Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA: Management Library not found: could not load NVML library: libnvidia-ml.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[fujisan43]

Describe the bug
I'm running a desktop with Fedora Workstation 41.
After downloading and creating a container, I cannot enter it. It tries to generate a 'Container Device Interface for NVIDIA'. Problem is, I do not have nvidia installed. I'm using the Nouveau driver.
I suspect the problem is linked to nvidia, but from this thread (#1578), the user seems to be able to go beyond the message 'Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA: skipping'.

Steps how to reproduce the behaviour

1. toolbox create
2. toolbox enter

Expected behaviour
I expect to enter the container.

Actual behaviour

$ toolbox enter -v 
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 user01 
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/user01/.config/toolbox 
WARN[0000] Failed to decode the keys ["storage.options.remap-uids" "storage.options.remap-gids" "storage.options.remap-user" "storage.options.remap-group" "storage.options.ostree_repo" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries"] from "/home/user01/.config/containers/storage.conf" 
DEBU Current Podman version is 5.4.2              
DEBU Creating runtime directory /run/user/1010/toolbox 
DEBU Old Podman version is 5.4.2                  
DEBU Migration not needed: Podman version 5.4.2 is unchanged 
DEBU Setting up configuration                     
DEBU Setting up configuration: file /home/user01/.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-41'               
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:41'                   
DEBU Release: '41'                                
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-41'               
DEBU Image: 'fedora-toolbox:41'                   
DEBU Release: '41'                                
DEBU Checking if container fedora-toolbox-41 exists 
WARN[0000] Failed to decode the keys ["storage.options.remap-uids" "storage.options.remap-gids" "storage.options.remap-user" "storage.options.remap-group" "storage.options.ostree_repo" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries"] from "/home/user01/.config/containers/storage.conf" 
DEBU Inspecting container fedora-toolbox-41       
WARN[0000] Failed to decode the keys ["storage.options.remap-uids" "storage.options.remap-gids" "storage.options.remap-user" "storage.options.remap-group" "storage.options.ostree_repo" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries" "storage.options.thinpool.xfs_nospace_max_retries"] from "/home/user01/.config/containers/storage.conf" 
DEBU Entry point of container fedora-toolbox-41 is toolbox (PID=0) 
DEBU Inspecting mounts of container fedora-toolbox-41 
DEBU Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA 
DEBU Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA: Management Library not found: could not load NVML library: libnvidia-ml.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 
DEBU Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA: not a Tegra system: /sys/devices/soc0/family file not found 
DEBU Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA: skipping 
DEBU Starting container fedora-toolbox-41         
Error: failed to start container fedora-toolbox-41

Output of toolbox --version (v0.0.90+)
toolbox version 0.1.1

Toolbx package info (rpm -q toolbox)
toolbox-0.1.1-1.fc41.x86_64

Output of podman version
e.g.,

Client:        Podman Engine
Version:       5.4.2
API Version:   5.4.2
Go Version:    go1.23.7
Git Commit:    be85287fcf4590961614ee37be65eeb315e5d9ff
Built:         Wed Apr  2 02:00:00 2025
Build Origin:  Fedora Project
OS/Arch:       linux/amd64

Podman package info (rpm -q podman)
podman-5.4.2-1.fc41.x86_64

Info about your OS
Fedora Workstation 41

Additional context
The user logged in on the workstation is a freeipa user.

$ toolbox list
IMAGE ID      IMAGE NAME                                    CREATED
0f3bd7e6a1bf  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:41  3 hours ago

CONTAINER ID  CONTAINER NAME     CREATED        STATUS   IMAGE NAME
7889dd825c79  fedora-toolbox-41  9 minutes ago  created  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:41

$ rpm -qa|grep -i nvidia
$ rpm -qa|grep -i nouveau
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.17-11.fc41.x86_64
$ lsmod|grep nouveau
nouveau              3866624  2
drm_ttm_helper         16384  1 nouveau
gpu_sched              65536  1 nouveau
drm_gpuvm              45056  1 nouveau
drm_exec               12288  2 drm_gpuvm,nouveau
mxm_wmi                12288  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           20480  2 i915,nouveau
ttm                   114688  3 drm_ttm_helper,i915,nouveau
drm_display_helper    303104  2 i915,nouveau
video                  81920  3 dell_wmi,i915,nouveau
wmi                    32768  10 video,intel_wmi_thunderbolt,dell_wmi,dell_wmi_aio,wmi_bmof,dell_smm_hwmon,dell_smbios,dell_wmi_descriptor,mxm_wmi,nouveau

[debarshiray]

These debug messages don't mean that the absence or presence of NVIDIA's proprietary driver or hardware caused any problems:

DEBU Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA 
DEBU Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA: Management Library not found: could not load NVML library: libnvidia-ml.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 
DEBU Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA: not a Tegra system: /sys/devices/soc0/family file not found 
DEBU Generating Container Device Interface for NVIDIA: skipping 

They mean that either NVIDIA's proprietary driver or hardware was missing, and so it's not running the code meant to handle them.

The problem is here:

DEBU Starting container fedora-toolbox-41         
Error: failed to start container fedora-toolbox-41

What happens if you do:

$ podman --log-level debug start --attach fedora-toolbox-41

[debarshiray]

Oops! There was a typo in my command above. I fixed it now.