Control: reopen -1 On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 16:23, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:33 AM Shengjing Zhu <z...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:47:20AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> > Control: reassign -1 src:libpod 3.0.0+dfsg1-2 >> > >> > On Ma, 23 feb 21, 14:26:12, Andrej Shadura wrote: >> > > Package: src:podman >> > > Version: 3.0.0+dfsg1-2 >> > > Severity: important >> > > >> > > Dear Maintainer, >> > > >> > > I get an error message when I try to run podman: >> > > >> > > Error: Cannot connect to the Podman socket, make sure there is a Podman >> > > REST API service running.: >> > > cannot find newuidmap: exec: "newuidmap": executable file not found in >> > > $PATH >> > > >> > > Installing package rootlesskit fixes the issue. >> >> The errors look like you don't have "newuidmap" binary, instead of >> "rootlesskit". >> For newuidmap, it's provided by uidmap, which is in podman's Recommends. > > Shengjing is correct, podman works on my laptop just fine without > rootlesskit. > The uidmap package is required for running 'rootless' podman, podman itself > should work just fine without it in 'rootful' mode.
I may be wrong about the package needed to make it work but it does *not* in fact work at all without it. It just prints the error message and exits. I’m not sure it’s fair to close the issue without investigating further. -- Cheers, Andrej
