FYI. This is a ctr only bug in 1.1. I don't think anything else is affected.

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@crosbymichael I reported the bug because it was the easiest way to replicate it.

I tried running a small code snippet with your changes but I get this

err: type with url containerd.events.ContainerCreate: not found

func main() {
     	c, err := containerd.New(endpoint)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	for {
		eventsCh, errCh := c.EventService().Subscribe(ctx.Background(), `topic~="/containers/create"`)
		err := listenEvents(eventsCh, errCh)
		fmt.Printf("err: %s\n", err)
	}
}

func listenEvents(eventsCh <-chan *events.Envelope, errCh <-chan error) error {
	open := true
	for open {
		var e *events.Envelope
		select {
		case e, open = <-eventsCh:
		case err := <-errCh:
			return err
		}

		var out []byte
		if e.Event != nil {
			v, err := typeurl.UnmarshalAny(e.Event)
			if err != nil {
				return err
			}
			out, err = json.Marshal(v)
			if err != nil {
				return err
			}
		}

		if _, err := fmt.Println(
			e.Timestamp,
			e.Namespace,
			e.Topic,
			string(out),
		); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}
	return nil
}

@aanm i tried your snipped and it works for me. That error you are getting now is unrelated to this change and maybe a mismatch of versions on your system when you are compiling a 1.1 containerd and and older client, or vise versa, it's hard to tell.

@crosbymichael I noticed I fixed this is a slightly different way when updating the code for moby https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/36895/files

The Subscribe function never actually closes the event channel, just the err channel. In that case I am not just ignoring a nil event and going back to the select, waiting for the error channel to signal completion.

@dmcgowan ok, i'll update it tomorrow morning

LGTM. This is my mistake...

@dmcgowan updated to handle close from the error chan.