Questions tagged [podman]
Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode.
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How to disable autostarting of conmon?
On Debian13 with KDE after upgrading from Debian12, I see that conmon autostarted and is listening on some port by using sudo lsof -i. I don't want anything to autostart that I didn't configure to do ...
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How to prevent all docker and podman containers from autostarting?
I think for docker it's
docker ps -a to see all containers
docker inspect containername | grep -A 3 RestartPolicy
docker stop containername
docker update --restart=no containername
Is there a ...
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why is not podman showing my containers
Why is podman not showing my local containers, is it because it is not started with podman?
I'm forced to use podman due to openshift, ubuntu 24.04LTS:
$ podman ps --all
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PostgreSQL 15 container with data directory mounted as host bind mount
I'm trying to create PostgreSQL container with bind mounted host directory in it as the PostgreSQL data directory. Doing it according to official PostgreSQL docker image documentation and Example from ...
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No LAN or WAN access from Podman container with manually created network
I migrated a few Podman containers through these changes:
Host: Debian 12 -> Debian 13
Podman exec: podman run -> quadlet units
Network config: NetworkManager -> /etc/network/interfaces (...
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LoadCredential does not seem to work when running systemd in a container
I have been trying to run systemd in a container to test out an existing project before it gets deployed to hardware. systemd seems to work, but LoadCredential doesn't, even though it works on the ...
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Why mount a directory to itself. mark it make-rshared and mount option inside a container
I’m using BTRFS snapshots for my backups with Restic, and with the help of GenAI I created a script to automate the process. I take snapshots of a subvolume called home, which contains three ...
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podman ps takes a long time (5+ minutes) to detect a killed container & its 'conmon' OCI runtime wrapper, can it be tweaked to be more responsive?
I am running podman version 5.4.0 on Rocky Linux 9.6.
I notice that when a container is killed along with its 'conmon' OCI runtime wrapper, say by issuing a kill -9, the podman ps command does not ...
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On Debian, XFS, I can edit a file of another user with permissions 644 without ACL
today to my surprise I have noticed that I may delete a file that was created by a user with UID 100024 while being logged to my normal user (UID 1000) shell. The UID 100024 is a subuid, it is how the ...
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How to control podman's images with git?
We are using podman's containers for the project.
The issue, we have is what while working on different branches of the project we need slightly different containers. So each git branch has its own ...
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Can't use distrobox due to permission error. Podman behaves weirdly
Prerequisites
Alpine Linux Edge
~ $ podman --version
podman version 5.5.2
~ $ distrobox --version
distrobox: 1.8.1.2
~ $ mount|grep ^cgroup|awk '{print $1}'|uniq
cgroup2
I followed the steps in ...
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COPY/ADD from host absolute path in podman/dockerfile
Dockerfile documentation states that the <src> argument of COPY and ADD are relative to the context (location of Dockerfile).
If I have third party dependencies located in /usr/local or /opt/ it ...
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Bridging containers to external VLAN
I have a physical network with several VLANs. One of my computers (my main workstation) is connected to two different VLANs on this network, one tagged, the other not.
I have successfully set this ...
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Linux: Podman container Alpine + Wayland + xRDP multiuser + any window compositor
Does there is any possibility to have this combination?
Podman container with:
Alpine Linux
Wayland
xRDP with multiuser support
any window compositor
I have found there are some limitation of ...
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In Podman, how to disable "Executing external compose provider" message when using "podman compose"?
I installed Podman Desktop app v. 1.18.1 on macOS Sequoia.
If I execute:
podman compose version
… I get this on the console:
>>>> Executing external compose provider "/usr/local/bin/...
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