Docker Compose request (HTTP) read timeout - docker

Question

When I run this:
docker-compose --verbose create
I get this error:
compose.config.config.find: Using configuration files: ./docker-compose.yml
docker.auth.find_config_file: Trying paths: ['/home/ubuntu/.docker/config.json', '/home/ubuntu/.dockercfg']
docker.auth.find_config_file: No config file found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/docker-compose", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 68, in main
command()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 115, in perform_command
project = project_from_options('.', options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 37, in project_from_options
override_dir=options.get('--project-directory'),
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 99, in get_project
host=host, environment=environment
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 74, in get_client
version_info = six.iteritems(client.version())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docker/api/daemon.py", line 177, in version
return self._result(self._get(url), json=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py", line 46, in inner
return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 189, in _get
return self.get(url, **self._set_request_timeout(kwargs))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 488, in get
return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 475, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 596, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 499, in send
raise ReadTimeout(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout: UnixHTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=None): Read timed out. (read timeout=120)
I tried to extend the time:
export DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=120
export COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT=120
But clearly it has had no affect.
I rather not share my compose file. But here is a part of it:
version: '2'
services:
ntpd:
build: ../../../www/DockerNtpd/alpine
volumes:
- ntpd-log:/var/log/ntpd/:rw
network_mode: host
consul:
image: consul
networks:
dbs:
aliases:
- consul
apps:
aliases:
- consul
volumes:
- consul-log:/var/log/consul/:rw
- consul-conf:/etc/consul/:rw
vault:
build: ../../../www/DockerVault/alpine
depends_on:
- consul
volumes:
- vault-log:/var/log/vault/:rw
networks:
dbs:
aliases:
- vault
apps:
aliases:
- vault
It seems that it is getting stuck on the Consul image: https://hub.docker.com/_/consul/
I also checked the https://status.docker.com/ and it says All Systems Operational.
It used to work when I used the Vagrant provisioning for Docker.
More details:
root 1304 0.0 0.8 110032 8392 ? Ssl 18:44 0:00 /usr/bin/docker-volume-local-persist
root 3172 0.0 3.9 311140 39004 pts/0 Tl 20:34 0:00 dockerd
root 3179 0.0 0.9 137428 9408 ? Ssl 20:34 0:00 docker-containerd -l unix:///var/run/docker/libcontainerd/docker-containerd.sock --metrics-interval=0 --start-timeout 2m --state-dir /var/run/docker/libcontainerd/containerd --shim docker-containerd-shim --runtime docker-runc
lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-9.20160110ubuntu5-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu5-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu5-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu5-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 17.04
Release: 17.04
Codename: zesty