Error: “error creating aufs mount to” when building dockerfile

Question

I get this error when I try to build a docker file

 error creating aufs mount to /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt   
 /6c1b42ce1a98b1c0f2d2a7f17c196221445f1054566065         


        

Answer 1

I just had a similar issue on Lubuntu (Ubuntu 4.15.0-20-generic) with Docker CE 18.03. None of the described options helped.

It appears that latest docker versions use the overlay2 storage driver. However some applications require aufs. Thus a possible fix might be to simply use this docker guide to change the storage driver to aufs (simply replace "overlay2" with "aufs") as in this guide.