Why does the container fail to start with the message "running exec setns process for init caused \\\\\\\"exit status 4\\\\\\\"\\\"\\n\"" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Why does the container fail to start with the message "running exec setns process for init caused \\\\"exit status 4\\\\"\\"\n\"" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ?
    From the logs
Jan 17 17:16:13 testlabs dockerd-current: time="2018-01-17T17:16:13.035651824-05:00" level=error msg="Handler for POST /v1.24/containers/3692533f95a1/start returned error: invalid header field value \"oci runtime error: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused \\\"process_linux.go:245: running exec setns process for init caused \\\\\\\"exit status 4\\\\\\\"\\\"\\n\""
  • Already followed the recommendation mentioned in kbase article 3238201, error message is still noticed

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • user namespace enabled
  • docker-1.12.6-61.git85d7426.el7.x86_64

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