I have RHEL 8.9 system that is runnign podman and has a pod running on it.
After a reboot I’ve found that one of the containers is in a “stopping” state and since then I cannot do anything on that pod.

That pod has a systemd file, I guess it’s connected to the problem

I tried to

sudo podman pod stop <POD>

But it got struck.

sudo podman kill <containter>

fails saying:

Error: container state improper: stopped

Inspecting the container I got it has a PID, but such PID does not exists.

ps -ax

shows that no such PID exists.

sudo kill -9 <PID>

Obviously fails either since does not exist.

Rebooting had no effects either.

I would like to get rid of the container so I can create the whole pod again.
Is there a way to force a container to die, gracefully or not…