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dockerdocker-for-windows
Jeet
Jeet

Reputation: 5659

Docker failed to initialize

I am trying to install the Docker community edition for windows, the installation was successful and it asked me to logout and login again and I did same. But when I tried to start the docker it says -

A task was canceled. at Docker.Core.Pipe.NamedPipeClient.Send(String action, Object[] parameters) at Docker.WPF.BackendClient.Version() at Docker.Program.Run(IReadOnlyCollection`1 args)

It is giving me below options -

Docker Error

Any help or pointers will really helpful.

Upvotes: 60

Views: 76152

Answers (10)

evDev02
evDev02

Reputation: 11

Just remove: C:\Users%user%\AppData\Roaming\Docker\locked-directories C:\Users%user%\AppData\Roaming\Docker\settings.json

then restart your machine, which would solve the problem.

Upvotes: 1

Sridharan D
Sridharan D

Reputation: 77

I got this issue recently (10-10-2023). To fix this issue, open this folder: C:\Users\{Your-machine-User-Name}\AppData\Roaming\Docker, where you can find the settings.json file, Delete that file and restart your PC. This method work for me.

Upvotes: 1

Carlos
Carlos

Reputation: 5052

I just uninstalled/installed docker and that solved all the issues

Upvotes: 0

Сергей Амброзиев
Сергей Амброзиев

Reputation: 11

i didn't find correct solutions here, even though it's the first page of google, just do the following:

  1. Go to C:\Users%user%\AppData\Roaming\Docker
  2. Delete file locked-directories

Profit!

Hope this helps a lot.

Upvotes: 1

Lucas Venezian Povoa
Lucas Venezian Povoa

Reputation: 569

I had a similar issues generated by the following error described in the C:\Users\<myuser>\AppData\Local\Docker\log.txt:

[12:35:12.988][GUI               ][Warning] Failed to configure docker scan: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: O acesso ao caminho 'C:\Users\<myuser>\.docker\scan\config.json' foi negado.
   em System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

To solve that I just dropped the folder located at C:\Users\<myuser>\.docker and run the Docker Desktop again.

Upvotes: 2

Shubham Gorlewar
Shubham Gorlewar

Reputation: 424

Just Remove all files under this paths:

C:\Users[USER]\AppData\Local\Docker
C:\Users[USER]\AppData\Roaming\Docker
C:\Users[USER]\AppData\Roaming\Docker Desktop

Once deleted, I didn’t have to do anything else, Docker Desktop started booting up as normal.

Upvotes: 19

Gokce Demir
Gokce Demir

Reputation: 675

Deleting C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Docker folder also resolved my issue.

Upvotes: 21

Anil Kumar
Anil Kumar

Reputation: 1626

Just need to delete the files in C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Docker fixed it

Upvotes: 161

Jayesh Mann
Jayesh Mann

Reputation: 306

Proxy was the culprit in my case:

In the log file in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Docker,

[11:43:09.152][GoBackendProcess ][Error ] msg=“while parsing JSON from C:\Users[USER]\AppData\Roaming\Docker\settings.json: json: cannot unmarshal bool into Go struct field Content.proxyHttpMode of type string”

Open %APPDATA%\Docker\settings.json

I removed all settings lines related to proxy, and the service started fine.

Alternatively, you can delete the following directories:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Docker
%APPDATA%\Docker
%APPDATA%\Docker Desktop

Upvotes: 4

Jeet
Jeet

Reputation: 5659

I did finally solve the problem and the solution was to restart the machine, which was not properly documented in the official site. As per the site -

Install

Double-click InstallDocker.msi to run the installer.

When the installation finishes, Docker starts automatically. The whale in the notification area indicates that Docker is running, and accessible from a terminal. Run

Open a command-line terminal like PowerShell, and try out some Docker commands!

Run docker version to check the version.

Run docker run hello-world to verify that Docker can pull and run images.

However it needs a restart to enable virtualization, simply logging off and login again did not work for me as directed by the wizard. Most of the problems related to docker gets resolved by restarting the docker some of the common problems and the resolutions are as follows

  • Docker not starting in windows or not working properly
    • Change it to Linux containers
  • Make sure that docker is installed on machine
  • Make sure virtualization is enabled and docker starts successfully

Upvotes: 8

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