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

I had a similar issue on a new Docker installation (version 19.03.3-rc1) on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. By default /etc/docker/daemon.json file does not exist on a new installation. Following a tutorial I changed the storage driver to devicemapper by creating a new daemon.json file. It worked but then I deleted the daemon.json file thinking that it would revert to the default but that did not work and the service would not start.

Creating the /etc/docker/daemon.json file again with the default storage driver fixed it for me.

{
    "storage-driver": "overlay2"
}