Related
I am new to Docker and trying to set it up on my Windows 10 machine. I installed Docker Desktop but when I run it, I get this "Docker desktop stopping..." message rightaway and Docker doesn't seem to start. What am I doing wrong?
I had the same probably using Windows. To fix it, I had to make sure WSL 2 was installed properly:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/wsl/install-manual#step-4---download-the-linux-kernel-update-package
If it's already installed on your machine, try uninstalling and reinstalling it.
However, I can see that people have already mentioned that solution. If you've done it and it didn't work, try this as well:
Open Docker Desktop and click on the 'troubleshoot' icon in the top right corner. Click 'Clean/Purge Data' and select 'WSL 2' only and click 'delete'. Then restart your machine and it should work. Hope that helps!
While I am trying to start with docker on my windows 10 machine it is returning the following error.
ERROR: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified.
I found when I logon to my computer, the hyper VM could not run docker virtual machine automatically though my docker desktop is running. Once I start docker virtual machine on hyper VM and restart docker once again, it works okay. But this is not a permanent solution. Could I get some help please?
Restarting Docker Desktop for Windows helped me. You can do that by right-click on tray icon and selecting restart.
The same problem with Me. I am writing this command in PowerShell Run As Administrator. Switch Docker from Windows to Linux and write the command like this:
cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"
./DockerCli.exe -SwitchLinuxEngine
This is the Simple way to solve this.
In my case, the reason for the error was even easier than the main answer ("close and open it again") suggests. Docker Desktop was just not running anymore!
When I hovered over the tray icon, it vanished.
Further details:
Docker Desktop had crashed, or it was closed because of a forced update. I had this problem after updating Java runtime environment.
When I opened Docker Desktop then, an update ran, and I could not even choose between yes or no, running for at least 5 minutes with the tray icon only showing "Docker Desktop is starting". The menu had crashed as well.
Update 10 / 2022
I solved this issue by restarting WSL, as only restarting Docker was not solving it for me.
In my situation, Docker was running as expected before encountering this issue.
These are the steps I took
Close Docker Desktop
Open cmd and run wsl --shutdown
Start Docker Desktop and press Restart on the notification below
(It should pop up in a few seconds)
I am able to auto trigger docker VM start on Hyper V by enabling the following in setting :
While the error below error continuing till docker starts okay and containers are running okay.
ERROR: open .\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified.
Try running the below commands in the Powershell and start the docker
Net stop com.docker.service
And then
Net start com.docker.service
My Docker Desktop was sort of freezing and was not starting up. Just kept showing Starting... for ever. Any docker command in terminal was throwing same exception "Error response from daemon: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux:". I tried some options a mentioned above, didn't worked on Windows 10. I just went to Windows Services ( In search box type "services"). Look for "Docker Desktop Service". Stop and Start it once. Then try starting your Docker Desktop again. It came up back super fast.
Try to add the folder with your project in Settings -> Resources -> File Sharing. And click the button Apply & Restart
I was facing the same issue while installing docker on windows 10. Later I could resolve the issue by updating the Linux kernel.
Go to this link and update the package for x64 machine
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#step-4---download-the-linux-kernel-update-package
One way of solving this problem is doing the following step again every time you open your pc:
# -------------------- enable the wsl for linux on windows ------------------- #
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
# ---------------------- enable virtual machine feature ---------------------- #
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
# ------------------------ set wsl as default version ------------------------ #
wsl --set-default-version 2
and then start docker desktop icon
and docker engine will start without any porblem
Tried a lot of things.
Helped:
Close Docker.
Start Docker as administrator.
In my case Docker Desktop was running fine but when I run docker pull for window image where as I also set switch to window container as well But I face this error Error response from daemon: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified
Finally I fixed it by running the below command in powershell as an administrative mode
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName $("Microsoft-Hyper-V", "Containers") -All
I was getting similar problem on window 10 so what i uninstall the verison 4.16 and install old version 4.13.
From setting update of docker desktop i click on update to latest version and after it works
Created all file that were missing earlier
I have my cloudflare WARP running that was causing this issue I just toggled it off and it worked.
I updated docker to the latest version. Error has gone.
to solve this problem make sure you install one of the linux distribution like alpine or ubunto and that step alot of youtube vedio tutorial miss nowaday in 2022 and by the way this step is menthoned in the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual and i mean here the step number 6 in the manual installation of windows subsystem for linux as short wsl => https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual
WSL 2 Installation was incomplete. After doing a 'restart' on Docker, it prompted me to get the Linux Kernel installed.
This message appeared while using IntelliJ service. Solutions for me was that Docker installed in windows should also be running and showing list of container. Once Docker desktop app shows container list. This docker was connected to intellij and error message was gone.
Purging data of HYPER-V, WSL 2 and Windows Containers did the trick for me. Purge data section is in troubleshooting.
I had the same issue ,I uninstalled the latest version and Installed Docker desktop 4.13, my problem is solved.
here is the download link :
https://desktop.docker.com/win/main/amd64/89412/Docker%20Desktop%20Installer.exe
Update Jan 2023
Follows up with #Michiel Pater's solution, in case wsl --shutdown hangs in your terminal, open task manager as administrator, find Windows Subsystem for Linux then kill it. After serveral seconds, press Restart from Docker Desktop notification
Error is resolved with latest Docker for Windows release 4.16.3 from 30. of January 2023.
Check here for details.
Solution For:
Docker forever in "Docker is starting.." at Windows task
Docker desktop is starting error
Docker "unable to calculate image disk size"
unable to calculate disk size docker
failed to ping VM diagnosticsd with error:
Get "http://ipc/ping": open \.\pipe\dockerDiagnosticd: The system
cannot find the file specified.
The same problem with Me in 2023. I am writing this command in PowerShell Run As Administrator. Switch Docker from Windows to Linux and write the command like this:
cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"
./DockerCli.exe -SwitchLinuxEngine
This is the simplest and best way to solve this.
ERROR:
C:\Users\user1>docker run hello-world
docker: Error response from daemon: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified.
See 'docker run --help'.
solution:
use this command => cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"
I am trying to learn Docker and have installed it on my laptop. I have tried to uninstall it and delete the Docker directory as Administrator, but keep getting the error message "The action cannot be completed because the file is open in Docker Desktop service". But Docker Desktop Service is not open, and does not appear whenever I open Task Manager. When I try to reinstall Docker, it says it it up to date, when clearly it is not. I would appreciate any help getting a fresh installation of Docker.
Here is the Docker directory C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker.
Here is the error message.
If you have access to the windows machine, through UI, you can:
Go to Start -> Services, and search for the Docker (probably is called Docker Desktop or something similar) service and
Manually Stop. You can also set the service to start Manually, not Automatically, give a restart and
Now Docker is completely stopped and
You can uninstall safely.
User azbarcea answered the question.
I am trying to run docker Desktop in my windows 10 Local. have installed it successfully but while running it I am getting the below error.
System.InvalidOperationException:
Failed to deploy distro docker-desktop to <localpath>: exit code: -1
stdout: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
I think it is saying some windows services need to be enabled, but I don't know which service has to be enabled could someone please help me with this concern?
docker version
C:\Users\lenova>docker --version
Docker version 20.10.2, build 2291f61
Uninstall Docker.
Uncheck Containers, Hyper-V, Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows features
Restart the system
Install Docker Desktop
Restart System
Start Docker Desktop
Right click on docker icon, run as administrator (if you have administrator rights on your computer). It solved the problem for me.
Try delete %USERPROFILE%/.wslconfig. If it helps then you can try to modify it so that it work. As for me I deleted the file, because on my workstation docker didn't want to work with it
Almost sure, that the accepted answer will work. However, it won't be an option, if you utilize WSL for other purposes as well. In that case, you may have several configurations/apps in WSL and just reinstalling or deleting your configuration will probably be a bad solution.
Furthermore: WSL is not the issue for this error! It is created by Docker engine configuration which will kill the WSL service (LxxsManager). This may happen because of
changed configuration (by you) or
because of a Docker update, maybe also
because of Windows updates
You can find a detailed discussion about this issue on Docker's GitHub Issues.
I personally experienced this problem after installing updates on Windows while running Docker v3.5.2. And again, reinstalling/killing WSL is not an option for me! So I tried to kill all services (Docker and WSL) and update Docker. Unfortunately that did not work in first place, since LxxsManager was in some weird state and I could not even kill it any more (even a kill command as admin with force switch did not do it's job!)... So here is my solution to fix that problem:
Remove Docker from autostart
Restart Windows (Yippiee: WSL works again! 🥰)
Install a new version of Docker (in my case v.4.2.0)
Restart Windows again (probably not necessary, but for me it was because Docker engine did not start before a Windows restart)
Start Docker (Yippiee: Docker works again! ☺️)
Note: Since I did not change Docker configuration, I installed an update. If you changed configuration options resulting in that crash, your solution may be different. Literally, instead of updating Docker (step 3) you would probably roll back your Docker configuration changes instead.
The quality of Docker for Windows is very bad. I catch these dangerous very often.
Check list:
(1) Use this tool https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html . Search docker, delete all.
(2) Remove WSL sub system, Hyper-V, then restart
(3). Create file foo.reg has content
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\AppId_Catalog\0408F7A3]
"AppFullPath"="C:\\Windows\\System32\\wsl.exe"
"PermittedLspCategories"=dword:80000000
run.
(4) Uninstall Docker
(5) Run cmd type ... . Delete folder .docker
Delete Docker folder in Program Files
(6) delete
(7) Install latest version of Docker.
(8) Re-install feature WSL for Windows.
Install Ubuntu from Windows store
(9) Re-install Docker (as Administrator)
(10) Run Docker as Administrator .
In my case, I was getting a similar error. This was happening because Docker desktop didn't have permissions to access the path C:\Users\Adithya\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\distro. This started happening after I switched to WSL2 backend.
The solution was to kill all docker process. Next, Run Docker Desktop as Administrator.
System.InvalidOperationException:
Failed to deploy distro docker-desktop to C:\Users\Adithya\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\distro:
exit code: -1 stdout: The operation timed out because a response was not received from the virtual machine or container.
run as administrator , and you switch the container to windows by clicking the icon bar in the right corner taskbar and choose switch to windows container
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick-start/quick-start-windows-10-linux
If you don't need to run Linux and Windows containers side-by-side, an option is to turn off the WSL and use Hyper-v instead. This should work fine.
I had to exit Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN to get docker to work on my system. Not sure why.
I had the PgAdmin 4 app running, and when I closed it and tried starting Docker Desktop again it booted normally.
Not sure if there is a link, but an easy solution to try.
This worked for me: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/547#issuecomment-873540236
Copy below snippet:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\AppId_Catalog\0408F7A3]
"AppFullPath"="C:\\Windows\\System32\\wsl.exe"
"PermittedLspCategories"=dword:80000000
Save it as a file wsl.reg
Execute the file to update the registry
Launch Ubuntu again
Issue resolved
In my case, the issue was caused by Acrylic DNS server. Anything that holds port 53, would be a problem.
Interesting that it all worked fine for a few days after installation, maybe because I did not reboot the laptop all that time, only used the deep hibernation. So it was hard to guess what could break the docker setup, I was sure that it was because of the recently installed windows or docker updates.
Restarting wsl worked for me.
Run the following
wsl --shutdown, wait for it to shutdown
wsl, wait for it to start
Start Docker Desktop after this.
On Windows 10:
Open Services
Right click on LXSSMANAGER -> Restart
Close wsl using cmd with following command:
wsl --shutdown
Execute following start wsl again:
wsl
I solved by the following steps:
Uninstall Docker and WSL 2 kernel.
Uncheck Containers, Hyper-V, Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows
features
Restart the system
Install Docker Desktop
Restart System
Start Docker Desktop
The problem is in WSL as it becomes unresponsive and returns a service error if you try the following command in PowerShell:
wsl -l -v
I believe the process can be simplified a bit more with:
Uncheck Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows Features
Reboot
Turn the feature back on
Re-apply the WSL2 update
Reboot
No need to uninstall/reinstall Docker Desktop.
This got me back up and running with Windows 10 Home (which requires WSL2) and Docker Desktop 2.4.0
While I am trying to start with docker on my windows 10 machine it is returning the following error.
ERROR: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified.
I found when I logon to my computer, the hyper VM could not run docker virtual machine automatically though my docker desktop is running. Once I start docker virtual machine on hyper VM and restart docker once again, it works okay. But this is not a permanent solution. Could I get some help please?
Restarting Docker Desktop for Windows helped me. You can do that by right-click on tray icon and selecting restart.
The same problem with Me. I am writing this command in PowerShell Run As Administrator. Switch Docker from Windows to Linux and write the command like this:
cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"
./DockerCli.exe -SwitchLinuxEngine
This is the Simple way to solve this.
In my case, the reason for the error was even easier than the main answer ("close and open it again") suggests. Docker Desktop was just not running anymore!
When I hovered over the tray icon, it vanished.
Further details:
Docker Desktop had crashed, or it was closed because of a forced update. I had this problem after updating Java runtime environment.
When I opened Docker Desktop then, an update ran, and I could not even choose between yes or no, running for at least 5 minutes with the tray icon only showing "Docker Desktop is starting". The menu had crashed as well.
Update 10 / 2022
I solved this issue by restarting WSL, as only restarting Docker was not solving it for me.
In my situation, Docker was running as expected before encountering this issue.
These are the steps I took
Close Docker Desktop
Open cmd and run wsl --shutdown
Start Docker Desktop and press Restart on the notification below
(It should pop up in a few seconds)
I am able to auto trigger docker VM start on Hyper V by enabling the following in setting :
While the error below error continuing till docker starts okay and containers are running okay.
ERROR: open .\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified.
Try running the below commands in the Powershell and start the docker
Net stop com.docker.service
And then
Net start com.docker.service
My Docker Desktop was sort of freezing and was not starting up. Just kept showing Starting... for ever. Any docker command in terminal was throwing same exception "Error response from daemon: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux:". I tried some options a mentioned above, didn't worked on Windows 10. I just went to Windows Services ( In search box type "services"). Look for "Docker Desktop Service". Stop and Start it once. Then try starting your Docker Desktop again. It came up back super fast.
Try to add the folder with your project in Settings -> Resources -> File Sharing. And click the button Apply & Restart
I was facing the same issue while installing docker on windows 10. Later I could resolve the issue by updating the Linux kernel.
Go to this link and update the package for x64 machine
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#step-4---download-the-linux-kernel-update-package
One way of solving this problem is doing the following step again every time you open your pc:
# -------------------- enable the wsl for linux on windows ------------------- #
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
# ---------------------- enable virtual machine feature ---------------------- #
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
# ------------------------ set wsl as default version ------------------------ #
wsl --set-default-version 2
and then start docker desktop icon
and docker engine will start without any porblem
Tried a lot of things.
Helped:
Close Docker.
Start Docker as administrator.
In my case Docker Desktop was running fine but when I run docker pull for window image where as I also set switch to window container as well But I face this error Error response from daemon: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified
Finally I fixed it by running the below command in powershell as an administrative mode
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName $("Microsoft-Hyper-V", "Containers") -All
I was getting similar problem on window 10 so what i uninstall the verison 4.16 and install old version 4.13.
From setting update of docker desktop i click on update to latest version and after it works
Created all file that were missing earlier
I have my cloudflare WARP running that was causing this issue I just toggled it off and it worked.
I updated docker to the latest version. Error has gone.
to solve this problem make sure you install one of the linux distribution like alpine or ubunto and that step alot of youtube vedio tutorial miss nowaday in 2022 and by the way this step is menthoned in the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual and i mean here the step number 6 in the manual installation of windows subsystem for linux as short wsl => https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual
WSL 2 Installation was incomplete. After doing a 'restart' on Docker, it prompted me to get the Linux Kernel installed.
This message appeared while using IntelliJ service. Solutions for me was that Docker installed in windows should also be running and showing list of container. Once Docker desktop app shows container list. This docker was connected to intellij and error message was gone.
Purging data of HYPER-V, WSL 2 and Windows Containers did the trick for me. Purge data section is in troubleshooting.
I had the same issue ,I uninstalled the latest version and Installed Docker desktop 4.13, my problem is solved.
here is the download link :
https://desktop.docker.com/win/main/amd64/89412/Docker%20Desktop%20Installer.exe
Update Jan 2023
Follows up with #Michiel Pater's solution, in case wsl --shutdown hangs in your terminal, open task manager as administrator, find Windows Subsystem for Linux then kill it. After serveral seconds, press Restart from Docker Desktop notification
Error is resolved with latest Docker for Windows release 4.16.3 from 30. of January 2023.
Check here for details.
Solution For:
Docker forever in "Docker is starting.." at Windows task
Docker desktop is starting error
Docker "unable to calculate image disk size"
unable to calculate disk size docker
failed to ping VM diagnosticsd with error:
Get "http://ipc/ping": open \.\pipe\dockerDiagnosticd: The system
cannot find the file specified.
The same problem with Me in 2023. I am writing this command in PowerShell Run As Administrator. Switch Docker from Windows to Linux and write the command like this:
cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"
./DockerCli.exe -SwitchLinuxEngine
This is the simplest and best way to solve this.
ERROR:
C:\Users\user1>docker run hello-world
docker: Error response from daemon: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified.
See 'docker run --help'.
solution:
use this command => cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"