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@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.