Issues

• gvisor-tap-vsock outbound TCP forwarding stalls with RootlessKit 3.1.0 / Docker 29.8.1

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#644 · Filter by author KirillShchetinnikov opened on Sep 29, 2026

• Investigate --copy-up-mode=overlayfs as a potential alternative to --copy-up-mode=tmpfs+symlink

  enhancementexperimentalpriority/low
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#638 · Filter by author AkihiroSuda opened on Sep 9, 2026 · v4.0.0 maybe

• [v4] Avoid hard-coding version in pkg/version/version.go

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#631 · Filter by author AkihiroSuda opened on Sep 8, 2026 · v4.0.0 maybe

• gvisor-tap-vsock: connecting to existing socket

  enhancement
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#604 · Filter by author liyam-ruston opened on Jun 27, 2026

• gvisor-tap-vsock port driver does not propagate the src IP

  bug
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#573 · Filter by author AkihiroSuda opened on Apr 7, 2026 · v3.3.0 maybe
  3

• rootlesskit hangs in a session with no_new_privs set

  enhancement
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#551 · Filter by author ricardobranco777 opened on Jan 2, 2026 · v4.0.0 maybe
  11

• [v1.0.1] Port forwarding fails under high concurrency load. (accept4: too many open files)

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#536 · Filter by author Javier-VL opened on Oct 23, 2025
  6

• pidns reaper requirement

  enhancement
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#532 · Filter by author JosiahWhite opened on Oct 1, 2025

• Consider --net=auto to choose the best network driver automatically

  enhancement
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#520 · Filter by author AkihiroSuda opened on Jul 10, 2025 · v4.0.0 maybe
  1

• Consider vendoring dependencies

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#504 · Filter by author bentekkie opened on Apr 2, 2025
  1

• Support allocating subuids via systemd-nsresourced

  enhancement
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#471 · Filter by author AkihiroSuda opened on Oct 23, 2024

• Alpine: [rootlesskit:parent] error: failed to setup network (open: No such file or directory)

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#441 · Filter by author Gilk260 opened on May 29, 2024
  4

• More descriptive / detailed error expected

  enhancement
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#439 · Filter by author DenisBalan opened on May 13, 2024

• Debian 12 : Outside not reachable from rootless docker networks when enabling source IP propagation

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#434 · Filter by author g-azerad opened on Apr 29, 2024
  1

• Encountered error [rootlesskit:parent] error: failed to start the child: fork/exec /proc/self/exe: operation not permitted when build the docker image

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#425 · Filter by author ponkio-o opened on Mar 12, 2024
  10

• Run podman inside rootlesskit shell

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#405 · Filter by author amosbird opened on Nov 26, 2023

• [rootlesskit:parent] error: failed to setup UID/GID map [...] newuidmap: write to uid_map failed: Operation not permitted

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#404 · Filter by author yuvipanda opened on Nov 24, 2023
  8

• lxc-user-nic make docker panic (panic: could not exchange DHCP with eth0: timed out while listening for replies)

  bug
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#387 · Filter by author changsu-axq opened on Jul 28, 2023
  2

• run Chromium as user

  question
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#374 · Filter by author umumax opened on Jun 8, 2023

• Share a network between 2 rootless instances

  question
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#367 · Filter by author Youpiiiii opened on May 18, 2023
  5

• builtin port forwarder cannot handle oob data

  enhancement
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#363 · Filter by author Luap99 opened on Apr 27, 2023

• The host root filesystem is mounted as "master:943". Setting child propagation to "rslave" is not supported.

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#359 · Filter by author roshvin opened on Mar 23, 2023

• Stopping and starting the container daemon when containers are running fails

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#355 · Filter by author nachevn opened on Feb 24, 2023
  1

• DAC_OVERRIDE is required to work properly

  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#334 · Filter by author Riktastic opened on Oct 25, 2022
  2

• Terminates under EKS with msg="killing slirp4netns"

  bug
  rootless-containers/rootlesskit#328 · Filter by author dg424 opened on Oct 4, 2022
  2