Can you install Noetic with Docker on a Raspberry Pi?

asked 2020-08-09 20:04:08 -0500

Kansai
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updated 2021-04-23 08:57:45 -0500

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I have installed (well, actually build and run a container) Kinetic and also ROS2 eloquent with docker on my raspberry pi. I am trying to do the same with Noetic but failing. Is it possible to have a Noetic container in RPi?

(For reference I write here other info)

I have build and run a Noetic container in a desktop ubuntu machine
I have read that you can install Noetic on a RPi natively
I have failed doing the following:

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 $docker pull ros:noetic

No problem here

$docker image ls

I can see the image

$docker run -it ros:noetic
Fatal Python error: pyinit_main: can't initialize time
Python runtime state: core initialized
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

Current thread 0xb6ff1460 (most recent call first):
<no Python frame>

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Could you give more details on your setup:

what RaspberryPi model are you using?
What is your host operating system?
Is your OS 32 or 64 bits?
What is your kernel version?

Can you clarify which images you built yourself vs pulled directly from dockerhub ? and why you needed to build them as opposed to using the ones upstream?

For an additional datapoint, I have a RPi 4B+ running ubuntu server 20.04 64bits and it successfully runs ros:noetic, ros:melodicand ros:eloquent containers out-of-the-box

marguedas ( 2020-08-10 11:10:55 -0500 )edit

...same problem here on a Pi 3B+ and latest Hypriot

Got the image via:

docker pull arm32v7/ros:noetic-ros-base

WaldoPepper ( 2020-08-24 08:48:04 -0500 )edit

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answered 2020-10-20 19:42:03 -0500

canderson
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updated 2020-10-20 20:05:32 -0500

;tldr try --security-opt seccomp:unconfined in your docker run command

I am running into this issue as well with the ros:noetic-ros-core-focal as well as ros:noetic builds straight from dockerhub

docker run -it --rm ros:noetic-ros-core-focal bash
    Fatal Python error: pyinit_main: can't initialize time
    Python runtime state: core initialized
    PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

I think this issue is definitely tied to the arm32 architecture as I successfully performed the above test on arm64 and amd64 architectures. I also tried installing straight from ubuntu:focal following ros.org installation instructions, but there seems to be an issue with that too, as highlighted here : https://askubuntu.com/questions/12632...

After all this, what ended up working for me was running with the --security-opt seccomp:unconfined option. This appears to be tied to some issue with libseccomp package that is breaking debian builds for arm32.

docker run --rm --name noetic-dev -it --security-opt seccomp:unconfined ros:noetic bash