When running a container using the podman or docker command on a desktop system, you may encounter an error like the following:
Error: OCI runtime error: crun: sd-bus call: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1: Input/output error
A similar issue has been discussed in Podman GitHub Issue #13429, and it has been concluded that this is not a Podman bug.
Workaround
To resolve this issue, you can unset the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable by running:
export -n DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
This should prevent the runtime error when launching containers.