Podman / Podman Docker not working

[GregJohnStewart]

Hey guys, have a fairly clean install of Fedora, and have podman and podman-docker installed. I can run docker ps and get the expected result.

However, I get this error when trying to run my quarkus app in dev mode (even after reboot):

docker-machine executable was not found on PATH ([/home/gstewart/.local/bin, /home/gstewart/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /home/gstewart/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts])
2023-11-06 13:38:24,715 ERROR [org.tes.doc.DockerClientProviderStrategy] (build-20) Could not find a valid Docker environment. Please check configuration. Attempted configurations were:
	UnixSocketClientProviderStrategy: failed with exception InvalidConfigurationException (Could not find unix domain socket). Root cause AccessDeniedException (/var/run/docker.sock)
	DockerDesktopClientProviderStrategy: failed with exception NullPointerException (Cannot invoke "java.nio.file.Path.toString()" because the return value of "org.testcontainers.dockerclient.DockerDesktopClientProviderStrategy.getSocketPath()" is null)As no valid configuration was found, execution cannot continue.

Any ideas?

[elsonkhoza]

@GregJohnStewart Did you find a solution?

[aqibbutt]

Hi @GregJohnStewart please share the solution if you were able to resolve this problem.

[MrMYHuang]

I met the same issue and fixed it. The issue could be related to changing podman run by root to user.

First, see this of your log:

Root cause AccessDeniedException (/var/run/docker.sock)

Let's check it:

sudo -l ls /var/run/docker.sock

You might get this:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 31 18:41 /var/run/docker.sock -> /run/podman/podman.sock

But I have set my podman to run with user permission:

systemctl --user enable podman.socket --now

and /run/podman/podman.sock doesn't exist.

Finally, I fix the broken link by this:

sudo ln -s $(podman info --format '{{.Host.RemoteSocket.Path}}') /var/run/docker.sock