[BUG] running the demo start flyte app crashes due to permission error on apple's M4

[norbit8]

Describe the bug

Running flytectl demo start loads up the container and then immediately crashes.

Expected behavior

The flyte's container up and running, being able to take requests.

Additional context to reproduce

First, I'm using apple's silicon M4 CPU (not sure it has anything to do with that though but just for the context)
Now, these are the steps that I've been taking that lead me to this error:

1. Installed flytesctl
2. Installed docker desktop
3. launched docker desktop
4. Ran flytectl demo start

• note that it downloads this commit associated with a deployed tag - 8a5f54c

5. Got this error from inside the container:

2025-01-01 17:15:06 I0101 15:15:06.341726      77 server.go:156] Version: v1.29.0+k3s1
2025-01-01 17:15:06 I0101 15:15:06.341742      77 server.go:158] "Golang settings" GOGC="" GOMAXPROCS="" GOTRACEBACK=""
2025-01-01 17:15:06 time="2025-01-01T15:15:06Z" level=error msg="Failed to generate kubeconfig: open /var/lib/flyte/config/kubeconfig: permission denied"
2025-01-01 17:15:06 time="2025-01-01T15:15:06Z" level=fatal msg="open /var/lib/flyte/config/kubeconfig: permission denied"

Screenshots

From my CLI:

From Docker desktop:

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[wild-endeavor]

Is there any other information you can provide on this? It doesn't repro for me though i'm on an M1. This file is supposed to end up in ~/.flyte/sandbox which is mounted into that /var/lib path you see.

Do you think you can try:

• using something like Orbstack instead of docker desktop?
• what happens if you run that image (the flyte-sandbox-bundled image) manually, mount in that folder, and try to touch a file there?

the only other thing i see if this

:~/.flyte [flyte-sandbox]$ l k3s
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  23 ytong  staff   736B Jan  2 12:56 ../
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ytong  staff    32B Jan  2 12:56 k3s.yaml@ -> /var/lib/flyte/config/kubeconfig

which may be causing a permissions issue. This is written to as part of the mount here by k3s/rancher itself. Keep in mind it's just a link... the file doesn't actually exist there on host.

[wild-endeavor]

@norbit8 - if you're still facing this issue, could you try running colima as your docker runtime instead of Docker Desktop? We've had good luck with that as well in addition to orbstack.

[norbit8]

@wild-endeavor Updating that I've tried with Orbstack and got the same issue, will try again with colima and update