Podman desktop not able to find podman

[j-dobr]

Describe the bug

TL;DR: Podman desktop not finding podman and containers not starting after update to latest release.

Long story:

On latest release podman desktop complained about config and about podman cli missing when clicking the button to configure. podman command in terminal works, but starting previously working container from terminal failed with error Error: OCI runtime error: crun: {"msg":"error executing hook /usr/bin/nvidia-cdi-hook (exit code: 1)

In podman desktop, podman seemed to be running (green dot), only the complaint was about incomplete config. When trying to config (button in ui), it told me to install podman.

So I tried to downgrade podman desktop to 1.22.1 and now podman desktop stated that podman is missing in /run/user/1000/doc/4002021d/ and indeed, it was not there. But in terminal, podman command was still working.

I rolled back to previous Aurora release and behold, podman was present in /run/user/1000/doc/4002021d/ and everything worked.

It also still works after updating podman desktop back to 1.23.1 so it seems to me that the cause is Aurora (re)moving podman?

Is it a bug or is it some misconfiguration on my side? I'm not aware of any changes I made from default setup (besides moving storage to another location). But I'm fresh linux user so it might be something I messed up (I specifically chose Aurora not to be able to mess up).

What did you expect to happen?

I expected podman desktop to continue working as usual after update to latest aurora release.

Output of bootc status

● Booted image: ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia-open:stable
        Digest: sha256:9a80a347a2b58571e6b9cfa01ba2180e8b11d3e22c86d4e6b30183158b0db6a5 (amd64)
       Version: 43.20251119.1 (2025-11-19T16:02:19Z)

Output of groups

jdobr wheel docker incus-admin libvirt plugdev

Extra information or context

No response

[renner0e]

/usr/bin/nvidia-cdi-hook

This leads me to believe that this might be the reason:

NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit#1307

Can you rollback to an image that has this package installed. The last stable image that was based on fedora 42 should still have it.

[j-dobr]

I'm now on

Booted image: ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia-open:stable
        Digest: sha256:35086ae7811d92d014c65730dc22bf2ffcc37e7c31d7783f1d874be2b51ee081 (amd64)
       Version: 42.20251111.1 (2025-11-11T05:25:32Z)

and it works.

But I don't understand how problem with toolkit can result in missing podman executable in folder where podman desktop expects it. Or is it unrelated? (sorry if it is a dumb question)