activate command not working as intended

[lesurJ]

Hello,

I am trying to setup the environment to use Isaac ROS with the Quick Start Guide. I thus followed the instructions here and successfully installed isaac-ros-cli and initialized docker with sudo isaac-ros init docker.

However, running the isaac-ros activate command is failing. Here is the log:

isaac-ros activate
/home/jean/isaacros/ros2_ws
Logged in to nvcr.io/nvidia/isaac/ros. Using this for cache.
['noble', 'ros2_jazzy']
Dockerfile created: image_key = noble
Dockerfile created: image_key = ros2_jazzy
noble-ros2_jazzy_d3e84470d576702a380478a513fb3fc6-amd64: Pulling from nvidia/isaac/ros
Digest: sha256:82cb5792395aaa0834dc0d02878b3e90d89e215ee0677539e06df0336086ad6e
Status: Image is up to date for nvcr.io/nvidia/isaac/ros:noble-ros2_jazzy_d3e84470d576702a380478a513fb3fc6-amd64
nvcr.io/nvidia/isaac/ros:noble-ros2_jazzy_d3e84470d576702a380478a513fb3fc6-amd64
Using image: nvcr.io/nvidia/isaac/ros:noble-ros2_jazzy_d3e84470d576702a380478a513fb3fc6-amd64
Using additional Docker run arguments from ['/etc/isaac-ros-cli/.isaac_ros_dev-dockerargs']
['-v /home/jean/.ssh:/home/admin/.ssh:ro', '-v /home/jean/.aws:/home/admin/.aws:ro', '-v /home/jean/.cache:/home/admin/.cache', '-v /home/jean/.config:/home/admin/.config', '-v /home/jean/.gitconfig:/home/admin/.gitconfig', '-v /home/jean/.bash_history:/home/admin/.bash_history']
Running isaac_ros_dev_container
Creating non-root container 'admin' for host user uid=1000:gid=1000
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/admin/.bashrc': Read-only file system
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/admin/.profile': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of '/home/admin/.bashrc': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of '/home/admin/.profile': Read-only file system
udev: unrecognized service
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

Somehow, this command tries to switch my user to admin but there is no such user on my host.

Any hint on how to handle this?

[jaiveersinghNV]

Thanks for sharing this log snippet. While the error messages may look scary, these can be safely ignored. We attempt to mount several dotfiles if they exist, so that you can optionally customize your development environment.

Are you sure the container fails to start? In correct operation, IRCLI in the docker mode should get you inside a running Docker container with user admin.

The final command prompt (after all of those log messages) should look something like this:

admin@jaiveers-laptop:/workspaces/isaac_ros-dev$

Do you see that prompt? If so, you should be good to continue using IRCLI. If not, please send us more logs and details so we can figure out why your instance is crashing.