Extremely slow rootless quadlet start

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Hallo.

I’m facing to problem with extremely slow quadlet start for some containers.. It takes 15 minutes for authentik container for example:

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It hangs on the Image Pull… I had to modify quadlet timeout to 30 minutes to be sure that service will go up…

Do you have an idea, what can be wrong?

graphDriverName: overlay
graphOptions: {}
graphRoot: /var/home/authentik/.local/share/containers/storage
graphRootAllocated: 10132369408
graphRootUsed: 5384335360
graphStatus:
Backing Filesystem: xfs
Native Overlay Diff: “true”
Supports d_type: “true”
Supports shifting: “false”
Supports volatile: “true”
Using metacopy: “false”

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You may find more infomation in the system journal.
Try sudo journalctl -b 0 -u authentik-server
If that is not helpful see if there are debug logging levels for that server you can turn on.

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There is nothing in journalctl --user -xeu service. It hangs exactly as shown on picture. And ir affects more images for me. But seems that the time is dependent on the real image size.

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You are probably hitting Native `overlay` storage has significant impact on rootless containers creation time · Issue #1749 · coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker · GitHub

Try to add an entry to your butane/ignition that creates a file to configure rootless podman for that user to use fuse-overlayfs:

$ cat ~/.config/containers/storage.conf 
[storage]
driver = "overlay"
[storage.options.overlay]
mount_program = "/usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs"
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Seems that this proposed config change works like a charm!! Thank you for the help !