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

I had the same problem after a kernel update that removed the AUFS driver. What fixed it was:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-`uname -r` && sudo modprobe aufs

If future updates break the driver again, bundle the command with your update:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && apt-get -y install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r) aufs-tools

For differences between apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade, see Why use apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get dist-upgrade?.