Sandboxed commands print "Failed to create stream fd" on Ubuntu 26.04
On Ubuntu 26.04, Codex sandboxed command execution succeeds but prints repeated
systemd-cat/journald errors before command output:
Failed to create stream fd: Operation not permitted
Failed to create stream fd: Operation not permitted
Failed to create stream fd: Operation not permitted
Environment
- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS resolute
- bubblewrap 0.11.1-1
- apparmor 5.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu7
/etc/apparmor.d/bwrap-userns-restrictis present and owned by theapparmorpackageaa-statusshowsbwrapandunpriv_bwraploaded in enforce mode
Reproduction
Run a simple sandboxed command through Codex, for example from /tmp or /home/user:
true
The command exits successfully, but stderr contains the repeated warning.
A more direct test shows the likely source:
systemd-cat true
Inside the Codex sandbox this fails with:
Failed to create stream fd: Operation not permitted
Outside the Codex sandbox, systemd-cat true succeeds.
Also observed:
bwrap --ro-bind / / true
This succeeds outside the Codex sandbox. Running nested bwrap inside the Codex sandbox fails, which may be expected due to confinement/no_new_privs.
Expected Behavior
Successful sandboxed commands should not emit journald/systemd-cat stream setup
errors. If journald stream setup is unavailable inside the sandbox, Codex should
avoid that path, make it optional, or silently fall back.
Actual Behavior
Every successful sandboxed command prints the warning three times before command
output. This makes command output noisy and may confuse tooling that consumes
stderr.
Notes
This does not appear to be the old Ubuntu 24.04 missing AppArmor profile issue.
On Ubuntu 26.04 the bwrap-userns-restrict profile is already shipped at/etc/apparmor.d/bwrap-userns-restrict by the base apparmor package, andaa-status reports the relevant profiles as loaded.
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