podman - containers stuck in stopping state after reboot

I have now bumped into this problem several times - some podman containers get stuck in the stopping state, but I'm not sure how to tackle the problem.

[grant@patches patches]$ podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                               COMMAND               CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                     NAMES
434645aa71eb  docker.io/library/postgres:15.3     postgres              40 minutes ago  Stopping                                                 patches-psql

no amount of force killing seems to stop the process. Ex:

[grant@patches patches]$ podman kill patches-psql
2023-08-11T19:17:28.307348Z: open pidfd: No such process
Error: container state improper: stopped
[grant@patches patches]$ podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                               COMMAND               CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                     NAMES
434645aa71eb  docker.io/library/postgres:15.3     postgres              52 minutes ago  Stopping                                                 patches-psql

I can remove the container with rm -f but I haven't found a way to force it to stop and then restart it.