[Podman] Re: root-less containers look for root-full paths?
Your system strorage.conf most likely has an entry for runroot, you'll need to comment
it out.
On July 9, 2026 5:17:30 PM UTC, lejeczek via Podman <podman(a)lists.podman.io> wrote:
>Hi gays.
>
>I've recently updated rpm packages on my c10 and there were, amongst many more,
these:
>
>crun-1.28-1.el10.x86_64 Wed 01 Jul 2026 08:24:45 CEST
>containers-common-6.0-2.el10.noarch Wed 08 Jul 2026 09:58:33 CEST
>containers-common-extra-6.0-2.el10.noarch Wed 08 Jul 2026 09:58:33 CEST
>systemd-container-257-28.el10.x86_64 Wed 08 Jul 2026 09:58:35 CEST
>podman-6.0.0-1.el10.x86_64
>
>I mention it for I cannot think of any other reason why on all my systems, (suddenly)
rootless users (via IPA backend) now when I do:
>
>-> $ ssh appownia@localhost
>Last login: Thu Jul 9 19:07:24 2026 from ::1
>
>WARN[0000] RunRoot is pointing to a path (/run/containers/storage) which is not
writable. Most likely podman will fail.: permission denied
>Error: cannot evaluate symlinks on DB run root path
"/run/containers/storage": lstat /run/containers/storage: permission denied
>
>Nothing of _podman_ toolbox cmd seems to work, eg.:
>-> $ podman system reset -f
>fails
>
>Anybody sees this/similar issue, even if not on Centos?
>
>many thanks, L.