Okay… per all the above clues I finally fixed this on my Ubuntu 22.04 system (upgraded from 20.04).
It was a CGROUP2 bug/problem so I disabled “cgroup2” use on the HOST and now things work and all the containers startup Ok.
Work-around Solution was:
add the following string to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
line in /etc/default/grub
and then run sudo update-grub
.
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0