Rootless app doesn't start

I noticed that the onlyoffice app didn’t start showing following error:

podman[2849767]: Error: cannot re-exec process to join the existing user namespace

A workaround is to remove the file pause.pid, see also podman commands fail when run as non-root user with "Error: cannot re-exec process" · Issue #14635 · containers/podman · GitHub

Remove the right pause.pid, following example removes pause.pid for instance onlyoffice5:

rm /run/user/$(id -u onlyoffice5)/libpod/tmp/pause.pid

Now the app should be able to start again.

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