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?
asked Aug 9, 2020 at 19:38
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Restarting Docker Desktop for Windows helped me. You can do that by right-click on tray icon and selecting restart.
answered Jan 2, 2021 at 23:19
JanBrusJanBrus
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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.
answered Feb 5, 2021 at 5:31
Dhruv MehtaDhruv Mehta
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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 runwsl --shutdown
- Start Docker Desktop and press
Restart
on the notification below
(It should pop up in a few seconds)
answered Oct 17, 2022 at 13:35
Michiel PaterMichiel Pater
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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.
answered Mar 18, 2021 at 16:34
questionto42questionto42
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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.
answered Aug 27, 2022 at 23:09
supernovasupernova
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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.
answered Aug 13, 2020 at 10:09
Try running the below commands in the Powershell and start the docker
Net stop com.docker.service
And then
Net start com.docker.service
Tyler2P
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answered Apr 1, 2021 at 10:27
Tried a lot of things.
Helped:
- Close Docker.
- Start Docker as administrator.
answered Nov 19, 2022 at 2:58
Try to add the folder with your project in Settings -> Resources -> File Sharing
. And click the button Apply & Restart
answered Jan 20, 2021 at 20:22
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
tnwei
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answered Feb 7, 2022 at 11:14
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
answered Jan 24 at 11:55
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
answered Jan 30 at 2:32
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
answered Feb 2 at 5:17
0
I have my cloudflare WARP running that was causing this issue I just toggled it off and it worked.
answered Sep 18, 2021 at 15:16
I updated docker to the latest version. Error has gone.
answered Oct 14, 2021 at 11:59
Nikita KoksharovNikita Koksharov
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WSL 2 Installation was incomplete. After doing a ‘restart’ on Docker, it prompted me to get the Linux Kernel installed.
answered May 19, 2022 at 1:10
1
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.
answered Oct 12, 2022 at 5:02
Purging data of HYPER-V, WSL 2 and Windows Containers did the trick for me. Purge data section is in troubleshooting.
answered Jan 26 at 8:52
1
Error is resolved with latest Docker for Windows release 4.16.3 from 30. of January 2023.
Check here for details.
answered Jan 31 at 8:17
HrvojeHrvoje
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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.
helvete
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answered Jan 25 at 15:44
In my case, only a clean re-installation helped unfortunately.
Caution: This will remove all local docker images and you’ll have to rebuild them. Be aware that any files, any data in databases or data stored in REDIS services that «live» in your local docker containers are deleted by this approach. So you should consider it only if the other answers given to this questions do not work and you’re able to restore the data from a backup!
The following steps give you a fresh, clean start with Docker:
- Uninstall docker desktop via Windows
«Programs and Features» > «Uninstall or change a program» - Delete the «Docker» folder in the %AppData% directory (which is usually «C:\Users\YOURPROFILE\AppData\Roaming»),
and also «.docker» in C:\Users\YOURPROFILE (as suggested here) - Restart Windows
- Download latest docker desktop from https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/ and install it (run «Docker Desktop Installer.exe» from Admin shell)
A few additional hints:
- It might not always be necessary to delete the folders (step 2), but it guarantees you start really with a fresh installation with factory settings
- During the installation Docker asks (and recommends) to enable WSL2. In my case, I found that was causing the troubles I had — so I installed it again with this option disabled (note while you can disable it in the docker settings that didn’t help in my case, I really had to disable it during installation).
Before I did that, Docker stopped working again the next day when I turned on my PC. I could not find out why WSL2 was blocking the start up of Docker, but that workaround helped me — using Hyper-V instead.
Note that some docker images require WSL2. In that case you can re-enable it again via Docker’s context menu’s settings «General». Before you do that, check if you need to repare WSL2 (as this might prevent Docker from starting) — repair it, then enable WSL2 in Docker.
answered Feb 22 at 7:21
MattMatt
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I had to try a combination of the suggestions listed here. Also, I couldn’t shutdown Docker Desktop.
Powershell running as admin:
cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"
./DockerCli.exe -SwitchLinuxEngine
wsl --shutdown
Get-Process *docker* | Stop-Process
Then I started everything back up and it came to life.
answered May 23 at 7:28
In my case it has been a line ending issue.
Some time ago I struggled with problems because of shellscripts containing CRLF.
So I’ve added «autocrlf=false» to .git/config in the project.
Later I manually set LF in Dockerfiles and yml because I thought «should be so».
This also resulted in not found / EOF messages for docker_engine in my Docker Desktop (Windows) and setting CRLF again in these files fixed the issue.
answered Aug 21 at 12:56
GunnarGunnar
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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»
answered Aug 12, 2022 at 2:57
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Comments
- [-] I have tried with the latest version of my channel (Stable or Edge)
- [-] I have uploaded Diagnostics
- Diagnostics ID: 5A6A4A75-D577-4F37-B871-D9230771DB4B/20190804125911
Expected behavior
running docker successfully
Actual behavior
docker stuck at docker is running
docker version will print
‘error during connect: Get http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdocker_engine/v1.40/version: open //./pipe/docker_engine: The system cannot find the file specified. In the default daemon configuration on Windows, the docker client must be run elevated to connect. This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running’
After a long time, the error window jump out and the error msg change to
‘Error response from daemon: i/o timeout’
Information
- Windows Version:
Windows 10 pro 19.03
CPU: AMD Ryzen 1700X
RAM: 32GB - Docker Desktop Version:
Docker Desktop for Windows, 2.1.0.0(36874)
channel: stable
Steps to reproduce the behavior
- Enable Hyper-V feature
- install Docker Desktop, choose Linux container
I did nothing else
and the Docker.Service process is running
Furthermore, uninstalling it will stuck at ‘remove vm and images’
reset to factory defaults
is useless for me
mikeparker
changed the title
cannot start docker
Cannot start docker — Error response from daemon: i/o timeout
Aug 6, 2019
Same issue here, Fresh install of Win 10 Enterprise 1903, current updates.
For me running a docker desktop, as an administrator solved the issue.
Also trying to setup Docker Desktop and after getting issue #4393 I resolved that error with the steps provided by @rezapci Now I am getting the same i/o time out error.
Error response from daemon: i/o timeout
bei Docker.Backend.DockerDaemonChecker.Check(Func`1 isDaemonProcessStillRunning)
bei Docker.Backend.BackendNamedPipeServer.<Run>b__8_4(Object[] args)
bei Docker.Core.Pipe.NamedPipeServer.<>c__DisplayClass9_0.<Register>b__0(Object[] parameters)
bei Docker.Core.Pipe.NamedPipeServer.RunAction(String action, Object[] parameters)
Running Server 2019 VM
EDIT: Build 1809
4 CPUs
18G RAM.
Hyper-V and Containers feature installed.
Turned off Windows Defender and Firewall.
same ! any solution guys ?
Same issue after last update. After trying various recommendations w/o much success I just tried to uninstall Docker Desktop, then rebooted the machine to get rid of any potential leftovers and finally installed the current stable 2.1.0.5 from scratch again. Works for me, but that whole issue should be really investigated and fixed.
Oh, and I also cleaned the C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\Docker
folder manually.
Same problem on Windows server 2019.
PS C:\windows\system32> Get-ComputerInfo|select windowsversion
WindowsVersion
1809
PS C:\windows\system32> docker images ls
Error response from daemon: i/o timeout
PS C:\windows\system32> docker network ls
Error response from daemon: i/o timeout
PS C:\windows\system32> docker —version
Docker version 19.03.5, build 633a0ea
PS C:\windows\system32> docker run hello-world
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe: Error response from daemon: i/o timeout.
See ‘C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe run —help’.
Below steps helped me:
1. Open "Window Security"
2. Open "App & Browser control"
3. Click "Exploit protection settings" at the bottom
4. Switch to "Program settings" tab
5. Locate "C:\WINDOWS\System32\vmcompute.exe" in the list and expand it
6. Click "Edit"
7. Scroll down to "Code flow guard (CFG)" and uncheck "Override system settings"
8. Delete all files from C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\Docker
9. Start vmcompute from powershell "net start vmcompute"
reference 3597 and @Jens-G’s comment
@sagar-sonawane-007 this did not resolve my case. I have encountered the same problem, however while building a Docker image. It began after i interrupted (CTRL + C) a docker build mid-way, and later attempted to build it again.
Also, to avoid future confusion, it is «Control flow guard (CFG)». Code flow guard is different thing.
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Below steps helped me:
1. Open "Window Security" 2. Open "App & Browser control" 3. Click "Exploit protection settings" at the bottom 4. Switch to "Program settings" tab 5. Locate "C:\WINDOWS\System32\vmcompute.exe" in the list and expand it 6. Click "Edit" 7. Scroll down to "Code flow guard (CFG)" and uncheck "Override system settings" 8. Delete all files from C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\Docker 9. Start vmcompute from powershell "net start vmcompute"
reference 3597 and @Jens-G’s comment
worked for me.
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Oct 13, 2020
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?
asked Aug 9, 2020 at 19:38
1
Restarting Docker Desktop for Windows helped me. You can do that by right-click on tray icon and selecting restart.
answered Jan 2, 2021 at 23:19
JanBrusJanBrus
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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.
answered Feb 5, 2021 at 5:31
Dhruv MehtaDhruv Mehta
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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 runwsl --shutdown
- Start Docker Desktop and press
Restart
on the notification below
(It should pop up in a few seconds)
answered Oct 17, 2022 at 13:35
Michiel PaterMichiel Pater
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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.
answered Mar 18, 2021 at 16:34
questionto42questionto42
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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.
answered Aug 27, 2022 at 23:09
supernovasupernova
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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.
answered Aug 13, 2020 at 10:09
Try running the below commands in the Powershell and start the docker
Net stop com.docker.service
And then
Net start com.docker.service
Tyler2P
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answered Apr 1, 2021 at 10:27
Tried a lot of things.
Helped:
- Close Docker.
- Start Docker as administrator.
answered Nov 19, 2022 at 2:58
Try to add the folder with your project in Settings -> Resources -> File Sharing
. And click the button Apply & Restart
answered Jan 20, 2021 at 20:22
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
tnwei
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answered Feb 7, 2022 at 11:14
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
answered Jan 24 at 11:55
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
answered Jan 30 at 2:32
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
answered Feb 2 at 5:17
0
I have my cloudflare WARP running that was causing this issue I just toggled it off and it worked.
answered Sep 18, 2021 at 15:16
I updated docker to the latest version. Error has gone.
answered Oct 14, 2021 at 11:59
Nikita KoksharovNikita Koksharov
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WSL 2 Installation was incomplete. After doing a ‘restart’ on Docker, it prompted me to get the Linux Kernel installed.
answered May 19, 2022 at 1:10
1
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.
answered Oct 12, 2022 at 5:02
Purging data of HYPER-V, WSL 2 and Windows Containers did the trick for me. Purge data section is in troubleshooting.
answered Jan 26 at 8:52
1
Error is resolved with latest Docker for Windows release 4.16.3 from 30. of January 2023.
Check here for details.
answered Jan 31 at 8:17
HrvojeHrvoje
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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.
helvete
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answered Jan 25 at 15:44
In my case, only a clean re-installation helped unfortunately.
Caution: This will remove all local docker images and you’ll have to rebuild them. Be aware that any files, any data in databases or data stored in REDIS services that «live» in your local docker containers are deleted by this approach. So you should consider it only if the other answers given to this questions do not work and you’re able to restore the data from a backup!
The following steps give you a fresh, clean start with Docker:
- Uninstall docker desktop via Windows
«Programs and Features» > «Uninstall or change a program» - Delete the «Docker» folder in the %AppData% directory (which is usually «C:\Users\YOURPROFILE\AppData\Roaming»),
and also «.docker» in C:\Users\YOURPROFILE (as suggested here) - Restart Windows
- Download latest docker desktop from https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/ and install it (run «Docker Desktop Installer.exe» from Admin shell)
A few additional hints:
- It might not always be necessary to delete the folders (step 2), but it guarantees you start really with a fresh installation with factory settings
- During the installation Docker asks (and recommends) to enable WSL2. In my case, I found that was causing the troubles I had — so I installed it again with this option disabled (note while you can disable it in the docker settings that didn’t help in my case, I really had to disable it during installation).
Before I did that, Docker stopped working again the next day when I turned on my PC. I could not find out why WSL2 was blocking the start up of Docker, but that workaround helped me — using Hyper-V instead.
Note that some docker images require WSL2. In that case you can re-enable it again via Docker’s context menu’s settings «General». Before you do that, check if you need to repare WSL2 (as this might prevent Docker from starting) — repair it, then enable WSL2 in Docker.
answered Feb 22 at 7:21
MattMatt
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I had to try a combination of the suggestions listed here. Also, I couldn’t shutdown Docker Desktop.
Powershell running as admin:
cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"
./DockerCli.exe -SwitchLinuxEngine
wsl --shutdown
Get-Process *docker* | Stop-Process
Then I started everything back up and it came to life.
answered May 23 at 7:28
In my case it has been a line ending issue.
Some time ago I struggled with problems because of shellscripts containing CRLF.
So I’ve added «autocrlf=false» to .git/config in the project.
Later I manually set LF in Dockerfiles and yml because I thought «should be so».
This also resulted in not found / EOF messages for docker_engine in my Docker Desktop (Windows) and setting CRLF again in these files fixed the issue.
answered Aug 21 at 12:56
GunnarGunnar
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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»
answered Aug 12, 2022 at 2:57
2
If you are also encountering an i/o timeout error like following then this post can help you resolve it.
Error response from daemon: Get https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/library/hello-world/manifests/latest: Get https://auth.docker.io/token?account={your account name here}&scope=repository%3Alibrary%2Fhello-world%3Apull&service=registry.docker.io: dial tcp: lookup auth.docker.io on 192.168.65.1:53: read udp 192.168.65.3:58528->192.168.65.1:53: i/o timeout.
See ‘docker run –help’.
I also faced this error while running hello world container with Docker on my Windows machine.
Here dare the steps I took to resolve this issue.
Open Docker setting by doing right click on Docker icon in system tray.
In settings window go to Network tab and change the DNS server from Automatic to Fixed.
Apply the changes. Docker service will restart and you should be able to pull the docker images without any issues now.
- Docker
Are you trying to find a solution for the docker error response from daemon i/o timeout? We can help you with it.
Here at Bobcares, we have seen several causes for this error while troubleshooting Docker issues as part of our Docker Hosting Support for Docker users, web hosts, and online service providers.
Today we’ll take a look at the cause for this error and how to fix it.
What causes Docker Error response from daemon I/O timeout to occur
In older versions of dockers, this error occurs due to the DNS issue.
In newer versions of docker, this error occurs due to issue in network infrastructure and is likely the product of latency between the client and the registry.
Here, we need to make sure that there are no proxies in between the client and the registry. Also, the two must be geographically close.
How we fix Docker Error response from daemon I/O timeout
Now let’s see the solution part of this error.
1. DNS Server issue
One of our customers received the below error in the Windows machine.
Error response from daemon: Get https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/library/hello-world/manifests/latest: Get https://auth.docker.io/token?account={your account name here}&scope=repository%3Alibrary%2Fhello-world%3Apull&service=registry.docker.io: dial tcp: lookup auth.docker.io on 192.168.xx.x:5x: read udp 192.168.xx.x:5xxxx->192.168.xx.x:5x: i/o timeout.
See ‘docker run –help’.
Here are the steps our Support Engineers provided to resolve this error.
1. First, right-click on the Docker icon to open Docker Settings.
2. Next, click on the Network tab and change the DNS server from Automatic to Fixed.
3. Finally, click on the Apply button to apply the changes.
Now, the Docker service will restart and must be able to pull the docker images without any issues now.
2. Proxy issue
In another case, the customer was trying to download a docker image using the below command,
sudo docker run hello-world
Since he didn’t have a direct connection and the proxy server was configured in .bashrc file, he was receiving the below error.
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
docker: Error response from daemon: Get https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/: dial tcp: lookup registry-1.docker.io on 192.168.xx.xx:53: read udp 192.168.xx.xx:38062->192.168.xx.xx:53: i/o timeout.
See 'docker run --help'.
Below are the steps our Engineers provided to resolve this error.
In the above error, the docker proxy must be configured separately. For that, create a new folder /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d and create a file http-proxy.conf inside it using the below commands.
mkdir /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d
cat > /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf
After that, insert the below proxy information in the file and replace <ip> to your proxy IPs. (make use of vi text editor as well)
[Service]
Environment="HTTP_PROXY=<ip>:808"
Environment="HTTPS_PROXY=<ip>:808"
Environment="NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"
After file configuration, reload docker daemon and restart docker service using the below command.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart docker
Finally, now the image download must be successful. You can use docker ps -a check the container information.
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Conclusion
In short, this Docker Error response from daemon I/O timeout mainly occurs due to either DNS error or network infrastructure issue. Today, we saw the solution to this error.
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