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manifest unknown: manifest unknown

ID: docker/docker-manifest-unknown

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88%Fix Rate
90%Confidence
50Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

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Root Cause

The specified image tag or digest does not exist in the registry. The image may have been deleted, the tag misspelled, or the platform architecture not available.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Verify the exact image name, tag, and registry URL 
    Check the registry web UI or use: docker manifest inspect <image>:<tag> to confirm the manifest exists

    Sources: https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/manifest/inspect/

  2. 85% success Use a specific digest instead of a mutable tag 
    docker pull image@sha256:<digest> — ensures you get the exact image that was verified to exist

    Sources: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/pull/

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Pulling with --platform flag when the image simply does not exist for that architecture 80% fail

    If the image maintainer never published an arm64 variant, no platform flag will make it appear

  2. Clearing local Docker cache hoping it will fix the pull 85% fail

    The issue is server-side; the manifest genuinely does not exist in the registry

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