devcontainer process exited with exit code 1 followed by compressed JavaScript gibberish is not very help to understand problem

[vorburger]

When I attempted to create a new GitHub codespace from enola-dev/enola#518,

please note that I am filing this problem using the original first commit 0637b590347653481c7675fa3fc94e88b4a58cdc of that PR, but will shortly be amending the PR with further experimentation, the initial .devcontainer/devcontainer.json looked like this, with all comments removed, just for brevity:

{
  "name": "Enola.dev's Dev Containers.dev",

  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/universal:2-linux",

  "onCreateCommand": "/workspaces/enola/test.bash",

  "features": {
    "ghcr.io/devcontainers-community/features/bazel:1": {
      "bazelisk_version": "v1.19.0"
    },

    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/java:1": {
      "version": "21",
      "installMaven": "false",
      "installGradle": "false"
    }
  },

  "hostRequirements": {
    "cpus": 16
  }
}

it failed like this - and I thought this compressed JavaScript gibberish log was "not very helpful" to understand problem:

2024-02-20 21:47:30.848Z: Host information
2024-02-20 21:47:30.858Z: ----------------
2024-02-20 21:47:30.859Z: OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (stable release)
2024-02-20 21:47:30.860Z: Image details: https://github.com/github/codespaces-host-images/blob/main/README.md
2024-02-20 21:47:30.862Z: ----------------

=================================================================================
2024-02-20 21:47:30.863Z: Configuration starting...
2024-02-20 21:47:30.865Z: Cloning...
2024-02-20 21:47:30.880Z: $ git -C "/var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace" clone --branch "codespaces-again" --depth 1 https://github.com/vorburger/enola "/var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/enola"
2024-02-20 21:47:30.991Z: Cloning into '/var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/enola'...
2024-02-20 21:47:32.558Z: git process exited with exit code 0
2024-02-20 21:47:32.562Z: $ git -C "/var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/enola" config --local remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
2024-02-20 21:47:32.565Z: git process exited with exit code 0
2024-02-20 21:47:32.680Z: Using image: mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/universal

=================================================================================
2024-02-20 21:47:33.015Z: Creating container...
2024-02-20 21:47:33.049Z: $ devcontainer up --id-label Type=codespaces --workspace-folder /var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/enola --mount type=bind,source=/.codespaces/agent/mount/cache,target=/vscode --user-data-folder /var/lib/docker/codespacemount/.persistedshare --container-data-folder .vscode-remote/data/Machine --container-system-data-folder /var/vscode-remote --log-level trace --log-format json --update-remote-user-uid-default never --mount-workspace-git-root false --omit-config-remote-env-from-metadata --skip-non-blocking-commands --skip-post-create --config "/var/lib/docker/codespacemount/workspace/enola/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json" --override-config /root/.codespaces/shared/merged_devcontainer.json --default-user-env-probe loginInteractiveShell --container-session-data-folder /workspaces/.codespaces/.persistedshare/devcontainers-cli/cache --secrets-file /root/.codespaces/shared/user-secrets-envs.json
2024-02-20 21:47:33.214Z: @devcontainers/cli 0.56.1. Node.js v18.19.0. linux 6.2.0-1019-azure x64.
2024-02-20 21:47:33.401Z: Resolving Feature dependencies for 'ghcr.io/devcontainers-community/features/bazel:1'...
2024-02-20 21:47:33.994Z: Resolving Feature dependencies for 'ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/java:1'...
2024-02-20 21:47:34.458Z: Soft-dependency 'ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/common-utils' is not required.  Removing from installation order...
2024-02-20 21:47:34.851Z: /.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:11
2024-02-20 21:47:34.856Z: devcontainer process exited with exit code 1
2024-02-20 21:47:35.441Z: `).reduce(ZO,Object.create(null)),ZO=(e,A)=>{let t=parseInt(A,10);if(t!==Buffer.byteLength(A)+1)return e;A=A.slice((t+" ").length);let i=A.split("="),r=i.shift().replace(/^SCHILY\.(dev|ino|nlink)/,"$1");if(!r)return e;let n=i.join("=");return e[r]=/^([A-Z]+\.)?([mac]|birth|creation)time$/.test(r)?new Date(n*1e3):/^[0-9]+$/.test(n)?+n:n,e};CS.exports=LI});var bs=G((soA,BS)=>{BS.exports=e=>{let A=e.length-1,t=-1;for(;A>-1&&e.charAt(A)==="/";)t=A,A--;return t===-1?e:e.slice(0,t)}});var GB=G((goA,ES)=>{"use strict";ES.exports=e=>class extends e{warn(A,t,i={}){this.file&&(i.file=this.file),this.cwd&&(i.cwd=this.cwd),i.code=t instanceof Error&&t.code||A,i.tarCode=A,!this.strict&&i.recoverable!==!1?(t instanceof Error&&(i=Object.assign(t,i),t=t.message),this.emit("warn",i.tarCode,t,i)):t instanceof Error?this.emit("error",Object.assign(t,i)):this.emit("error",Object.assign(new Error(`${A}: ${t}

(...)

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====================================== ERROR ====================================
2024-02-20 21:47:35.447Z: Failed to create container.
=================================================================================
2024-02-20 21:47:35.448Z: Error: 
2024-02-20 21:47:35.451Z: Error code: 1302 (UnifiedContainersErrorFatalCreatingContainer)

====================================== ERROR ====================================
2024-02-20 21:47:35.452Z: Container creation failed.
=================================================================================
2024-02-20 21:47:35.454Z: 

===================================== WARNING ===================================
2024-02-20 21:47:35.455Z: Creating recovery container.
=================================================================================

(...)

Here is the ful log.

Perhaps you would consider making this more end-user friendly, and print some more understandable root cause of the failure?

[vorburger]

I've debugged this a bit more, and it's ghcr.io/devcontainers-community/features/bazel:1 which seems to be the one causing it (the ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/java:1 appears irrelvant), I suspect that this should be easily reproducible with this minimal example:

{
  "name": "Reproduce https://github.com/devcontainers/cli/issues/766",

  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/universal:2-linux",

  "features": {
    "ghcr.io/devcontainers-community/features/bazel:1": {
      "bazelisk_version": "v1.19.0"
    }
  }
}

Based on this, I've now created devcontainers-community/features-bazel#10.

Keeping this issue open because IMHO it would still be great if Dev Containers (the infrastructure, not the feature) would avoid spewing the compressed JavaScript gibberish.

[samruddhikhandale]

Thanks for reporting to devcontainers-community/features-bazel#10

The "JavaScript gibberish" you're seeing is likely the result of an error or exception that's causing a minified JavaScript file to be output in your logs. This can make it difficult to understand what's going wrong.

(Moving this issue to the cli repo)