Docker 1.3 fails to start on RHEL6.5 - docker

Question

I had earlier followed https://docs.docker.com/installation/rhel/ to install docker on rhel6.5. This used to work till today, till I decided to run "yum update" and upgraded to docker1.3.
Now, /etc/init.d/docker start fails.
-bash-4.1$ sudo /etc/init.d/docker status
docker dead but pid file exists
Contents of /var/log/docker:
-bash-4.1$ more /var/log/docker
\nSun Nov 30 23:29:14 IST 2014\n
2014/11/30 23:29:14 docker daemon: 1.3.1 c78088f/1.3.1; execdriver: native; grap
hdriver:
[dd907331] +job serveapi(unix:///var/run/docker.sock)
[info] WARNING: You are running linux kernel version 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64, whic
h might be unstable running docker. Please upgrade your kernel to 3.8.0.
/usr/bin/docker: relocation error: /usr/bin/docker: symbol dm_task_get_info_with
_deferred_remove, version Base not defined in file libdevmapper.so.1.02 with lin
k time reference
I don't have an option to upgrade to rhel7 yet, and have already tried to
yum downgrade - but yum list doesn't list the older version anymore
compile the older docker source, but docker doesn't let you build a binary anymore without the docker binary installed :(

Answer 1

/usr/bin/docker: relocation error: /usr/bin/docker: symbol dm_task_get_info_with_deferred_remove, version Base not defined in file libdevmapper.so.1.02 with link time reference
I ran into this at work this week (also on RHEL6.5). I believe the lib-device-mapper that you have isn't exporting a symbol ("Base") that Docker needs. I solved this by upgrading lib-device-mapper to version 1.02.90.
You may have to enable the public_ol6_latest repo in order to get this package.
sudo yum-config-manager --enable public_ol6_latest
And then install the package:
sudo yum install device-mapper-event-libs

Answer 2

TL;DR: In my case I needed to upgrade the package device-mapper-libs on CentOS/RHEL 6.5. Details below.
$ yum update -y device-mapper-libs
On RHEL/CentOS 6.5, I got the same error when trying to run the docker daemon:
$ docker -d
INFO[0000] +job serveapi(unix:///var/run/docker.sock)
INFO[0000] WARNING: You are running linux kernel version 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64, which might be unstable running docker. Please upgrade your kernel to 3.8.0.
INFO[0000] Listening for HTTP on unix (/var/run/docker.sock)
docker: relocation error: docker: symbol dm_task_get_info_with_deferred_remove, version Base not defined in file libdevmapper.so.1.02 with link time reference
While troubleshooting I came across the discussion docker.io: docker does't run after upgrade for Debian.
For reference here was my environment before the "fix":
$ uname -a
Linux build1 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
Before upgrading device-mapper-libs was at version 1.02.79. In the Debian bug report linked above, it was pointed out that Docker 1.4.1 (which is a different version than what the original poster asked about) is compiled against a newer version of device-mapper-libs (libdevmapper 2:1.02.90-1, note that the package name in Debian is different).
$ yum info device-mapper-libs
Installed Packages
Name : device-mapper-libs
Arch : x86_64
Version : 1.02.79
Release : 8.el6
<...snip...>
Updating device-mapper-libs fixed the problem:
$ yum update -y device-mapper-libs
# Yep, the package was updated to the latest version (1.02.90)
$ rpm -qi device-mapper-libs
Name : device-mapper-libs Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.02.90 Vendor: CentOS
Release : 2.el6_6.1 Build Date: Wed 26 Nov 2014
<...snip...>
Once the update is completed, the docker daemon will start successfully:
$ # docker -d
INFO[0000] +job serveapi(unix:///var/run/docker.sock)
INFO[0000] WARNING: You are running linux kernel version 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64, which might be unstable running docker. Please upgrade your kernel to 3.8.0.
INFO[0000] Listening for HTTP on unix (/var/run/docker.sock)
INFO[0000] +job init_networkdriver()
INFO[0000] -job init_networkdriver() = OK (0)
INFO[0000] Loading containers: start.
INFO[0000] Loading containers: done.
INFO[0000] docker daemon: 1.4.1 5bc2ff8/1.4.1; execdriver: native-0.2; graphdriver: devicemapper
INFO[0000] +job acceptconnections()
INFO[0000] -job acceptconnections() = OK (0)
Hope this helps!

Answer 3

I faced the same problem when installing Docker 1.5 on CentOS 7 on Vagrant/VBox. Upgrading DevMapper fixed the problem. To do so, run the command:
$ sudo yum update device-mapper

Answer 4

I met this issue after install docker 1.6 in centOS7 and cannot run docker successfully. After
yum install lvm2
it works for me in centOS7 :)
Hope this useful for people who had same problem in centOS7.