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sincomil

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Registered: 2018-02-13

Posts: 108

[SOLVED] Podman in rootless mode does not start any conatiner.

Few years ago I remember that my podman was able to run containers in rootless mode without any problems. Now it runs fine with sudo, but can not start containers with unprivileged user.

$ podman run --rm -it debian:latest /bin/bash
Resolved "debian" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/00-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/debian:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob ca4e5d672725 done   |
Copying config 2e5b8d3ef3 done   |
Writing manifest to image destination
Error: OCI runtime error: crun: sd-bus call: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1: Input/output error

with sudo it is ok:

sudo podman run --rm -it debian:latest /bin/bash
Resolved "debian" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/00-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/debian:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob ca4e5d672725 done   |
Copying config 2e5b8d3ef3 done   |
Writing manifest to image destination
root@e5ba37380861:/#
exit

Can't figure out what causes this. Tried to reinstall podman and all related packages but have no luck with problem.

$ cat /etc/subuid
user:260000:65537
$ cat /etc/subgid
user:260000:65537
$ env |grep DBUS
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/tmp/dbus-McCMN0UrUN,guid=d5da92c77e5b0474209ee13366b0e305

Last edited by sincomil (2024-08-05 17:04:01)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,875

Re: [SOLVED] Podman in rootless mode does not start any conatiner.

Your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS should not be looking like that. How are you logging in and how and which session are you starting? If you start your env with dbus-launch or dbus-run-session you probably don't want to do that.

Last edited by V1del (2024-08-05 16:39:27)

sincomil

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Registered: 2018-02-13

Posts: 108

Re: [SOLVED] Podman in rootless mode does not start any conatiner.

I'm on Plasma(wayland) session. Running commands in terminal

This solved my problem

export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=
podman run --rm -it debian:latest /bin/bash
root@2719b7d67551:/#

Last edited by sincomil (2024-08-05 16:59:18)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,875

Re: [SOLVED] Podman in rootless mode does not start any conatiner.

You're starting Plasma how? A "normal" and "correct" DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS looks like DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus -- were the 1000 depends on your uid