diff --git a/common/scripts/pattern-util.sh b/common/scripts/pattern-util.sh
index ff6b2bbb6..77e0ed389 100755
--- a/common/scripts/pattern-util.sh
+++ b/common/scripts/pattern-util.sh
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ fi
 
 # Detect if we use podman machine. If we do not then we bind mount local host ssl folders
 # if we are using podman machine then we do not bind mount anything (for now!)
-REMOTE_PODMAN=$(podman system connection list -q | wc -l)
+REMOTE_PODMAN=$(podman system connection list | tail -n +2 | wc -l)
 if [ $REMOTE_PODMAN -eq 0 ]; then # If we are not using podman machine we check the hosts folders
     # We check /etc/pki/tls because on ubuntu /etc/pki/fwupd sometimes
     # exists but not /etc/pki/tls and we do not want to bind mount in such a case
diff --git a/common/scripts/process-secrets.sh b/common/scripts/process-secrets.sh
index a0d34f880..10288d1f7 100755
--- a/common/scripts/process-secrets.sh
+++ b/common/scripts/process-secrets.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ COMMONPATH=$(dirname "${SCRIPTPATH}")
 PATTERNPATH=$(dirname "${COMMONPATH}")
 
 PATTERN_NAME=${1:-$(basename "`pwd`")}
-SECRETS_BACKING_STORE="$($SCRIPTPATH/determine-secretstore-backend.sh)"
+SECRETS_BACKING_STORE="$("$SCRIPTPATH/determine-secretstore-backend.sh")"
 
 EXTRA_PLAYBOOK_OPTS="${EXTRA_PLAYBOOK_OPTS:-}"