openwhisk - unable to install and use /whisk.system/alarms on openwhisk locally set up on ubuntu

Question

I am seeing the following error:

bin/wsk package get --summary /whisk.system/alarms --insecure error: Unable to get package 'alarms': The supplied authentication is not authorized to access this resource. (code 7320)

I am using the guest authentication

(I have downloaded the openwhisk source on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine and installed it using ./gradlew distDocker).

Other features are working: action, triggers, rules, etc.

Tried downloading /whisk.system/alarms from github, and ran installCatalog.sh - it gave EOF for a POST request:

~/openwhisk-package-alarms$ ./installCatalog.sh $AUTH_KEY $API_HOST $API_HOST $API_PORT $API_HOST error: Package update failed: Put https://172.17.0.1:5984/api/v1/namespaces/_/packages/alarms?overwrite=true: EOF techie@serverless02:~/openwhisk-package-alarms$