Get "http://unix.sock/info": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: no such file or directory

[slutske22]

I recently udpated my docker to v23.0.5 on mac OSX Ventura 13.4 (Intel chip). After doing so, and running ctop, I get the daemon erroring out with this message:

 Get "http://unix.sock/info": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: no such file or directory     

Docker is running and the docker command is available. Its true that there is no docker.sock at /var/run/docker.sock, despite the docker docs saying so.

I did manage to find a docker.sock at Users/sethlutske/.docker/run/docker.sock, so I set the environment variable export DOCKER_HOST=/Users/sethlutske/.docker/run/docker.sock as recommended in the docs, but then running ctop gives me another error:

Get "tcp:///Users/sethlutske/.docker/run/docker.sock/info": unsupported protocol scheme "tcp"

Did I miss something here? Is the new docker.sock not the same as the old one that ctop expects? And why is it in a different location than where the docker docs say it should be? How can I get ctop to work with docker v23 using its customization options?

[slutske22]

As I suspected, this is not an issue with ctop so much as it is an update with docker. The solution to this can be found here: https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/17905/ctop-does-not-work-with-latest-version-of-docker-get-http-unix-sock-info-d. For the lazy:

This is probably because Docker Desktop version 4.18+ doesn't create the default Docker socket /var/run/docker.sock anymore.

The reasoning is on the official docs: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/mac/permission-requirements/

If you want to have the default socket back, you should open your Docker Desktop, go to Settings -> Advanced -> Allow the default Docker socket to be used and press Apply & restart.