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swordfish01

Container is not running error

I am having an issue I can't figure out how to work around it. I am new to RunPod so please excuse the limited knowledge at this point.
I have my pod running (trying to finetune Mistral 7b) and have my SSH pub key configured under settings (can also see it when launching the pod). But when the Pod is ready and I attempt to connect/ssh into it using my private key, I get the same error everytime "Error response from daemon: Container 7b7a3790f1500c544348d2c6e09c286ee3fe3849adcb241ac54bceb3c518619f is not running"....even though I can see the the container running on the Container Logs.
Clicking on the "Start Web Terminal" on the UI doesnt do anything either....
I have restarted/terminated the Pod multiple times...but no luck
Solution
Thank you guys. The article and the questions sent me in the right direction. I am using a custom template and didnt realize the image "winglian/axolotl:main-py3.10-cu118-2.0.1" didnt have SSH installed. I updated the template with "winglian/axolotl-runpod:main-latest" and all is working now. I am finetuning the model as I write this. Thanks for all the help
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