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@sgaist sgaist commented Sep 25, 2025

This patch restores the original behavior that emitted a warning if OS detection failed but would try to shell in anyway.

The detection can fail for multiple reasons:

  • Label not applied to pod
  • Label not readable (e.g. nodes cannot be listed by normal users on OpenShift)

The new version of the warning also states that it assumes linux. Note that this is not a typo, it is to be consistent with how it is written in Go's supported platform list. It can be obtained using go tool dist list.

Fixes #3583

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goya commented Sep 27, 2025

this fixes #3583 - confirmed this is the fix. This is not fixed in v0.50.13

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goya commented Sep 29, 2025

@sgaist im still experiencing this issue. do you also find the new release did not include a fix for this issue?

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sgaist commented Sep 29, 2025

@sgaist im still experiencing this issue. do you also find the new release did not include a fix for this issue?

From a quick look at the default branch, it seems that has indeed not changed.

This patch restores the original behavior that emitted
a warning if OS detection failed. The detection can fail
for multiple reasons:
- Label not applied to pod
- Label not readable (e.g. nodes cannot be listed by normal
  users on OpenShift)
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derailed commented Oct 5, 2025

Thanks for the heads up! I think this is a dup of #3600

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sgaist commented Oct 5, 2025

@derailed in fact no, it was #3600 that was a dup of this one.

@sgaist sgaist deleted the k9s-3583/relax-shellIn-os-detection-error-handling branch October 5, 2025 15:27
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| [derailed/k9s](https://github.com/derailed/k9s) | patch | `v0.50.15` -> `v0.50.16` |

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- [#&#8203;3600](derailed/k9s#3600) fix(shell): set linux when OS detection fails
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Cannot open shell to pods without node read access as of 0.50.12

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