Unable to launch published image

Hey,

I tried backing up an image on a remote using image publish remote:instance

Now I am trying to launch t, but it won’t start:

root@cthulhu ~ [1]# incus info --show-log forge2
Name: forge2
Description:
Status: STOPPED
Type: container
Architecture: x86_64
Created: 2026/01/08 16:04 CET
Last Used: 1970/01/01 01:00 CET

Log:

lxc forge2 20260108150438.762 ERROR utils - ../src/lxc/utils.c:run_buffer:571 - Script exited with status 1
lxc forge2 20260108150438.762 ERROR start - ../src/lxc/start.c:lxc_init:845 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container “forge2”
lxc forge2 20260108150438.762 ERROR start - ../src/lxc/start.c:__lxc_start:2039 - Failed to initialize container “forge2”
lxc forge2 20260108150439.341 ERROR lxccontainer - ../src/lxc/lxccontainer.c:wait_on_daemonized_start:824 - No such file or directory - Failed to receive the container state

root@cthulhu ~# incus image info 12b8d2ad9935
Fingerprint: 12b8d2ad993534fcee6d911e7d74d29eeb9c458f168a2f97632c9e96efdf977e
Size: 16305.53MiB
Architecture: x86_64
Type: container
Public: no
Timestamps:
    Created: 2025/12/17 12:35 CET
    Uploaded: 2026/01/08 13:11 CET
    Expires: 2025/08/06 03:04 CEST
    Last used: 2026/01/08 16:04 CET
Properties:
    os: nixos
    release: 25.05
    serial: 20250707_01:01
    variant: default
    architecture: x86_64
    description: Nixos 25.05 x86_64 (20250707_01:01)
    name: nixos-25.05-x86_64-default-20250707_01:01
Aliases:
Cached: yes
Auto update: disabled
Profiles:
    - default

It appears to launch on my local machine, but not the remote

Hmm, maybe run incus monitor --pretty while running incus start to see if that reports anything useful.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Actually I ended up re-uploading the image, and that fixed the issue. It must’ve been partially extracted or something?