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mahfiles

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Registered: 2018-10-29

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[SOLVED] Docker fails to start

Docker is failing to start for me. When I try to start it with 'systemctl start docker' i get

 Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status docker.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. 

those two commands output

 journalctl -xe

-- The unit docker.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 07 16:29:22   systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.
-- Subject: A start job for unit docker.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: [url]https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[/url]
-- 
-- A start job for unit docker.service has finished with a failure.
-- 
-- The job identifier is 2987 and the job result is failed.
Apr 07 16:29:22   systemd[1]: docker.socket: Failed with result 'service-start-limit-hit'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: [url]https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[/url]
-- 
-- The unit docker.socket has entered the 'failed' state with result 'service-start-limit-hit'.

and

systemctl status docker.service

● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2019-04-07 16:29:22 MDT; 6s ago
     Docs: [url]https://docs.docker.com[/url]
  Process: 30849 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 30849 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 07 16:29:22   systemd[1]: docker.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Apr 07 16:29:22   systemd[1]: docker.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Apr 07 16:29:22   systemd[1]: Stopped Docker Application Container Engine.
Apr 07 16:29:22   systemd[1]: docker.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 07 16:29:22   systemd[1]: docker.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 07 16:29:22   systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.

is there anything I'm likely to be doing wrong? according to the wiki after install it should pretty much just start up, as far as I can see

Last edited by mahfiles (2019-07-10 20:37:48)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Docker fails to start

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

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artex

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Re: [SOLVED] Docker fails to start

I had this exact issue.  Update to the latest kernel, and the problem will be solved.