Rclone mounted folder is empty - Run from Podman

[albi (Alberto Fabbri)]

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

When I mount a folder with rclone using podman it seems to work, I do not get any error, but the mounted folder stays empty.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

Container:

rclone v1.63.1
- os/version: alpine 3.18.2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.4.9-1-default (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.20.6
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

OS:
OpenSuse Aeon

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

pCloud

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

podman run --rm --volume ~/.config/rclone:/config/rclone --volume ~/pCloud:/data:shared --user $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume /etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro --volume /etc/group:/etc/group:ro --device /dev/fuse --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --security-opt apparmor:unconfined rclone/rclone mount --allow-non-empty -vv pCloudAlbi: /data

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[pCloudAlbi]
type = pcloud
hostname = eapi.pcloud.com
token = {"access_token":"***REDACTED***"}

A log from the command with the -vv flag

2023/08/13 21:28:38 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.63.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mount" "--allow-non-empty" "-vv" "pCloudAlbi:" "/data"]
2023/08/13 21:28:38 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "pCloudAlbi:"
2023/08/13 21:28:38 DEBUG : Using config file from "/config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2023/08/13 21:28:38 INFO  : pcloud root '': poll-interval is not supported by this remote
2023/08/13 21:28:38 NOTICE: pcloud root '': --vfs-cache-mode writes or full is recommended for this remote as it can't stream
2023/08/13 21:28:38 DEBUG : pcloud root '': Mounting on "/data"
2023/08/13 21:28:38 DEBUG : : Root: 
2023/08/13 21:28:38 DEBUG : : >Root: node=/, err=<nil>

I am very new to Linux so please be a bit patient with me

[kapitainsky]

Try to add

--allow-other      Allow access to other users (not supported on Windows)

flag to your mount command.

[albi (Alberto Fabbri)]

Thank you for the suggestion! Unfortunately nothing changes, the output is exactly the same as before a part from:

2023/08/14 09:28:04 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.63.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mount" "--allow-non-empty" "--allow-other" "-vv" "pCloudAlbi:" "/data"]

which is obviously expected.

It seems strange to me that after printing those eight lines nothing happens... with no obvious error.

EDIT:

I got this error upon stopping rclone:

^C2023/08/14 09:38:43 INFO  : Signal received: interrupt
2023/08/14 09:38:43 ERROR : /data: Unmounted rclone mount
2023/08/14 09:38:43 INFO  : Exiting...
ERRO[0000] read /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/user.slice/libpod-df425194ab7bea9639b9bc95c46cd9a8bd001e74926d9467d9a06f05132a5574.scope/cgroup.freeze: no such device 

I am not sure what that means though.

[kapitainsky]

and what about trying the same command without podman? Does it work?

[albi (Alberto Fabbri)]

I am using an immutable distro and I need podman because installing things on the base system is discouraged.

I could maybe try to install rclone on the base OS and then rollback to a previous btfrs snapshot but I am not sure how relevant that would be.

I have googled around a bit and found a similar issue on the podman repository from 2020, maybe I should open an issue there?

It would be interesting to know if I am the first one experiencing this issue with rclone.