containers / containers/toolbox

cannot podman pull image inside toolbox

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Description

**Describe the bug**
(Well this may be expected/known, but I thought I would ask here anyway.)

It does not seem possible to `podman pull` images from inside a toolbox.

**Steps how to reproduce the behaviour**
`$ podman pull quay.io/centos/centos:stream10`

**Expected behaviour**
Container image to be pulled

**Actual behaviour**
```
ERRO[0000] invalid internal status, try resetting the pause process with "podman system migrate": cannot re-exec process to join the existing user namespace
```

**Output of `toolbox --version` (v0.0.90+)**
0.1.1

**Toolbx package info (`rpm -q toolbox`)**
toolbox-0.1.1-3.fc42.x86_64

**Output of `podman version`**
```
Client: Podman Engine
Version: 5.5.0
API Version: 5.5.0
Go Version: go1.24.3
Git Commit: 0dbcb51477ee7ab8d3b47d30facf71fc38bb0c98
Built: Wed May 14 02:00:00 2025
Build Origin: Fedora Project
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
```

**Podman package info (`rpm -q podman`)**
podman-5.5.0-1.fc42.x86_64

**Info about your OS**
Fedora Silverblue 42 (maybe bump "32" in the template ;o)

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported `podman pull quay.io/centos/centos:stream10` failure inside toolbox on Fedora Silverblue 42, using the listed toolbox and Podman versions. Trace the interaction that produces the user-namespace re-exec error and compare it with running the same command outside toolbox. Done means image pulls successfully inside toolbox or the limitation is documented with a clear explanation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
fedora, go, linux
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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