Confusing error "Can't get Docker image: XXX" with message "invalid reference format"

[danblack]

I got a confusing message that didn't reveal a real cause of the problem.
There was an incorrect address of additional containers specified in testcontainers.properties
but the exception's stack trace and its message hide the real cause printing out information about problems with my main docker image.

Here is my stack trace

Caused by:
        org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerFetchException: Can't get Docker image: RemoteDockerImage(imageName=yandex/clickhouse-server:latest, imagePullPolicy=DefaultPullPolicy())
            at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.getDockerImageName(GenericContainer.java:1279)
            at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.logger(GenericContainer.java:613)
            at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.doStart(GenericContainer.java:320)
            ... 71 more

            Caused by:
            com.github.dockerjava.api.exception.BadRequestException: {"message":"invalid reference format"}
                at com.github.dockerjava.okhttp.OkHttpInvocationBuilder.execute(OkHttpInvocationBuilder.java:283)
                at com.github.dockerjava.okhttp.OkHttpInvocationBuilder.lambda$executeAndStream$4(OkHttpInvocationBuilder.java:317)
                ... 1 more

Here is a repository (https://github.com/danblack/testcontainers-confusing-error), where you can run './gradlew test' and get a stack trace I mentioned above.

But the real problem was in testcontainers.properties

tinyimage.container.image = xxx-site-xxx.com/alpine:3.5
ryuk.container.image = xxx-site-xxx.com/testcontainersofficial/ryuk:0.3.0 

There are image names that don't exist.

[bsideup]

Hey @danblack,

Could you please try Testcontainers 1.15.0-rc1?

[danblack]

Hi, @bsideup
Almost nothing changed

Caused by:
        org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerFetchException: Can't get Docker image: RemoteDockerImage(imageName=yandex/clickhouse-server:latest, imagePullPolicy=DefaultPullPolicy())
            at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.getDockerImageName(GenericContainer.java:1284)
            at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.logger(GenericContainer.java:618)
            at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.doStart(GenericContainer.java:323)
            ... 71 more

            Caused by:
            com.github.dockerjava.api.exception.BadRequestException: Status 400: {"message":"invalid reference format"}
                at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.DefaultInvocationBuilder.execute(DefaultInvocationBuilder.java:237)
                at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.DefaultInvocationBuilder.lambda$executeAndStream$1(DefaultInvocationBuilder.java:269)
``

[AshanthaLahiru]

I'm also getting following error when running maven test goal. But same test class is working fine in intelliJ IDE.

org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerLaunchException: Container startup failed
Caused by: org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerFetchException: Can't get Docker image: RemoteDockerImage(imageName=selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59, imagePullPolicy=DefaultPullPolicy())
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find a valid Docker environment. Please see logs and check configuration

Is there any workaround for this?

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[shaikhamaan]

I am also getting the same error while running gradlew test. There are two parts to my issue. When I tried running tests in gradle for the first time it couldn't get the docker environment, i tried updating the link for docker.sock as I am using colima. After creating the link the error changed to couldn't get the docker image

org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerFetchException: Can't get Docker image: RemoteDockerImage(imageName=afs_postgres:latest, imagePullPolicy=DefaultPullPolicy(), imageNameSubstitutor=org.testcontainers.utility.ImageNameSubstitutor$LogWrappedImageNameSubstitutor@10ba49b4)
io.kotest.core.listeners.BeforeProjectListenerException: org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerFetchException: Can't get Docker image: RemoteDockerImage(imageName=afs_postgres:latest, imagePullPolicy=DefaultPullPolicy(), imageNameSubstitutor=org.testcontainers.utility.ImageNameSubstitutor$LogWrappedImageNameSubstitutor@10ba49b4)
	at io.kotest.core.spec.LifecycleKt.beforeProject(lifecycle.kt:54)
	at io.kotest.engine.KotestEngine.execute(KotestEngine.kt:58)
	at io.kotest.engine.KotestEngineLauncher$launch$1.invokeSuspend(KotestEngineLauncher.kt:56)
	at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:106)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.EventLoopImplBase.processNextEvent(EventLoop.common.kt:274)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BlockingCoroutine.joinBlocking(Builders.kt:85)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt__BuildersKt.runBlocking(Builders.kt:59)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.runBlocking(Unknown Source)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt__BuildersKt.runBlocking$default(Builders.kt:38)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.runBlocking$default(Unknown Source)
	at io.kotest.engine.KotestEngineLauncher.launch(KotestEngineLauncher.kt:55)
	at io.kotest.runner.junit.platform.KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine.execute(KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine.kt:80)
	at io.kotest.runner.junit.platform.KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine.access$execute(KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine.kt:34)
	at io.kotest.runner.junit.platform.KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine$execute$1.invokeSuspend(KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine.kt:52)
	at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:106)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.EventLoopImplBase.processNextEvent(EventLoop.common.kt:274)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BlockingCoroutine.joinBlocking(Builders.kt:85)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt__BuildersKt.runBlocking(Builders.kt:59)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.runBlocking(Unknown Source)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt__BuildersKt.runBlocking$default(Builders.kt:38)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.runBlocking$default(Unknown Source)
	at io.kotest.runner.junit.platform.KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine.execute(KotestJunitPlatformTestEngine.kt:48)
	at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineExecutionOrchestrator.execute(EngineExecutionOrchestrator.java:108)
	at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineExecutionOrchestrator.execute(EngineExecutionOrchestrator.java:88)
	at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineExecutionOrchestrator.lambda$execute$0(EngineExecutionOrchestrator.java:54)
	at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineExecutionOrchestrator.withInterceptedStreams(EngineExecutionOrchestrator.java:67)
	at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineExecutionOrchestrator.execute(EngineExecutionOrchestrator.java:52)
	at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.DefaultLauncher.execute(DefaultLauncher.java:96)
	at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.DefaultLauncher.execute(DefaultLauncher.java:75)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.junitplatform.JUnitPlatformTestClassProcessor$CollectAllTestClassesExecutor.processAllTestClasses(JUnitPlatformTestClassProcessor.java:99)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.junitplatform.JUnitPlatformTestClassProcessor$CollectAllTestClassesExecutor.access$000(JUnitPlatformTestClassProcessor.java:79)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.junitplatform.JUnitPlatformTestClassProcessor.stop(JUnitPlatformTestClassProcessor.java:75)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.SuiteTestClassProcessor.stop(SuiteTestClassProcessor.java:61)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
	at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:36)
	at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24)
	at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ContextClassLoaderDispatch.dispatch(ContextClassLoaderDispatch.java:33)
	at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ProxyDispatchAdapter$DispatchingInvocationHandler.invoke(ProxyDispatchAdapter.java:94)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy2.stop(Unknown Source)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.worker.TestWorker.stop(TestWorker.java:135)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
	at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:36)
	at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24)
	at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHubBackedObjectConnection$DispatchWrapper.dispatch(MessageHubBackedObjectConnection.java:182)
	at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHubBackedObjectConnection$DispatchWrapper.dispatch(MessageHubBackedObjectConnection.java:164)
	at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHub$Handler.run(MessageHub.java:414)
	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:64)
	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ManagedExecutorImpl$1.run(ManagedExecutorImpl.java:48)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ThreadFactoryImpl$ManagedThreadRunnable.run(ThreadFactoryImpl.java:56)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
Caused by: org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerFetchException: Can't get Docker image: RemoteDockerImage(imageName=afs_postgres:latest, imagePullPolicy=DefaultPullPolicy(), imageNameSubstitutor=org.testcontainers.utility.ImageNameSubstitutor$LogWrappedImageNameSubstitutor@10ba49b4)
	at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.getDockerImageName(GenericContainer.java:1408)
	at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.doStart(GenericContainer.java:349)
	at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.start(GenericContainer.java:322)
	at com.example.project.some.insights.util.TestDbContainer$Companion.start(TestDbContainer.kt:16)
	at io.kotest.provided.ProjectConfig.beforeAll(ProjectConfig.kt:12)
	at io.kotest.engine.config.LoadConfigFromClasspathKt$toDetectedConfig$beforeAfterAllListener$1.beforeProject(LoadConfigFromClasspath.kt:29)
	at io.kotest.core.spec.LifecycleKt.beforeProject(lifecycle.kt:51)
	... 59 more
Caused by: com.github.dockerjava.api.exception.NotFoundException: Status 404: {"message":"pull access denied for afs_postgres, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied"}

	at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.DefaultInvocationBuilder.execute(DefaultInvocationBuilder.java:241)
	at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.DefaultInvocationBuilder.lambda$executeAndStream$1(DefaultInvocationBuilder.java:269)
	... 1 more

Can please someone from the thread drop solutions if they found any? Thanks!

[angelomelonas]

I am also currently running into the same issue as @shaikhamaan above.

[cdlarue]

I am doing a maven integration test and stumbled on this issue also. It only fails when I run inside a docker container, when i run locally it works fine. Is there any known fix or workaround?