With no containers present trying to remove images with podman fails with "image used by <container id>: image is in use by a container: consider listing external containers and force-removing image"

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • When trying to remove a container image it fails stating the image is in use even though podman shows no containers

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • podman - all versions
  • buildah - all versions

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