Docker error: client and server don't have same version

Question

Since I just updated Docker to 1.1.0 I get:

Error response from daemon: client and server don\'t have same version (client : 1.13, server: 1.12)

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Answer 1

This can happen if you have updated Docker, but the service has not been restarted. You will then try to connect to the Docker daemon with the updated client, while the daemon (that was already running before the update) is still running the older version.

To fix this, restart the service:

sysV init:

service docker restart

systemd:

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl restart docker