Toolbx/podman error can't fetch images due to error

Note: I am using sudo toolbox right now, as no such issues during rootful usage…

Since I installed Fedora 42 Kinoite, I have never been able to create my user-specific rootless toolbx container…

It downloads the blobs, then errs out due to some lchown error on the polkit file.

If I manually podman pull registery.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42, same error, so it’s error on podman’s side.

For other purposes, I tried to podman pull quay.io/fedora/fedora-bootc:42. That too fails with the same error.

I am unable to trace the cause of this error; I have tried quite a few combinations of modes and ownership on /etc/polkit-1/localauthority (AND now have restored it to it’s previous state).

Help will be appreciated.

The toolbox --verbose create output:

❯ toolbox --verbose create
DEBU Running as real user ID 1010                 
DEBU Resolved absolute path to the executable as /usr/bin/toolbox 
DEBU Running on a cgroups v2 host                 
DEBU Looking up sub-GID and sub-UID ranges for user pramodvu 
DEBU TOOLBX_DELAY_ENTRY_POINT is                  
DEBU TOOLBX_FAIL_ENTRY_POINT is                   
DEBU TOOLBOX_PATH is /usr/bin/toolbox             
DEBU Migrating to newer Podman                    
DEBU Toolbx config directory is /home/pramodvu/.config/toolbox 
DEBU Current Podman version is 5.5.0              
DEBU Creating runtime directory /run/user/1010/toolbox 
DEBU Old Podman version is 5.5.0                  
DEBU Migration not needed: Podman version 5.5.0 is unchanged 
DEBU Setting up configuration                     
DEBU Setting up configuration: file /home/pramodvu/.config/containers/toolbox.conf not found 
DEBU Resolving container and image names          
DEBU Container: ''                                
DEBU Distribution (CLI): ''                       
DEBU Image (CLI): ''                              
DEBU Release (CLI): ''                            
DEBU Resolved container and image names           
DEBU Container: 'fedora-toolbox-42'               
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:42'                   
DEBU Release: '42'                                
DEBU Resolving container and image names          
DEBU Container: ''                                
DEBU Distribution (CLI): ''                       
DEBU Image (CLI): ''                              
DEBU Release (CLI): ''                            
DEBU Resolved container and image names           
DEBU Container: 'fedora-toolbox-42'               
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:42'                   
DEBU Release: '42'                                
DEBU Checking if container fedora-toolbox-42 already exists 
DEBU Looking up image localhost/fedora-toolbox:42 
DEBU Resolving fully qualified name for image fedora-toolbox:42 from known registries 
DEBU Resolved image fedora-toolbox:42 to registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42 
DEBU Looking up image registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42 
Image required to create Toolbx container.
Download registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42 ( ... MB)? [y/N]: y
DEBU Returned from /dev/stdin: POLLIN             
DEBU Show prompt for download: image size canceled: context canceled: received confirmation without image size 
DEBU Pulling image registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42 
Trying to pull registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 744b9d8a39de done   | 
Error: internal error: unable to copy from source docker://registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42: copying system image from manifest list: writing blob: adding layer with blob "sha256:744b9d8a39de868d59da233a439cadd3588d58b484930109c221666604c9c651"/""/"sha256:5e50b3addcecd364f4b572b899d994a6ff2e22b9cf7e9ac38a0543e2232dc00f": unpacking failed (error: exit status 1; output: lchown /etc/polkit-1/localauthority: value too large for defined data type)
Error: failed to pull image registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42
If it was a private image, log in with: podman login registry.fedoraproject.org
Use 'toolbox --verbose ...' for further details.

A manual podman pull:

Trying to pull registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 744b9d8a39de done   | 
Error: internal error: unable to copy from source docker://registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42: copying system image from manifest list: writing blob: adding layer with blob "sha256:744b9d8a39de868d59da233a439cadd3588d58b484930109c221666604c9c651"/""/"sha256:5e50b3addcecd364f4b572b899d994a6ff2e22b9cf7e9ac38a0543e2232dc00f": unpacking failed (error: exit status 1; output: lchown /etc/polkit-1/localauthority: value too large for defined data type)
Error: failed to pull image registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42
If it was a private image, log in with: podman login registry.fedoraproject.org