /bin/ash
finally you need to kill the container after all jobs finished.
docker run -d means "Run container in background and print container ID"
not start the container as a daemon
I was hitting this issue on OSx running docker, i had to do 2 things to stop the terminal/ascii/ansi escape sequences.
remove the "t" option on the docker run command (from docker run -it ... to docker run -i...)
ensure to force bash or sh shells used on osx when running the command from a script file, not the default zsh
Also
the escape sequences were not always visible on the terminal
even so, they still usually caused content corruption, even with SED brought to bear
they always were shown in my editor