Why ceph pods fails to start with the error " Error: error creating container storage: the container name "ceph-osd-X" is already in use in ?

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Issue

  • Why ceph pods fails to start with the error " Error: error creating container storage: the container name "ceph-osd-X" is already in use in ?
 Error: error creating container storage: the container name "ceph-osd-1" is already in use by "1f52fd151ba314618e91113d485617b65eb8d80717574ffd547b59efee289ea1". 
 You have to remove that container to be able to reuse that name.: that name is already in use

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • podman-1.6.4-11.module+el8.2.0+6368+cf16aa14.x86_64

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