diff --git a/cmd/podman-testing/store_supported.go b/cmd/podman-testing/store_supported.go
index 9cd2843880..0dd6ddde26 100644
--- a/cmd/podman-testing/store_supported.go
+++ b/cmd/podman-testing/store_supported.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func init() {
 func storeBefore() error {
 	defaultStoreOptions, err := storage.DefaultStoreOptions()
 	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "selecting storage options: %v", err)
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "selecting storage options: %v\n", err)
 		return nil
 	}
 	globalStorageOptions = defaultStoreOptions
diff --git a/cmd/podman/root.go b/cmd/podman/root.go
index 700b80939e..13a4aa210d 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/root.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/root.go
@@ -441,16 +441,16 @@ func configHook() {
 		if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 			// Cases where the folder does not exist are allowed, BUT cases where some other Stat() error
 			// is returned should fail
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Supplied --config folder (%s) exists but is not accessible: %s", dockerConfig, err.Error())
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Supplied --config folder (%s) exists but is not accessible: %s\n", dockerConfig, err.Error())
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
 		if err == nil && !statInfo.IsDir() {
 			// Cases where it does exist but is a file should fail
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Supplied --config file (%s) is not a directory", dockerConfig)
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Supplied --config file (%s) is not a directory\n", dockerConfig)
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
 		if err := os.Setenv("DOCKER_CONFIG", dockerConfig); err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "cannot set DOCKER_CONFIG=%s: %s", dockerConfig, err.Error())
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "cannot set DOCKER_CONFIG=%s: %s\n", dockerConfig, err.Error())
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/podman/syslog_unsupported.go b/cmd/podman/syslog_unsupported.go
index 602c480b68..46f678b316 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/syslog_unsupported.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/syslog_unsupported.go
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ func syslogHook() {
 		return
 	}
 
-	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Logging to Syslog is not supported on %s", runtime.GOOS)
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Logging to Syslog is not supported on %s\n", runtime.GOOS)
 	os.Exit(1)
 }
diff --git a/pkg/farm/farm.go b/pkg/farm/farm.go
index 7dfb495a8b..eba724253f 100644
--- a/pkg/farm/farm.go
+++ b/pkg/farm/farm.go
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ func (f *Farm) Build(ctx context.Context, schedule Schedule, options entities.Bu
 	buildResults.Range(func(_, v any) bool {
 		result, ok := v.(buildResult)
 		if !ok {
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "report %v not a build result?", v)
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "report %v not a build result?\n", v)
 			return false
 		}
 		perArchBuilds[result.report] = result.builder
diff --git a/test/e2e/run_test.go b/test/e2e/run_test.go
index 2b40ce5abe..ba5293fd75 100644
--- a/test/e2e/run_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/run_test.go
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ var _ = Describe("Podman run", func() {
 		tempFileName := tempFile.Name()
 		session := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"--config", tempFileName, "run", ALPINE, "ls"})
 		session.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
-		Expect(session).Should(ExitWithError(1, fmt.Sprintf(`Supplied --config file (%s) is not a directory`, tempFileName)))
+		// Note: ErrorToString() uses strings.Fields() which normalizes whitespace, so we're not testing the trailing newline
+		Expect(session).Should(ExitWithError(1, fmt.Sprintf("Supplied --config file (%s) is not a directory", tempFileName)))
 	})
 
 	It("podman run from manifest list", func() {