prior storage driver “aufs” failed: driver not supported Error starting daemon: error initializing graphdriver: driver not supported

Question

When a try to run docker locally in ubuntu 14.04 when i run this line in the console:

sudo docker -d 

The console show me this error:

Answer 1

Try removing all downloaded images:

sudo rm /var/lib/docker/aufs -rf

That helped me to recover docker after a kernel update.

Related issues on the github:

• https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/14026
• https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/15651