could not find image config
Author: rickardpCreated May 15, 2023Updated Apr 14, 2026
Labelsbugoci-interop
When running Dive on "any" image, I get could not find image config. Same for every image I tried (with or without SHA hashes), e.g
$ dive ubuntu:sha256:ca5534a51dd04bbcebe9b23ba05f389466cf0c190f1f8f182d7eea92a9671d00
Image Source: docker://ubuntu:sha256:ca5534a51dd04bbcebe9b23ba05f389466cf0c190f1f8f182d7eea92a9671d00
Fetching image... (this can take a while for large images)
Handler not available locally. Trying to pull 'ubuntu:sha256:ca5534a51dd04bbcebe9b23ba05f389466cf0c190f1f8f182d7eea92a9671d00'...
invalid reference format
cannot fetch image
exit status 1
$ dive alpine:latest
Image Source: docker://alpine:latest
Fetching image... (this can take a while for large images)
Handler not available locally. Trying to pull 'alpine:latest'...
02bb6f428431: Download complete
30e6d35703c5: Download complete
44dd6f223004: Download complete
08409d417260: Download complete
docker.io/library/alpine:latest
cannot fetch image
could not find image configDocker pull and docker run works on images tried.
$ dive -v
dive 0.10.0
$ docker -v
Docker version 23.0.5, build bc4487a
$ uname -a
Darwin xxx 22.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.4.0: Mon Mar 6 20:59:28 PST 2023; root:xnu-8796.101.5~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64Source: wagoodman/dive