podman system prune: failed to prune image

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Issue

  • Not possible to remove images with podman.

  • podman system prune command fails with error:

    Error: failed to prune image: error reading image "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" as image: error locating item named "manifest" for image with ID "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx": file does not exist

  • podman rmi command fails with error:

    ERRO[0000] error reading image "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" as image: error locating item named "manifest" for image with ID "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx": file does not exist

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP, OCP)
    • 4.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 8.x

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