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Podman on Mac throws error when running podman machine init

Installed podman using brew (brew install podman) Trying to start the VM using podman machine init but receiving the following error:

Extracting compressed file
Error: cannot overwrite connection

Info:

$ podman machine ls
NAME        VM TYPE     CREATED     LAST UP     CPUS        MEMORY      DISK SIZE```

$ brew info podman
podman: stable 4.1.0 (bottled), HEAD
Tool for managing OCI containers and pods
https://podman.io/
/usr/local/Cellar/podman/4.1.0 (174 files, 48.2MB) *
  Poured from bottle on 2022-06-09 at 15:49:37
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/podman.rb
License: Apache-2.0
==> Dependencies
Build: go ✘, go-md2man ✘
Required: qemu ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
zsh completions have been installed to:
  /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
==> Analytics
install: 19,856 (30 days), 60,723 (90 days), 152,955 (365 days)
install-on-request: 19,746 (30 days), 60,606 (90 days), 152,824 (365 days)
build-error: 1 (30 days)

sw_vers
ProductName:    macOS
ProductVersion: 11.6.6
BuildVersion:   20G624

I have uninstalled and reinstalled using brew, does not change. Had docker on machine, uninstalled it completely, restarted my machine and tried again reinstalling podman with brew. The problem remains.

Any pointers, instructions how to resolve it appreciated greatly. Thank you.

Solution

  • Resolved the issue by following these steps:

    1. Removed podman brew uninstall podman
    2. Removed containers files from the following directories:
    rm -rf ~/.config/containers/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/containers
    1. Reinstalled podman using brew brew install podman
    2. Init the podman machine and start it.