podman rmi error 'image not known' even if the image is present on host

[anandmokashi]

Issue Description

The image is being pulled, having 'pull failure' due to timeout. This may be due to multiple reasons primarily image being large and slow network.
The image is actually pulled and present on the host. However, when immediately tried to remove using 'podman rmi' command, below error is sent in the response:
"image not known".

When I checked the documentation, I found that the image written to the disk in two steps with hard lock acquired, where processes like rmi needs to gain the lock to remove the image otherwise it throws 'image not known' error.

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Pull large sized image
2. immediately try podman rmi
3. check the response
   This has to be done via some script to make it happen as quick as possible to reproduce the issue.

Describe the results you received

The result of 'podman rmi' was 'image not known' and image was actually present on the host.

Describe the results you expected

The expected result was removal of image successfully.

podman info output

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Podman in a container

Yes

Privileged Or Rootless

Privileged

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

Additional environment details

Additional information

Additional information like issue happens only occasionally or issue happens with a particular architecture or on a particular setting

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[mheon]

@Luap99 Did you mean to ask a question here when you tagged needinfo?

[baude]

please provide podman info information as the template asked for ... and if possible, an exact reproducer including the script or image name.