I needed space and executed: docker rmi $(docker images -f "dangling=true" -q)
Since then I can't with docker-compose: docker-compose build, I get the error: ERROR: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): unexpected EOF.
I tried to remove all images, reinstall docker, but nothing will do: always the same error, after quite some time.
I built on another system and it worked, which suggests that this is a wrong-state issue.
Any idea what I should clean?
Using:
There is an built in command to remove unused images (Version 1.13+):
docker image prune Now to handle the situation:
Stop Docker Service
systemctl stop docker Backup /var/lib/docker then:
Remove /var/lib/docker Caution: This will remove images, containers, volumes, ... make sure you back it up first.
rm -rf /var/lib/docker Start Docker service
systemctl start docker Update:
As noted in the other answer, In somecases it might be file permissions issue. Please review permissions.
I had the same issue and the approved answer didn't work for me.
Turns out I had a file with permissions which didn't allow the user running docker-compose to read it. After removing the file everything was OK
For me the issue turned out that a Docker Pull was hung, so I CTRL+C'd out of it and tried again. Same error message.
In the end I found some files owned by root in this directory. Giving the files proper permissions fixed the issue.
chown -R <username>:<group> /var/lib/docker/tmp
If you have tried looking through permissions, docker reset, docker system prune, deleting all containers, deleting all images (dangling or otherwise), reading about everything that there is surrounding this issue and have had no success. Try uninstalling docker and re-installing the stable version.
Although, the error I was struggling with was : Error processing tar file(exit status 1): mkdir /some/path/name: no such file or directory
Try increasing the memory for Docker, it fixed the issue for me.
Docker memory setting in Preferences was set to 2GB, so when pulling the ~3GB image, I was getting exactly this error:
$ docker pull skymindops/skil-ce latest: Pulling from skymindops/skil-ce 118c5f2883d6: Pull complete 3d199b2e6224: Extracting [==================================================>] 2.902GB/2.902GB failed to register layer: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): unexpected EOF Increasing the memory limit fixed it (I also increased the swap, but unsure was it required or not).