Unable to start Docker Service in Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I\'ve been trying to use Docker (1.10) on Ubuntu 16.04 but installation fails because Docker Service doesn\'t start. I\'ve already tried to

Answer 1

After viewing some of the other answers it looks like the issue was that the service wasn't running with the -s overlay options.

I also happened to notice that docker tried to start up with ${DOCKER_OPTS} at the end of the call.

I was able to export DOCKER_OPTS="-s overlay" (bc by default DOCKER_OPTS was empty) and get docker running.