podman 5 uses pasta as the default rootless network helper; podman 4
used slirp4netns. The spike was written against bookworm's podman 4.3.1,
so its package list never included passt — and the trixie bump (#451)
changed the default out from under it. Every nested container failed to
start with "could not find pasta", while image pulls and the service
itself worked, which disguised a missing dependency as a compat-API bug.
The bootstrap now checks for pasta up front so this fails with a clear
message instead of surfacing at the first `docker run`.
Note the sun_path fix in a12d2191 did NOT cause or cure this; that path
was over the 108-byte limit independently and would have bitten as soon
as attach was reached.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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