[R-sig-Fedora] R not working in F34 docker image

[Iñaki Ucar]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 12:22, Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure if this is a bug in the F34 docker image or R rpm. I would
> like to test some things in F34 so I tried:
>
>   docker run -it fedora:34
>
> And then in docker:
>
>    yum update
>    yum install R-core
>
> But when I try to start R I get an error:
>
>   ERROR: R_HOME ('/usr/lib64/R') not found

See [1]. TL;DR, this is due to a change in glibc, and needs to be
addressed in runc and/or libseccomp.

However, I cannot reproduce this in Fedora 33 using Docker version
20.10.1, build 831ebea or podman version 3.0.1. So hopefully an update
would solve the issue for you. Otherwise, see the thread in [1] for
workarounds.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900021#c3

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Iñaki Úcar