Docker service does not start

Question

docker is gigving me a hard time currently. I followed these instructions in order to install docker on my virtual server running Ubuntu 14.04 hosted by strato.de.

Answer 1

You need to start docker

sudo start docker

and then

sudo docker run hello-world

I faced same problem on ubuntu 14.04, solved.

refer comment of Nino-K https://github.com/docker-library/hello-world/issues/3