Why podman containers fails to start with the error message "OCI runtime error: crun: unknown version specified" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 ?

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Issue

  • Why podman containers fails to start with the error message "OCI runtime error: crun: unknown version specified" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 ?
[root@localhost ~]# podman run busybox:latest
Resolved "busybox" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/busybox:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 9c0abc9c5bd3 done   |
Copying config af47096251 done   |
Writing manifest to image destination
Error: OCI runtime error: crun: unknown version specified
  • Podman containers fails to start after applying security patch for podman RHSA-2025:0922

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • crun-1.8.1-1.el9.x86_64

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