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Posted on June 14, 2014

I was trying to run “docker -d” command to start docker service and install dokku by myself, but I got an error message. Any idea? Thanks!

Environment: Ubuntu+Nginx+RoR+Unicorn

Error Message: <pre> [2758c589] +job serveapi(unix:///var/run/docker.sock) [2758c589] +job initserver() [2758c589.initserver()] Creating server [2758c589] +job init_networkdriver() 2014/06/14 02:19:41 Listening for HTTP on unix (/var/run/docker.sock) [2758c589] -job init_networkdriver() = OK (0) 2014/06/14 02:19:41 WARNING: Your kernel does not support cgroup swap limit. Error loading docker apparmor profile: exec: “/sbin/apparmor_parser”: stat /sbin/apparmor_parser: no such file or directory () [2758c589] -job initserver() = ERR (1) 2014/06/14 02:19:41 Error loading docker apparmor profile: exec: “/sbin/apparmor_parser”: stat /sbin/apparmor_parser: no such file or directory () </pre>



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This error is because the file <code>/sbin/apparmor_parser</code> is missing: <pre> 2014/06/14 02:19:41 Error loading docker apparmor profile: exec: “/sbin/apparmor_parser”: stat /sbin/apparmor_parser: no such file or directory () </pre> That command is provided by the apparmor package. Please ensure it is installed: <pre> sudo apt-get install apparmor </pre>

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kitto@kitto-OptiPlex-3020 ~ $ sudo docker -d INFO[0000] +job serveapi(unix:///var/run/docker.sock)

INFO[0000] Listening for HTTP on unix (/var/run/docker.sock) INFO[0000] +job initnetworkdriver()

INFO[0000] -job initnetworkdriver() = OK (0)

INFO[0000] WARNING: Your kernel does not support cgroup swap limit.

Solution:

sudo apt-get install apparmor

​ kitto@kitto-OptiPlex-3020 ~ $sudo service docker start

docker start/running, process 20306 kitto@kitto-OptiPlex-3020 ~ $ sudo service docker restart docker stop/waiting docker start/running, process 20366 kitto@kitto-OptiPlex-3020 ~ $ ps aux | grep docker

root 20366 0.5 0.1 329880 8348 ? Ssl 13:48 0:00 /usr/bin/docker -d kitto 20426 0.0 0.0 13424 916 pts/9 S+ 13:48 0:00 grep --colour=auto docker

Problem is solved!

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