I was digging into an IBM Container Registry (ICR), specifically to look at an image that I'd just built/pushed.
This is on a Mac upon which I've installed Podman, to replace Docker Desktop, as per previous posts.
Having logged into IBM Cloud ( I have a script for that ), I logged into the ICR instance: -
ic cr login
which responded: -
Logging in to 'us.icr.io'...
FAILED
Failed to 'docker login' to 'us.icr.io' with error: Cannot connect to Podman. Please verify your connection to the Linux system using `podman system connection list`, or try `podman machine init` and `podman machine start` to manage a new Linux VM
Error: unable to connect to Podman. failed to create sshClient: Connection to bastion host (ssh://core@localhost:53095/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock) failed.: dial tcp [::1]:53095: connect: connection refused
At which point, I realised where I'd gone wrong - I'd rebooted my Mac since last I did this, and, at a guess, the Podman Machine doesn't autostart.
I manually started it: -
podman machine start
INFO[0000] waiting for clients...
INFO[0000] listening tcp://0.0.0.0:7777
INFO[0000] new connection from to /var/folders/b5/8vqr9tt54v94jxzs0_k2qq2m0000gn/T/podman/qemu_podman-machine-default.sock
Waiting for VM ...
Machine "podman-machine-default" started successfully
and then attempted to log into ICR: -
ic cr login
Logging in to 'us.icr.io'...
Logged in to 'us.icr.io'.
OK