I'm curious every post on podman had a very positive thread. We were kinda forced to use podman and while we enjoy rootless containers conceptually they have caused us a lot of issues. After every restart of a node when a user had pods running, said user will not be able to use podman. Often times, bugs can only be solved by completely resetting your user. It's also not as straightforward to configure as the documentatiom let's on.
Overall I don't have an opinion on the software, it's just confusing to me how much praise it receives?
Podman does rely on a lot of files in the /tmp/run-... directory and this has caused us some similar issues. There was some info somewhere on how to change this to somewhere more suitable.
Sorry it's not too helpful, but might be some clues for you.
Presumably there is a config file somewhere that is causing issues. Resetting the user might be a way of saying rm -rf /home/someuser. That said, I've never used podman and this is the first that I've heard of it.
Overall I don't have an opinion on the software, it's just confusing to me how much praise it receives?