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sabrina2020
sabrina2020

Reputation: 2472

Docker: Error grabbing logs: invalid character '\x00' looking for beginning of value

I upgraded my Docker version to the latest one and I got this error:

error from daemon in stream: Error grabbing logs: invalid character '\x00' looking for beginning of value

I can’t read logs using:

docker-compose logs -f myservice

nor with:

docker logs -f 6f454c73ff9c

Output of Docker version:

Client:
 Version:      17.09.0-ce
 API version:  1.32
 Go version:   go1.8.3
 Git commit:   afdb6d4
 Built:        Tue Sep 26 22:42:18 2017
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Server:
 Version:      17.09.0-ce
 API version:  1.32 (minimum version 1.12)
 Go version:   go1.8.3
 Git commit:   afdb6d4
 Built:        Tue Sep 26 22:40:56 2017
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
 Experimental: false

Output of Docker info:

Containers: 11
 Running: 11
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 0
Images: 8
Server Version: 17.09.0-ce
Storage Driver: aufs
 Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Dirs: 76
 Dirperm1 Supported: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: bridge host macvlan null overlay
 Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 06b9cb35161009dcb7123345749fef02f7cea8e0
runc version: 3f2f8b84a77f73d38244dd690525642a72156c64
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
 apparmor
 seccomp
  Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.4.0-97-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 4
Total Memory: 7.695GiB
Name: egmintel-desktop
ID: VB22:IXWI:GY6D:QPM4:SPHX:HYUP:OQN7:ZM55:LLKE:P3UU:XK7F:26TH
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
 127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false

WARNING: No swap limit support
My docker-compose version:
docker-compose version 1.16.1, build 6d1ac21

I also noticed that one of my containers is not working properly (but I can't see the error since I can't read logs) and I need to restart the Docker service so my container starts working again.

Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks!

Upvotes: 51

Views: 97146

Answers (12)

Hieu Nguyen
Hieu Nguyen

Reputation: 119

You can use Portainer to see/copy/download the logs without errors. See my full guide here

Upvotes: 0

juliancmorales10
juliancmorales10

Reputation: 1

Rotate logs

Move the current log file to a backup file and restart Docker.

echo “Rotating the log file...”
sudo mv $LOG_PATH ${LOG_PATH}.bak
sudo systemctl restart docker

or

sudo service docker restart 
echo “Docker restarted and log file rotated.”

Upvotes: 0

DevTheJo
DevTheJo

Reputation: 2497

A workaround that work's : --tail=10 flag (or whatever number you like) to only get the lines after the "invalid" character.

docker logs --tail=10

it work also with docker compose

found here https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/140#issuecomment-374930251

Upvotes: 5

普拉斯
普拉斯

Reputation: 31

In Windows Delete this file, and restart containers

enter image description here

Upvotes: 3

RCG
RCG

Reputation: 246

you can clear your docker log with this:

cat /dev/null > $(docker inspect --format='{{.LogPath}}' YOUR_DOCKER_CONTAINER_NAME_HERE)

Upvotes: 6

None
None

Reputation: 81

This command will remove all \x00 bytes from all docker containers log files.

grep -r -l -a -P '\x00' /var/lib/docker/containers/ | xargs -I {} perl -pi -e 's/\x00//g' {}

Upvotes: 8

soufiane ELAMMARI
soufiane ELAMMARI

Reputation: 1029

Simply remove the ~/.docker/ directory.

Upvotes: 26

deathemperor
deathemperor

Reputation: 1446

I resolve this with docker compose by simply down it and up again

docker compose down
docker compose up -d

Upvotes: 56

yurenchen
yurenchen

Reputation: 2493

a workaroud may be clear the broken log file.
// the log still can be read (by cat or vim), just docker can't handle it

cmds

  • get log path
docker inspect --format='{{.LogPath}}' YOUR_CONTAINER
  • clear log
    before clear, backup it as you need
:> THE_LOG_PATH

https://stackoverflow.com/a/42510314/4896468

Upvotes: 15

mit
mit

Reputation: 1831

For windows you need delete json file with 0x00 bytes located in %USERPROFILE%\.docker\contexts folder and it's subdirs.

Upvotes: -1

RussColwell
RussColwell

Reputation: 61

Using windows Docker Desktop

Troubleshoot -> Reset to factory defaults

This fixed the issue for me.

Upvotes: 3

Nitin Dwivedi
Nitin Dwivedi

Reputation: 59

Looks like your events.log file got corrupted. Try deleting following file

  1. "/var/run/docker/libcontainerd/containerd/events.log"

  2. restart the docker through init.d

Upvotes: 5

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