podman fails to find netavark

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • podman 4+

Issue

  • When changing network backend from cni to netavark, podman throws the following error,
Raw
# podman ps
Error: could not find "netavark" in one of [/usr/local/libexec/podman /usr/local/lib/podman /usr/libexec/podman /usr/lib/podman].  To resolve this error, set the helper_binaries_dir key in the `[engine]` section of containers.conf to the directory containing your helper binaries.

Resolution

Raw
# dnf install podman-plugins netavark -y
  • Retry now and there shouldn't be any errors,
Raw
# podman info | grep networkBackend
  networkBackend: netavark

Root Cause

  • network_backend was changed to "netavark" and host is unable to recognize this option since the package is not installed

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