Podman gets shutdown when it starts

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Hello Rocky Linux forums,

I am having issues with starting up Podman service

I am unaware of when this issue accrued exactly, because I didn’t use Podman in any significant way until now when I need it. I didn’t receive any alerts about Podman service stopping to work so I don’t know on when it stopped working.

I don’t know if it is an update that caused this (i update regularly)

I even tried reinstalling and even that didn’t work

here is the journalctl -u log of it starting up

Feb 16 22:38:40 RockyLinux-Server systemd[1]: Starting Podman API Service...
Feb 16 22:38:40 RockyLinux-Server systemd[1]: Started Podman API Service.
Feb 16 22:38:40 RockyLinux-Server podman[48947]: time="2025-02-16T22:38:40+01:00" level=info msg="/usr/bin/podman filtering at log level info"
Feb 16 22:38:40 RockyLinux-Server podman[48947]: time="2025-02-16T22:38:40+01:00" level=info msg="Using sqlite as database backend"
Feb 16 22:38:40 RockyLinux-Server podman[48947]: time="2025-02-16T22:38:40+01:00" level=info msg="Not using native diff for overlay, this may cause degraded performance for bu>
Feb 16 22:38:40 RockyLinux-Server podman[48947]: time="2025-02-16T22:38:40+01:00" level=info msg="Setting parallel job count to 13"
Feb 16 22:38:40 RockyLinux-Server podman[48947]: time="2025-02-16T22:38:40+01:00" level=info msg="Using systemd socket activation to determine API endpoint"
Feb 16 22:38:40 RockyLinux-Server podman[48947]: time="2025-02-16T22:38:40+01:00" level=info msg="API service listening on \"/run/podman/podman.sock\". URI: \"/run/podman/podm>
Feb 16 22:38:45 RockyLinux-Server podman[48947]: time="2025-02-16T22:38:45+01:00" level=info msg="Received shutdown.Stop(), terminating!" PID=48947
Feb 16 22:38:45 RockyLinux-Server systemd[1]: podman.service: Deactivated successfully.
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Podman is using systemd’s socket activation, so you don’t explicitly “start the service” - instead, the service is started by systemd when it detects a connection to the systemd-managed socket associated with the service.

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The moment you replied to my thread podman on cockpit and podman in general started working. I don’t know what fixed it i did nothing

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