[BUG] - [aarch64-darwin, docker] cardano-node docker image stops and cli shows CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH error

[hansamann]

External

Running cardano-node in a docker container and connecting via ipc

I am trying to run cardano-node in docker container A and want to use cardano-cli in docker container B. The Docker Hub page shows a simple example in which /ipc is volume-mounted in both containers. But when I execute cardano-cli in the second container, the node stops and the cli prints this error:

bash-4.4# cardano-cli query utxo --address $address --mainnet
Command failed: query utxo Error: Error while looking up environment variable: CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH Error: "CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH"

Steps to reproduce

1. start cardano-node, e.g.
   docker run -e NETWORK=mainnet -v /Users/xxx/dev/cardano-node-mint/node-ipc:/ipc inputoutput/cardano-node
   -> starts up and syncs, seems to run fine

2. start second container just for cli usage
   docker -it -e NETWORK=mainnet -v /Users/I511648/dev/cardano-node-mint/node-ipc:/ipc --entrypoint /bin/bash inputoutput/cardano-node

Then ty running a command like

cardano-cli query utxo --address xxx--mainnet
Command failed: query utxo Error: Error while looking up environment variable: CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH Error: "CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH"

Moments before the cardano-node in the first container will also stop. I tried to set CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH explicitly to /ipc/node.socket but it does not change the issue.

Expected behavior
cardano-node keeps working and cardano-cli prints the address info

System info (please complete the following information):
Docker on Mac Os X

cardano-node 1.34.1 - linux-x86_64 - ghc-8.10
git rev 73f9a74

cardano-cli 1.34.1 - linux-x86_64 - ghc-8.10
git rev 73f9a74

[hansamann]

Theres even a simpler way to check this out:

1. create docker volumes:
   docker volume create cardano-node-data
   docker volume create cardano-node-ipc

2. run cardano-node
   docker run --name cardano-node -e NETWORK=mainnet -v cardano-node-ipc:/ipc -v cardano-node-data:/data -it inputoutput/cardano-node

3. run bash in this container
   docker exec -it cardano-node bash

4. simply run cardano-cli

-> cardano-node will stop immediately. Cardano-cli will report an error.

Expected:
cardano-node keeps running and cardano-cli is able to use the cardano-node via ipc and fetch the result.

[KaloyanYosifov]

I am on a Mac M1 chip and have the same issue. I run the Cardano node through docker and as soon as I type the cardano-cli command not even doing anything I just type cardano-cli and the container crashes.

I am providing 10GB and 4 cores to docker.

Has anyone found a workaround?

[romainPellerin]

I am facing the same issue as @KaloyanYosifov describes on a Mac M1 Max chip

[angerman]

I could only reproduce this issue on aarch64-darwin. I've updated the title accordingly.

[angerman]

This is indeed a bug with docker for Mac running x86_64-linux images on aarch64-darwin. Using a native aarch64-linux image, does not seem to exhibit this issue. If someone wants to try, I've pushed an aarch64-linux image to

gcr.io/spatial-ship-359809/cardano-node:1.35.3-configs

[bigbenbeer]

Just spooled up a new AWS EC2 for Dev work and I am getting the same error. In my case, I tried to run the query tip --mainnet command and got the following error.

Command failed: query tip  Error: Error while looking up environment variable: CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH  Error: "CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH"

I managed to fix it by bash-ing into the docker container while running and setting the environment variable. I suspect one could also do it at the time of running the docker image.