On Contrail controller host, containers are not running, although they were created.

When tried to start the container manually, using "podman start <container-name>" command these error messages were seen.

Error: unable to start container "884808f1325d4292d648b6fabd87b2d2635d21c6e78799a263e086db5b260184": lstat /var/log/containers/contrail: no such file or directory

Issue was due to the absence of /var/log/containers/contrail folder. (due to manual deletion or disk corruption)

Contrail containers are not running, although they were created.

Issue can be resolved by manually creating /var/log/containers/contrail folder and rebooting the contrail controller host.