# Podman gets shutdown when it starts

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/podman-gets-shutdown-when-it-starts/17576>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Tags:** rocky-linux-9\
**Created:** [February 16, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/podman-gets-shutdown-when-it-starts/17576 "2025-02-16T21:51:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![6VoltsTo9Volts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/6voltsto9volts/32/5154_2.png) [@6VoltsTo9Volts](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/6VoltsTo9Volts)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/podman-gets-shutdown-when-it-starts/17576/1 "2025-02-16T21:51:29Z")

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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

```auto
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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**Author:** ![anthyve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@anthyve](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/anthyve)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/podman-gets-shutdown-when-it-starts/17576/2 "2025-02-17T10:23:20Z")

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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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**Author:** ![6VoltsTo9Volts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/6voltsto9volts/32/5154_2.png) [@6VoltsTo9Volts](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/6VoltsTo9Volts)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/podman-gets-shutdown-when-it-starts/17576/3 "2025-02-17T20:22:06Z")

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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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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/podman-gets-shutdown-when-it-starts/17576/4 "2025-04-18T20:22:22Z")

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