Docker desktop for windows 10 не запускается

I habe the same problem, since some days:

• Windows Version: Windows 10 Pro 20H2 — Build 19042.928
• Docker Desktop Version: 3.3.1
• WSL2 or Hyper-V backend? WSL 2 based engine
• Are you running inside a virtualized Windows e.g. on a cloud server or a VM: No
• Diagnostics ID: 60E75FB0-7B8D-4333-83B1-B75108000EBD/20210419044416

The first days restarting the com.docker.service service fixes this issue. But now I must go to the Troubleshooting menu in Docker Desktop an «Clean / Purge data» for WSL2. After that, Docker works again, but only until the next restart.

I tried to reinstall WSL2 and also turn off fast startup in Windows, but this does not solve the problem.

The output of «wsl -l -v» after a restart is:

  NAME                   STATE           VERSION
* Ubuntu                 Running         2
  docker-desktop-data    Stopped         2
  docker-desktop         Stopped         2

The docker icon in the taskbar not showing «the small container».

Same here

Windows Version: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19041 Build 19041
Docker Desktop Version: 3.3.1
WSL2 or Hyper-V backend: WSL 2 based engine
Are you running inside a virtualized Windows e.g. on a cloud server or a VM: No

Similar to Abrueck. When I clean/purge data the WSL2 engine starts and everything seems to work again.

Same thing for me since 3.3.1 using Hyper-V. Cleaning data also solve the issue.

Here is my Diagnostics ID if it can help: 1D7DFA7F-F9AD-4393-9DEE-920993A35CC7/20210420110952

I had the same problems with 3.3.1 using WSL2.

Downgrading to 3.2.2, Reset to factory defaults and updating to 3.3.1 fixed it for me.

@CPTechnikVX Is it fixed permanently? The same procedure worked for me, but only until I rebooted the computer. Now, when I try to start Docker it hangs again. I then have to go back and reset to factory or purge, before I can start Docker

@CPTechnikVX Is it fixed permanently? The same procedure worked for me, but only until I rebooted the computer. Now, when I try to start Docker it hangs again. I then have to go back and reset to factory or purge, before I can start Docker

@chlillelund Unfortunately, I have the same behaviour. After a reboot it’s broken again and I can’t reach «Troubleshoot» anymore But that happened only after I started using kubernetes again. No idea if there is a connection.

It seems to be an issue with WSL2. I had to disable from Windows Features, uninstall docker, restart, install docker again but at the moment it asks to deploy WSL2 I unchecked this and it worked. So I can confirm there is an issue with WSL2 and docker desktop for Windows. Do you know guys who should to report this bug?

I tried adding the following lines to my .wslconfig file

[wsl2]
guiapplications=false

but Docker started successfully only once. I don’t think the changes made it work once. The proposal does not seem to solve my problem.

I am one step further. I found out that Docker only starts for me when I am connected to the company via VPN (domain controller?). I have disabled autostart, connect via VPN first after login and then start Docker. With version 3.2.x it still ran without VPN. No idea if that helps narrow down the cause.

Same issue for me, even downgrading to 3.3.0 didn’t help.
Even if Docker Desktop starts up, at some point after that it will lose the connection somehow and is not able to restore it. I then have to purge all data and redeploy all containers and hope they work as expected. (all HpyerV Backend, no WSL whatsoever)

Diagnostic ID 9128567D-5F64-415B-AEC3-AC20E97D3825/20210422134148

Also; when this happens and I run docker container ls e.g. from CMD it shows Error reponse from Daemon: i/o timeout

I found the following line in the log which confuses me. I have neither WSL2 installed nor have I checked the «use WSL2» checkbox in docker.

Why is it trying to use it?

[15:49:36.484][GoBackendProcess  ][Info   ] GET failed with Get "http://unix/forwards/list": open \\.\pipe\dockerWsl2BootstrapExposePorts: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.

Edit; I got it running after some purges and what I noticed is in the log the following lines are just repeating every couple of seconds. As I said, I don’t use WSL2 and I do not have any VPN connections on the machine.

[16:26:36.658][GoBackendProcess  ][Info   ] GET failed with Get "http://unix/forwards/list": open \\.\pipe\dockerWsl2BootstrapExposePorts: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
[16:26:36.658][GoBackendProcess  ][Info   ] msg="external: GET /forwards/list 200 \"Go-http-client/1.1\" \"\""
[16:26:36.658][ApiProxy          ][Info   ] msg="proxy << GET /v1.40/containers/json?all=true (2.8309ms)\n"
[16:26:36.659][ApiProxy          ][Info   ] msg="proxy >> GET /v1.40/images/json\n"
[16:26:36.659][VpnKitBridge      ][Info   ] msg="error CloseWrite to: Die Pipe wird gerade geschlossen."
[16:26:36.662][ApiProxy          ][Info   ] msg="proxy << GET /v1.40/images/json (1.619ms)\n"
[16:26:36.662][VpnKitBridge      ][Info   ] msg="error CloseWrite to: Die Pipe wird gerade geschlossen."
[16:26:36.670][ApiProxy          ][Info   ] msg="proxy >> GET /v1.40/containers/json?all=true\n"

I am one step further. I found out that Docker only starts for me when I am connected to the company via VPN (domain controller?). I have disabled autostart, connect via VPN first after login and then start Docker. With version 3.2.x it still ran without VPN. No idea if that helps narrow down the cause.

As @CPTechnikVX indicated above, I too have found that if I connect to my company’s VPN first, then Docker Desktop will start and appears to run normally. I can also confirm that version 3.2.x started and ran fine without the VPN being connected. Because I’m not on a team version, when 3.2.x is installed, it is automatically upgraded to 3.3.1 on the next reboot and the problem comes right back.

Also, when not connected to the VPN, the Docker Desktop (3.3.1) Settings Screen has a spinner on it that loads forever.

The support/diagnostics screen is able to load and I was able to register a successful diagnostic. This is in the «broken» mode where I’m not connected to the VPN and docker desktop will not successfully load:
Diagnostics ID: D02CCEDE-9F66-403C-8750-365AE8E7959B/20210422135409

Hope this helps.

I’m having the same issue. Version 3.2.2 will start and keep running, but I can’t stop it from updating to a higher version.
3.3.0 and higher will only start (even immediately after a complete re-install) after resetting to factory settings. After any restart it fails again.
I’m also getting the error during connect: In the default daemon configuration on Windows, the docker client must be run with elevated privileges to connect.: Get http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdocker_engine/v1.24/containers/json: open //./pipe/docker_engine: The system cannot find the file specified. error from the cli.

From what I can tell there are two background processes that aren’t starting: com.docker.proxy.exe and com.docker.wsl-distro-proxy.exe. After resetting to factory defaults these start up and everything works as expected.

Diagnostics Id: 08966A9E-4F41-4FBC-B95C-F3F994876D15/20210422233159

@stevenobird

Restarting the Docker Desktop.exe and the com.docker.service service fixes this issue — until the next Windows reboot.

could you expand on this? I have restarted the Docker Desktop.exe and also restarted the service with pwsh admin Restart-Service com.docker.service but it doesn’t seem to fix the issue for me — though everything else seems exactly as you describe.

@stevenobird

Restarting the Docker Desktop.exe and the com.docker.service service fixes this issue — until the next Windows reboot.

could you expand on this? I have restarted the Docker Desktop.exe and also restarted the service with pwsh admin Restart-Service com.docker.service but it doesn’t seem to fix the issue for me — though everything else seems exactly as you describe.

That’s really the only two steps I do to temporarily fix the issue.
I stop Docker Desktop.exe with the Task Manager under «Details» tab and switch to «Services» tab to restart com.docker.service (which should be similar to doing it with Powershell). After that, I manually open up Docker Desktop.exe again and everything boots up as it should.

@stevenobird

Restarting the Docker Desktop.exe and the com.docker.service service fixes this issue — until the next Windows reboot.

could you expand on this? I have restarted the Docker Desktop.exe and also restarted the service with pwsh admin Restart-Service com.docker.service but it doesn’t seem to fix the issue for me — though everything else seems exactly as you describe.

That’s really the only two steps I do to temporarily fix the issue.

I stop Docker Desktop.exe with the Task Manager under «Details» tab and switch to «Services» tab to restart com.docker.service (which should be similar to doing it with Powershell). After that, I manually open up Docker Desktop.exe again and everything boots up as it should.

Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work for me but if I go into the troubleshooting part of the docker desktop app and purge hyperv data it forces a restart of the docker service and boots up again, keeping my wsl2 images etc because it’s using the WSL2 engine instead.

It could just be me not doing the Windows service restarts right etc, but it’s an easier workaround anyway tbh.

@stevenobird

Restarting the Docker Desktop.exe and the com.docker.service service fixes this issue — until the next Windows reboot.

could you expand on this? I have restarted the Docker Desktop.exe and also restarted the service with pwsh admin Restart-Service com.docker.service but it doesn’t seem to fix the issue for me — though everything else seems exactly as you describe.

That’s really the only two steps I do to temporarily fix the issue.

I stop Docker Desktop.exe with the Task Manager under «Details» tab and switch to «Services» tab to restart com.docker.service (which should be similar to doing it with Powershell). After that, I manually open up Docker Desktop.exe again and everything boots up as it should.

Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work for me but if I go into the troubleshooting part of the docker desktop app and purge hyperv data it forces a restart of the docker service and boots up again, keeping my wsl2 images etc because it’s using the WSL2 engine instead.

It could just be me not doing the Windows service restarts right etc, but it’s an easier workaround anyway tbh.

And there’s my problem: Docker Desktop is unresponsive/hanging so I can’t even get to the troubleshooting part. 😅 That’s why I take my described steps in the first place.

@stevenobird

Restarting the Docker Desktop.exe and the com.docker.service service fixes this issue — until the next Windows reboot.

could you expand on this? I have restarted the Docker Desktop.exe and also restarted the service with pwsh admin Restart-Service com.docker.service but it doesn’t seem to fix the issue for me — though everything else seems exactly as you describe.

That’s really the only two steps I do to temporarily fix the issue.
I stop Docker Desktop.exe with the Task Manager under «Details» tab and switch to «Services» tab to restart com.docker.service (which should be similar to doing it with Powershell). After that, I manually open up Docker Desktop.exe again and everything boots up as it should.

Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work for me but if I go into the troubleshooting part of the docker desktop app and purge hyperv data it forces a restart of the docker service and boots up again, keeping my wsl2 images etc because it’s using the WSL2 engine instead.
It could just be me not doing the Windows service restarts right etc, but it’s an easier workaround anyway tbh.

And there’s my problem: Docker Desktop is unresponsive/hanging so I can’t even get to the troubleshooting part. 😅 That’s why I take my described steps in the first place.

Ah interesting! For me, the docker desktop settings page hangs and is unresponsive, but I’m able to access the troubleshooting tab! I hope it’s fixed soon, I keep on ranting and raving to people at work at how good the WSL2 workflow is instead of virtualbox and then this happens 🤣

Ah interesting! For me, the docker desktop settings page hangs and is unresponsive, but I’m able to access the troubleshooting tab! I hope it’s fixed soon, I keep on ranting and raving to people at work at how good the WSL2 workflow is instead of virtualbox and then this happens 🤣

Got it working now. Double click on the icon in the taskbar makes it indeed working so I can finally send diagnostics that are in an «unresponsive» state.

Diagnostic ID: CEE7896D-A758-4E58-87F1-61F5D73B9549/20210423174133

What worked for me now (twice) is to sign out of Windows and then sign back in again.

I seem to have a similar problem. I need to purge all data to make Docker start again and be useable in WSL2 after a reboot. I am using version 3.3.1 of Docker Desktop. I upgraded a few weeks ago to 3.3.1 and had no issues so far. The problem appeared just a few days ago. The only thing that changed recently is, that I installed the KB4023057 Windows update. After that, the problem started to occur.

The solution «stop Docker Desktop.exe with the Task Manager under «Details» tab and switch to «Services» tab to restart com.docker.service » works for me, but I also noticed that if I wait several minutes after logging to my PC before starting docker desktop (I disabled automatic start) it works too (but then ,sometimes, docker takes 5 minutes to achieve start. It seemes relatated to com.docker.proxy.exe ) Docker for windows is a good product but at almost every update I encounter problems.

Same problem here. Windows starts, Docker doesn’t, no tray icon, nothing. Task manager shows Docker Desktop and Docker.Service running, with Docker Desktop Backend showing up for a fraction of a second ever few minutes. When I run Docker Desktop from the exe or the shortcut (even as Admin, still the same), I instantly get a window popup with «Docker failed to initialize The operation had timed out.» without any hanging or anything, just instant popup.

I’ve tried killing and restarting all the processes I can find, tried uninstall/reinstall, tried downgrading all the way back to 3.5.0, re-installed the Linux package, made sure Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux are both checked, checked bios to make sure all virtualizations are enabled.. Everything was working fine yesterday evening, wont work now. I also tried running docker commands from the cli but it says the daemon isn’t running. I tried to run it manually but «dockerd» isn’t a recognized command. Also tried «DockerCli.exe -SwitchDaemon» and that does nothing. Multiple, shutdowns, reboots and logouts also do nothing. I’m out of ideas at this point.

I got this too with Docker v4.0 & v4.1. I had to rollback/clean install v3.3.0, seems to be the only version working fine on my Windows 10 :'(

Here is what helped me with Docker Desktop 4.1.1 (69879) on Windows Pro 10

1. Make sure you have Instaled WSL 2 backend

Open powershell as administrator
Type as command

wsl.exe --install -d Ubuntu

Set Ubuntu version wsdl 2

wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2

Set wsl to as default version 2

wsl --set-default-version 2

1. Enable VirtualMachinePlatform

Open powershell as administrator
Type as command

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform

1. Install Docker Docker Desktop (4.1.1)

2. Run Docker Desktop and make sure you have dockeker desktop settings

1. Restart

Man, I still never got this to work again, even after complete uninstall/reinstall, including purge data and manually delete AppData. Uninstalled again. Going to Rancher Desktop + nerdctl

What was working for me, after several re-installs:

1. Remove Docker Desktop from autostart
2. (Re-)Boot up Windows
3. Manually Stop Docker Desktop Service
4. Optionally connect to your VPN
5. Manually Start Docker Desktop Service
6. Start Docker Desktop
7. Wait for 30(!) Minutes
   => Docker Desktop is running

Still using Hyper V Backend, wsl2 has too many issues (https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues). More occupied with repairing things in windows than actually developing.

Technical Masterpiece…
WSL2 Backend is crappy as hell, alone due to ext4 issues when your are shutting down your PC to fast (not that we have any control over that in Windows).
If I were not forced to develop on windows, I never would use this. Oh, wait, this costs money now? What for exactly?

Same here (since half a year or so). Having to restart WSL2 completely which forces docker to restart. Before that I can’t communicate with any container.

Hi All
Almost certainly a different issue but we were unable to get 4.5.0 to start on Windows 11 (we only tried Win 11)
We had to install 4.4.4 instead.

@dodgyd Hey experiencing the same issue.

@Tylerpfarris I saw that 4.5.1 is out now but I have held of updating from 4.4.4.
I have not had any issues with 4.4.4

My issue was docker would not start at all.

Hello All,

How I have fixed this issue is by ensuring that:

• The WSL 2 docker-engine was running inside of Ubuntu 20.04
• The docker daemon has been started.
• «Use the WSL 2 based engine» was checked in Docker Desktop.

After that, essentially restarting the docker desktop was all I needed to get my environment working again.

@dodgyd I had a similar problem. The tool stopped working after updating to version 4.5.1. Instead of downgrading to 4.4.4, I tried using the new version 4.6.0. It worked.

Same issue here with newest docker-desktop (4.6.1 (76265)). How i got it working again:

1. Close all docker-related processes via the task manager
2. Purge the settings.json file C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Docker
3. Startup Docker as normal user again

For me neither pre-configured containers nor their settings or data got lost.
Hope this helps you guys!

So….. If you’re upgrading, as I just did from an old Docker desktop from about 3-4 years ago and hit a brick wall — test if you were running Windows containers as it appears that this does something kooky with your Hyper-v and kinda sets it, and the upgrade wants to default to Linux containers which for me was throwing the error. When I switched to Windows containers the Docker started working (stopped and restarted ) — Hope that helps (Btw, now on: Docker version 20.10.14, build a224086)

Started my second attempt to upgrade Docker Desktop to the current version 4.7.1 and ran into the same issue once again. Docker won’t start, and none of the above fixes worked for me. The only solution was to revert to version 4.4.4 which works flawlessly.

Just for the record, in my case the file at %AppData%/Roaming/Docker/locked-directories was corrupt. Deleting it made Docker startup work again. The problem was mentioned in %AppData%/Roaming/Docker/log/hostcom.docker.backend.exe.log, it just took me a while to find this error message.

Purge the settings.json file C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Docker
CraignRush

removing settings.json worked for me.
even when running Docker desctop

Just for the record, in my case the file at %AppData%/Roaming/Docker/locked-directories was corrupt. Deleting it made Docker startup work again. The problem was mentioned in %AppData%/Roaming/Docker/log/hostcom.docker.backend.exe.log, it just took me a while to find this error message.

This worked for me

Purge the settings.json file C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Docker
CraignRush

removing settings.json worked for me. even when running Docker desctop

Same, I removed settings.json and locked-directories

Docker desktop is failing to start after upgrading to 4.9.1. I tried removing settings.json and locked-directories but nothing worked. Totally clueless as there is not relevant reason as why it is failing.

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Docker
and delete settings.json file. start docker desktop again

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Docker and delete settings.json file. start docker desktop again

As mentioned in my comment, it didn’t work. I upgraded to Docker Desktop 4.10.0 and it started working fine.

Started my second attempt to upgrade Docker Desktop to the current version 4.7.1 and ran into the same issue once again. Docker won’t start, and none of the above fixes worked for me. The only solution was to revert to version 4.4.4 which works flawlessly.

Upgraded to Docker Desktop 4.12.0 today and the application launches successfully. 🙌

This solved it for me.

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DockerCli.exe -SwitchDaemon

Did Docker start after you used this command ? Or did it take some time ? From what I’ve seen it takes between 30 min and 1 hour

I just downloaded it again and installed it on top of my current installation and it worked.

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