cloud-init[915]: Failed to connect to bus: No medium found

[cmoulliard]

Issue

During the execution of the bash script - https://github.com/iocanel/openshift-vm-playground/blob/fc58851fb75af3d2c1269fad0e2b9cfc5a1305a3/resources/config.sh
and commands:

sudo dnf -y install podman socat
systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket
loginctl enable-linger 1000

cloudinit reports the following error and stop the execution of the commands:

Nov 10 10:24:49 fedora37 cloud-init[915]: Failed to connect to bus: No medium found

NOTe: I suspect that the issue that we have here is related to the fact that we would like to enable the service for user 1000 (= podman rootless mode) while in fact the script and the bash commands are not executed by the user 1000 as we are not logged !

[cmoulliard]

Of course, we can enable the service as root using such a syntax

sudo systemctl start podman.socket
sudo systemctl enable podman.socket

sudo socat TCP-LISTEN:2376,reuseaddr,fork,bind=0.0.0.0 unix:/run/podman/podman.sock &

That will work but then another question will raise which is about: Should we start on the VM podman as rootful or rootless ?