openshell sandbox create --from <Dockerfile> fails with timeout when the resulting image is large (e.g., 2.5 GB).

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Agent Diagnostic

Issue: openshell sandbox create --from fails with timeout when the resulting image is large (e.g., 2.5 GB).

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Root Cause

The upload timeout is fixed at 120 seconds — the bollard library's default for Docker::connect_with_local_defaults(). This timeout applies to the entire HTTP PUT
request that uploads the image tar into the gateway container.

For a 2.5 GB image, even over a local Unix socket, the gateway container needs to receive the data and write it to its overlay filesystem. On a loaded system or slow
storage, 120 seconds is not enough.

Two code paths are affected:

• crates/openshell-bootstrap/src/build.rs:50 — sandbox create --from path: builds image locally, pushes into gateway
• crates/openshell-bootstrap/src/lib.rs:472 — OPENSHELL_PUSH_IMAGES dev workflow: pushes pre-built images into gateway

By contrast, the SSH Docker client in docker.rs:250 already uses a 600-second timeout, indicating the upload timeout problem was known for the remote case but the
local case was overlooked.

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Proposed Fix

Bollard 0.20 provides Docker::connect_with_defaults() which auto-detects DOCKER_HOST and supports a .with_timeout() builder. Replace connect_with_local_defaults()
with this at both callsites. No new helpers needed.

build.rs:50:
// Before
let local_docker = Docker::connect_with_local_defaults()
.into_diagnostic()
.wrap_err("failed to connect to local Docker daemon")?;

// After
let local_docker = Docker::connect_with_defaults()
.into_diagnostic()
.wrap_err("failed to connect to local Docker daemon")?
.with_timeout(std::time::Duration::from_secs(3600));

lib.rs:472:
// Before
let local_docker = Docker::connect_with_local_defaults().into_diagnostic()?;

// After
let local_docker = Docker::connect_with_defaults()
.into_diagnostic()?
.with_timeout(std::time::Duration::from_secs(3600));

Side benefit: connect_with_defaults() also correctly respects DOCKER_HOST for unix://, tcp://, and http:// schemes, which connect_with_local_defaults() silently
ignores.

Scope: 2 files, ~6 lines changed. No API surface changes. No protocol changes. Backwards compatible.

Description

Original issue reported in NVIDIA/NemoClaw:
NVIDIA/NemoClaw#427

Issue: openshell sandbox create --from fails with timeout when the resulting image is large (e.g., 2.5 GB).

It seems the the upload timeout is fixed at 120 seconds, the bollard library's default for Docker::connect_with_local_defaults(). This timeout applies to the entire HTTP PUT request that uploads the image tar into the gateway container.

Reproduction Steps

Check the original issue : NVIDIA/NemoClaw#427

Environment

• OS: Ubuntu
• openshell 0.0.10
• nemoclaw 0.1.0

Check more details here: NVIDIA/NemoClaw#427

Logs

Agent-First Checklist

• I pointed my agent at the repo and had it investigate this issue
• I loaded relevant skills (e.g., debug-openshell-cluster, debug-inference, openshell-cli)
• My agent could not resolve this — the diagnostic above explains why