Podman pull fails with reported 503 "Service Unavailable" error
Issue
When pulling images, either directly or through a container platform, the pull fails with a 503 "Service Unavailable" error:
# podman pull quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:039a4ef7c128a049ccf916a1d68ce93e8f5494b44d5a75df60c85e9e7191dacc --authfile pull-secret-5.json
Trying to pull quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:039a4ef7c128a049ccf916a1d68ce93e8f5494b44d5a75df60c85e9e7191dacc...Getting image source signatures
Copying blob cf5693de4d3c done
Copying blob 1b608614ec70 done
Copying blob 0bdf97977791 done
Copying blob de790f475ddb done
Copying blob 8b8c7ad8f3fb done
ERRO[0141] Error pulling image ref //quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:039a4ef7c128a049ccf916a1d68ce93e8f5494b44d5a75df60c85e9e7191dacc: Error reading blob sha256:23302e52b49d49a0a25da8ea870bc1973e7d51c9b306f3539cd397318bd8b0a5: Invalid status code returned when fetching blob 503 (Service Unavailable)
Failed
Error: error pulling image "quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:039a4ef7c128a049ccf916a1d68ce93e8f5494b44d5a75df60c85e9e7191dacc": unable to pull quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:039a4ef7c128a049ccf916a1d68ce93e8f5494b44d5a75df60c85e9e7191dacc: unable to pull image: Error reading blob sha256:23302e52b49d49a0a25da8ea870bc1973e7d51c9b306f3539cd397318bd8b0a5: Invalid status code returned when fetching blob 503 (Service Unavailable)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Openshift Container Platform
- Client system where the pull is being requested is behind a proxy which is making use of an AV scanner
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