Error restarting podman machine too quickly

[deboer-tim]

Bug description

If I stop and restart a Podman machine 'too quickly' I get the failure below. It doesn't happen often - most of the time I can click as fast as possible and there's no problem, but other times I was slower and see this.

Operating system

macOS 13.3 M1

Version

next (development version)

Steps to reproduce

Create a new Podman machine. Start it, then try to stop and restart as fast as possible from the Settings > Resources page.

Relevant log output

index.ts:134 main ↪️ [podman] Error: Error: qemu exited unexpectedly with exit code 1, stderr: qemu-system-aarch64: cannot create PID file: Cannot lock pid file: Resource temporarily unavailable

    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/deboer/git/podman-desktop/extensions/podman/dist/extension.js:140:24)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1091:16)
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:302:5)
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Additional context

No response

[benoitf]

looks like an upstream issue

[deboer-tim]

Agreed, but so far I haven't been able to reproduce by using podman machine stop/start from the CLI. Not sure if there is something we're doing differently, or some odd behaviour like certain usage causes the stop to drag out abnormally.

[benoitf]

$ podman machine start                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Starting machine "podman-machine-default"
Waiting for VM ...
Error: qemu exited unexpectedly with exit code 1, stderr: qemu-system-aarch64: cannot create PID file: Cannot lock pid file: Resource temporarily unavailable

moving to upstream as it's not related to Podman Desktop

[benoitf]

looks like a dup of #16054

[deboer-tim]

Yup, agreed.