I broke my distrobox?
I might have deleted some stuff in .local/share/containers, now i can neither enter or remove my distrobox. help?
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podman container rm Fedora_42 seems to have fixed my issue. thank you!16 Replies
try using
distrobox rm -f Fedora_42 to force remove. You might need to remove all effected distroboxes and rebuild them depending on what was deleted.still reports the same message
please ping me in replies
Use podman to delete leftover containers & images
podman images
Run this
@jakjasie1 ping?
Wipe them all
podman image commands should let you delete them, I don't recall exact syntaxit reports that some images are in usage by other containers (distrobox), i don't want to remove it all
Can you run podman ps -a
the fedora image is only used by the troublesome Fedora_42 container and doesn't let me delete it either
Delete the fedora one from podman
Delethe the container too
Solution
doing
podman container rm Fedora_42 seems to have fixed my issue. thank you!