Podman Desktop 1.8.0 is broken since updating to Podman 5.0.0 via winget

[kachick]

Cannot recreate podman machines

Error: Command execution failed with exit code 125 Command execution failed with exit code 125 Error: unable to load machine config file: "json: cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field MachineConfig.ImagePath of type define.VMFile"

containers/podman#22144
microsoft/winget-pkgs#145266

[kachick]

uninstall and re-install didn't fix 🤔

[kachick]

Similar podman-desktop/podman-desktop#6495

[kachick]

Same error even after wsl --unregister podman-machine-default

[kachick]

containers/podman#22144 (comment)

cd ${Env:USERPROFILE}\.config\containers\podman\machine\wsl\

Remove-Item .\podman-machine-*

After this, I can create podman-machine

[alisonatwork]

Was it sufficient to delete the machines using WSL and then just remove the matching JSON files from .config, or was there some other dangling data that needed to be cleaned?

[kachick]

For now and for me, removing the json and lock file looks like the crucial part. Now it seems to work.

But first I uninstalled podman, podman desktop and podman-machine. I don't know which step I could skip 🤔.

[alisonatwork]

Thanks, I'll try a quick experiment on my home computer right now before getting into work tomorrow, where this would cause a much bigger headache...

[kachick]

Your research and report containers/podman#22144 (comment) helped me a lot, thank you!

[xaocon]

Was it sufficient to delete the machines using WSL and then just remove the matching JSON files from .config, or was there some other dangling data that needed to be cleaned?

I ran into the same problem and deleting the config files and wsl machine was enough. I did it while podman desktop was not running if that helps any.