Problem when updating podman from 4.4.1 to 4.4.4 on windows 11

[angelotrivelli]

A while ago I had installed podman version 4.4.1 on my windows 11 PC. It worked fine.

Today, however, I noticed that podman 4.4.4 is the current version. I went to the github releases page and downloaded and ran the msi for version 4.4.4.

That seemed to be OK. I rebooted the whole machine and then launched powershell...

PowerShell 7.3.3
PS C:\Users\angelo> podman --version
podman.exe version 4.4.4

OK, good, I did indeed update to 4.4.4. And just checking my wsl vm's, podman-machine-default is stopped, as expected after a reboot:

PS C:\Users\angelo> wsl -l -v --all
  NAME                      STATE           VERSION
* Ubuntu                    Stopped         2
  podman-machine-default    Stopped         2

At this point, I figured, maybe I need to init the machine? It won't hurt, right?

PS C:\Users\angelo> podman machine init
Error: podman-machine-default: VM already exists

Well I did have 4.4.1 running before. So yeah, I suppose the VM does already exist and perhaps the msi installer merely updated it? So now I start the machine:

PS C:\Users\angelo> podman machine start
Starting machine "podman-machine-default"

This machine is currently configured in rootless mode. If your containers
require root permissions (e.g. ports < 1024), or if you run into compatibility
issues with non-podman clients, you can switch using the following command:

        podman machine set --rootful

API forwarding listening on: npipe:////./pipe/docker_engine

Docker API clients default to this address. You do not need to set DOCKER_HOST.
Machine **podman-machine-default** started successfully

... so far so good, that looks normal.
But now when I go into the podman-machine-default's shell and check the version:

You will be automatically entered into a nested process namespace where
systemd is running. If you need to access the parent namespace, hit ctrl-d
or type exit. This also means to log out you need to exit twice.

[user@thelaptop ~]$ podman --version
podman version 4.4.1

That's not good!

I get version 4.4.4 when I run podman --version in powershell and version 4.4.1 when I run podman --version on the podman-machine-default VM.

Perhaps "it works", but it makes me super uncomfortable. There doesn't seem to be info on updating podman in the installation instructions. Did I miss something? Do have to totally uninstall podman and then re-install?

[Luap99]

see #17983
This is expected as the image is just a normal fedora version, you need to wait until the update lands in fedora.

[angelotrivelli]

Doing a "podman machine rm" and then "podman machine init" fixed the problem.

I was just confused about what a podman update would actually do.