Hi The Unix setup was correct already. No issues. If you do not setup the subuid and subgid files you get the error below. ERRO[0000] cannot find UID/GID for user b000980: No subuid ranges found for user "b000980" in /etc/subuid - check rootless mode in man pages. WARN[0000] using rootless single mapping into the namespace. This might break some images. Check /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid for adding sub*ids Error: stat /db/admin/rest/images/db2rest.tar: permission denied So all the steps were done perfectly following ( Steps 1-3 were done ) https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/rootless_tu... So far no luck getting podman to work. I ran the failing command using debug DEBU[0000] Workdir "/opt/ibm/dbrest" resolved to host path "/home/db2rest1/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/719f222c5894b8b113d90bae2d0a64dffba8b3303bc0513617e3176bf6ea6200/merged/opt/ibm/dbrest" DEBU[0000] Not modifying container 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c /etc/passwd DEBU[0000] Not modifying container 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c /etc/group DEBU[0000] /etc/system-fips does not exist on host, not mounting FIPS mode subscription DEBU[0000] Setting CGroups for container 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c to user.slice:libpod:9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c DEBU[0000] reading hooks from /usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d DEBU[0000] Created OCI spec for container 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c at /home/db2rest1/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay-containers/9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c/userdata/config.json DEBU[0000] /usr/bin/conmon messages will be logged to syslog DEBU[0000] running conmon: /usr/bin/conmon args="[--api-version 1 -c 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c -u 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c -r /usr/bin/runc -b /home/db2rest1/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay-containers/9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c/userdata -p /tmp/runtime-u1/containers/overlay-containers/9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c/userdata/pidfile -n db2rest_dsn08d --exit-dir /tmp/runtime-u1/libpod/tmp/exits --socket-dir-path /tmp/runtime-u1/libpod/tmp/socket -s -l k8s-file:/home/db2rest1/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay-containers/9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c/userdata/ctr.log --log-level debug --syslog -t --conmon-pidfile /tmp/runtime-u1/containers/overlay-containers/9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c/userdata/conmon.pid --exit-command /usr/bin/podman --exit-command-arg --root --exit-command-arg /home/db2rest1/.local/share/containers/storage --exit-command-arg --runroot --exit-command-arg /tmp/runtime-u1/containers --exit-command-arg --log-level --exit-command-arg debug --exit-command-arg --cgroup-manager --exit-command-arg systemd --exit-command-arg --tmpdir --exit-command-arg /tmp/runtime-u1/libpod/tmp --exit-command-arg --runtime --exit-command-arg runc --exit-command-arg --storage-driver --exit-command-arg overlay --exit-command-arg --storage-opt --exit-command-arg overlay.mount_program=/usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs --exit-command-arg --events-backend --exit-command-arg file --exit-command-arg --syslog --exit-command-arg container --exit-command-arg cleanup --exit-command-arg 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c]" INFO[0000] Running conmon under slice user.slice and unitName libpod-conmon-9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c.scope DEBU[0000] Received: -1 DEBU[0000] Cleaning up container 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c DEBU[0000] Tearing down network namespace at /tmp/runtime-u1/netns/cni-13220a15-ad73-aec3-3ef7-7f7a08eb50f0 for container 9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c DEBU[0000] unmounted container "9a7e3a501de24c4afb08f105817d3e443a7f381cd7441b7b861b64ad3b77677c" DEBU[0000] ExitCode msg: "time=\"2021-08-18t14:22:06-05:00\" level=error msg=\"read unix @->/run/systemd/private: read: connection reset by peer\"\ntime=\"2021-08-18t14:22:06-05:00\" level=error msg=\"container_linux.go:367: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:340: applying cgroup configuration for process caused: read unix @->/run/systemd/private: read: connection reset by peer\": oci runtime error" Error: OCI runtime error: time="2021-08-18T14:22:06-05:00" level=error msg="read unix @->/run/systemd/private: read: connection reset by peer" time="2021-08-18T14:22:06-05:00" level=error msg="container_linux.go:367: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:340: applying cgroup configuration for process caused: read unix @->/run/systemd/private: read: connection reset by peer" Kent Collins Office: 817.352.0251 | Enterprise Information Management | Cell: 817.879.7764 Data Solutions Architect/Scientist – Published Author and Conference Speaker [ibm-champion-analytics-7-year-milestone] “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Prov 18:21 [BNSF_CW_Top_100_2016] From: Collins, Kent Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 9:16 AM To: jeremy.valcourt(a)gmail.com; dwalsh(a)redhat.com Cc: podman(a)lists.podman.io Subject: Podman on Redhat So far running Podman ( non-Root ) on Redhat has been a horrible experience. It seems to take very little to break Podman. From breaking when using su or sudo to the directory length issue, these simple normal Unix everyday operations seem to be difficult for development of podman. I am trying to run a very simple API container using Podman as non-root and at this point I cannot start any containers. On top of that, workarounds found in searching for solutions also never work. For example these two work arounds do not work. export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u)/bus systemd-run --scope --user $SHELL I will admit I am not a Podman expert. My goal in using Podman over Docker should not require it. It only needs to perform basic container operations. Stop/start/rm/run/load Any help to get this working would be appreciated. ==> podman --version podman version 3.0.2-dev x /etc/*ease[1]: NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux" x x /etc/*ease[2]: VERSION="8.4 (Ootpa)" x x /etc/*ease[3]: ID="rhel" x x /etc/*ease[4]: ID_LIKE="fedora" Kent Collins Office: 817.352.0251 | Enterprise Information Management | Cell: 817.879.7764 Data Solutions Architect/Scientist – Published Author and Conference Speaker [ibm-champion-analytics-7-year-milestone] “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Prov 18:21 [BNSF_CW_Top_100_2016]