In RHOCP 4, pods remain in ContainerCreating state with message: "error reserving pod name xxxx for id xxxx : name is reserved"
Issue
- When deploying new pods, following message can be seen in
events
:
(combined from similar events): Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Kubelet may be retrying requests that are timing out in CRI-O due to system load: error reserving pod name k8s_mypod_c2917xxxx for id 2adexxxx: name is reserved
- Similar message can be seen in
CRI-O logs
for containers of such pods :
warning msg="Error reserving ctr name k8s_mypod_c2917xxxx for id 2adexxxx: name is reserved"
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- 4.5
- 4.6
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