Pod stuck in error/removing state

[krystalcode]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (leave only one on its own line)

/kind bug

Description

I ran a script that creates a pod and then adds a couple of containers to it. I immediately realized I wanted to change some environment variables before running the containers and I hit Ctrl+C to stop the script.

It seems no container was created in the pod (apart from the pod's infra container). The pod is now stuck in Error state and the infra container in Removing state. I cannot recreate the pod, I cannot add containers to it, and even after a reboot it is stuck in the same state.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Create a pod and stop the process before finishing i.e. Ctrl+C

Describe the results you received:

4153a9f2c002: pod ID
1cd35e8d63aa: infra ID

$ podman pod rm -f 4153a9f2c002
Error: error freeing lock for container 1cd35e8d63aa1ea540b26b5fc3827bc951c2ec3ce2542a133ed86e52e80699e4: no such file or directory

$ podman pod rm -f 1cd35e8d63aa
# No output, no error.

$ podman rm -f 1cd35e8d63aa
Error: container 1cd35e8d63aa1ea540b26b5fc3827bc951c2ec3ce2542a133ed86e52e80699e4 is the infra container of pod 4153a9f2c0026706d6a9db22336d367c0717311cdb9275ec47bcefaa3fb6ed4f and cannot be removed without removing the pod

$ podman pod create --replace ......
Error: error freeing lock for container 1cd35e8d63aa1ea540b26b5fc3827bc951c2ec3ce2542a133ed86e52e80699e4: no such file or directory

$ podman run --pod ......
Error: error running container create option: cannot use container 1cd35e8d63aa1ea540b26b5fc3827bc951c2ec3ce2542a133ed86e52e80699e4 as a dependency as it is being removed: container state improper

Describe the results you expected:

I would expect force-removing the pod to clean this up. Or some instructions on how to clean this up.

Output of podman version:

podman version 4.2.0

Ouput of podman inspect 4153a9f2c002

[
     {
          "Id": "4153a9f2c0026706d6a9db22336d367c0717311cdb9275ec47bcefaa3fb6ed4f",
          "Name": "my_container",
          "Created": "2022-09-11T12:53:38.543868619-05:00",
          "CreateCommand": [
               "podman",
               "pod",
               "create",
               "--replace",
               "--name",
               "apps_gitlab_prod",
               "--publish",
               "8081:80",
               "--publish",
               "8082:22",
               "--network",
               "gitlab",
               "--hostname",
               "gitlab"
          ],
          "ExitPolicy": "continue",
          "State": "Error",
          "Hostname": "gitlab",
          "CreateCgroup": true,
          "CgroupParent": "user.slice",
          "CgroupPath": "user.slice/user-libpod_pod_4153a9f2c0026706d6a9db22336d367c0717311cdb9275ec47bcefaa3fb6ed4f.slice",
          "CreateInfra": true,
          "InfraContainerID": "1cd35e8d63aa1ea540b26b5fc3827bc951c2ec3ce2542a133ed86e52e80699e4",
          "InfraConfig": {
               "PortBindings": {
                    "22/tcp": [
                         {
                              "HostIp": "",
                              "HostPort": "8082"
                         }
                    ],
                    "80/tcp": [
                         {
                              "HostIp": "",
                              "HostPort": "8081"
                         }
                    ]
               },
               "HostNetwork": false,
               "StaticIP": "",
               "StaticMAC": "",
               "NoManageResolvConf": false,
               "DNSServer": null,
               "DNSSearch": null,
               "DNSOption": null,
               "NoManageHosts": false,
               "HostAdd": null,
               "Networks": [
                    "gitlab"
               ],
               "NetworkOptions": null,
               "pid_ns": "private",
               "userns": "host",
               "uts_ns": "private"
          },
          "SharedNamespaces": [
               "net",
               "uts",
               "ipc"
          ],
          "NumContainers": 1,
          "Containers": [
               {
                    "Id": "1cd35e8d63aa1ea540b26b5fc3827bc951c2ec3ce2542a133ed86e52e80699e4",
                    "Name": "4153a9f2c002-infra",
                    "State": "removing"
               }
          ]
     }
]

[mheon]

Dupe of #15526