"Error: No provider with a running engine". Unable to launch an AI Application despite Podman running

[mattreid]

Bug description

I have an M2 Pro MacBook, which I recently updated to the latest version of Podman Desktop and Podman, and installed the AI Lab extension. I was unable to successfully Start the chatbot AI app, it failed on the last two steps showing a dialog that said this:

Error: No provider with a running engine.

My MacBook showed that Podman was running. It would be nice if the error could be more descriptive of how to resolve the issue. In my case, after some troubleshooting, it seemed like the docker compatibility settings of Podman were messed up (the main page said I should enable it, clicking docker compatibility only offered me to disable it though, so I cycled it and podman enough times to get it back to enabled). Trying to run the app again was successful.

Wasn't sure if I should file this as a bug, for my podman settings getting out of sync, or an enhancement to try and improve the error message (or make it smarter and self-solve my settings to get them into the state it requires).

Operating system

M2 Pro MacBook 14.4.1

Installation Method

Installer from website/GitHub releases

Version

1.10.2

Steps to reproduce

In my case, I had a previous installation of Podman and Podman Desktop that was a few versions of out date, so I had to apply several updates to both a few days ago, taking me to 5.0.2 and 1.10.2. I downloaded the granite model and then went back up to the AI apps and tried installing the chatbot. It failed until I was able to troubleshoot and re-sync my docker compatibility settings so it would recognize that Podman was running.

Relevant log output

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Additional context