DevPod calling podman-compose with invalid argument "ls"

[whitebox2]

What happened?
DevPod is failing to start my development container due to an error with podman-compose. The error message indicates that DevPod is passing ls as an argument to podman-compose, which is an invalid command. The full error message is:

error Error finding project files: >>>> Executing external compose provider "/Users/ods/homebrew/bin/podman-compose". Please see podman-compose(1) for how to disable this message. <<<<

usage: podman-compose ...
podman-compose: error: argument command: invalid choice: 'ls' (choose from help, version, wait, systemd, pull, push, build, up, down, ps, run, exec, start, stop, restart, logs, config, port, pause, unpause, kill, stats, images} ...

What did you expect to happen instead?

I expected DevPod to successfully start my development container using podman-compose without any errors.

How can we reproduce the bug? (as minimally and precisely as possible)

1. Create a .devcontainer directory with a docker-compose.yml file (example below) and a devcontainer.json file (example below).
2. Run devpod up in the directory containing the .devcontainer directory.

My docker-compose.yml:

version: "1"
services:
  chart-dev: 
    build: .
    container_name: chart-container
    volumes:
      - .:/app
    working_dir: /app
    restart: unless-stopped

My devcontainer.json:

{
    "name": "My Dev Container",
    "dockerComposeFile": "docker-compose.yml",
    "service": "my-service",
    "workspaceFolder": "/app"
}

Local Environment:

• DevPod Version: [Run devpod version and paste the output here] (e.g., DevPod version v0.X.X)
• Operating System: mac
• ARCH of the OS: ARM64

DevPod Provider:

• Cloud Provider: N/A
• Kubernetes Provider: N/A
• Local/remote provider: docker (using Podman Desktop)
• Custom provider: N/A

Anything else we need to know?

I am using Podman Desktop. The podman-compose binary exists at /Users/ods/homebrew/bin/podman-compose. The issue seems to be that DevPod is incorrectly passing ls as an argument to podman-compose. The docker-compose.yml file is being loaded correctly (as per the logs), but the subsequent call to podman-compose fails.

log

[09:15:42] info time="2025-02-23T09:15:42+09:00" level=warning msg="/Users/ods/Documents/chart-container/.devcontainer/docker-compose.yml: the attribute `version` is obsolete, it will be ignored, please remove it to avoid potential confusion"
[09:15:42] debug Loaded project defaultchf101c
[09:15:43] error Error finding project files: >>>> Executing external compose provider "/Users/ods/homebrew/bin/podman-compose". Please see podman-compose(1) for how to disable this message. <<<<

usage: podman-compose [-h] [-v] [--in-pod in_pod] [--pod-args pod_args]
                      [--env-file env_file] [-f file] [--profile profile]
                      [-p PROJECT_NAME] [--podman-path PODMAN_PATH]
                      [--podman-args args] [--podman-pull-args args]
                      [--podman-push-args args] [--podman-build-args args]
                      [--podman-inspect-args args] [--podman-run-args args]
                      [--podman-start-args args] [--podman-stop-args args]
                      [--podman-rm-args args] [--podman-volume-args args]
                      [--no-ansi] [--no-cleanup] [--dry-run]
                      [--parallel PARALLEL] [--verbose]
                      {help,version,wait,systemd,pull,push,build,up,down,ps,run,exec,start,stop,restart,logs,config,port,pause,unpause,kill,stats,images} ...
podman-compose: error: argument command: invalid choice: 'ls' (choose from help, version, wait, systemd, pull, push, build, up, down, ps, run, exec, start, stop, restart, logs, config, port, pause, unpause, kill, stats, images)
Error: executing /Users/ods/homebrew/bin/podman-compose --project-name defaultchf101c ls -a --filter name=defaultchf101c --format json: exit status 2
: exit status 2

[jedthe3rd]

Try removing the attribute version from your compose file.

[whitebox2]

After reinstalling Podman, the issue no longer occurs.
I close this issue.

[kagesenshi]

After reinstalling Podman, the issue no longer occurs. I close this issue.

Hi, may I know what version of devpod, podman & podman-compose are you using?. I'm on podman==5.4.2, podman-compose==1.3.0 and devpod==0.7.0 but I'm still seeing this error on my computer and executing podman-compose ls directly, i did not see ls available as a choice in podman-compose

[whitebox2]

Hi, my development environment is set up with the following versions:

podman（podman desktop）==5.4.2

podman-compose(homebrew)==1.3.0

devpod(devpod desktop)==0.6.15

I don't install podman by homebrew.

[alanfzf]

Hi i got the same problem, seems like podman-compose ls is not even a subcommand on my end.

devpod v0.6.15                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
podman-compose version 1.3.0
podman version 5.4.1

[zerodegress]

Hi i got the same problem, seems like podman-compose ls is not even a subcommand on my end.嗨，我遇到了同样的问题，似乎 podman-compose ls 在我这边甚至不是一个子命令。

devpod v0.6.15
podman-compose version 1.3.0
podman version 5.4.1

I though that we should use docker-compose instead of podman-compose, even podman recommends that docker-compose be used first.