Hi, i just bought my Debian 9 VPS,followed the tutorial to install docker and tried to run my docker project. But firstly i got this error:
INFO[2021-06-04T15:55:01.566710794Z] Starting up
failed to start daemon: pid file found, ensure docker is not running or delete /var/run/docker.pid
I deleted the PID file and then this error came:
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.559081445Z] Starting up
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.561387278Z] parsed scheme: "unix" module=grpc
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.561516232Z] scheme "unix" not registered, fallback to default scheme module=grpc
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.561653000Z] ccResolverWrapper: sending update to cc: {[{unix:///run/containerd/containerd.sock 0 <nil>}] <nil>} module=grpc
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.561728791Z] ClientConn switching balancer to "pick_first" module=grpc
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.563173017Z] parsed scheme: "unix" module=grpc
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.563257881Z] scheme "unix" not registered, fallback to default scheme module=grpc
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.563334916Z] ccResolverWrapper: sending update to cc: {[{unix:///run/containerd/containerd.sock 0 <nil>}] <nil>} module=grpc
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.563401769Z] ClientConn switching balancer to "pick_first" module=grpc
INFO[2021-06-04T15:53:13.569060266Z] [graphdriver] using prior storage driver: overlay2
failed to start daemon: error while opening volume store metadata database: timeout
Both command were launched with sudo dockerd.
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Hi there,
When checking the status of the Docker daemon does it report back as running:
systemctl status docker
If not, does it start after a restart:
sudo systemctl restart docker
If you still get the error you could try killing the Docker process and then try to start it again:
ps axf | grep docker | grep -v grep | awk '{print "kill -9 " $1}' | sudo sh
To start it run:
sudo systemctl start docker
Feel free to share the output of the commands here if this still does not work.
Regards, Bobby
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