Docker commands fails (in Windows)

Question

I am trying to use Docker on a windows machine and is hit with every possible issue it seems. My latest one is this: My machine is running but I can\'t seem to interact with

Answer 1

I have had this issue on a Windows 2016 machine. Happened because the docker service wasn't started. In my case the docker service as failing with the following error

fatal: Error starting daemon: pid file found, ensure docker is not running or delete C:\ProgramData\docker.pid

Deleting the C:\ProgramData\docker.pid file did the trick.

Answer 2

For me, this error was resolved after I removed daemon.json file in "%programdata%\docker\config"

The content in my daemon.json is the following:

{
  "hosts": ["tcp://0.0.0.0:2375"]
}

I created this manually as part of some testing. But after I restarted the server, I started to get the error in this question.

Answer 3

I had the same issue on my Windows 10. Find below what I did to solve it:

After installing Docker, Just restart your PC, run docker application (It may require enabling Hyper-V), then open command line and type: docker run hello-world

Everything works fine :)

Answer 4

To start default host in windows I know three ways given below you can use one of them.

1. Starting or restarting already created a default machine by the Docker:

   docker-machine start default
   docker-machine restart default
   

   Now check docker-machine env

2. The following environment properties need to be set:

   set DOCKER_CERT_PATH=%USERPROFILE%\.docker\machine\machines\default
   set DOCKER_HOST=tcp://192.168.99.100:2376
   set DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME=default
   set DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1
   

3. To create a new machine using the following command:

Windows 10/HyperV:

docker-machine create --driver hyperv default
docker-machine create -d hyperv default

Mac, Linux, windows 7 & 8:

docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default
docker-machine create -d virtualbox default

Answer 5

I run into this problem when using docker-machine and I haven't run the docker-machine env command after rebooting. I'm not sure how to do this in cmd.exe, but if you're using powershell try issuing this command:

docker-machine env --shell=powershell | Invoke-Expression

Answer 6

I solved this error by run the {DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH}start.sh in bash.