Keeps asking for passphrase and password on Win 8.1

[clns]

I'm unable to run any docker commands because it cannot connect to the target machine.

$ docker version
Client version: 1.7.0
Client API version: 1.19
Go version (client): go1.4.2
Git commit (client): 0baf609
OS/Arch (client): windows/amd64
Get http://127.0.0.1:2375/v1.19/version: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: ConnectEx tcp: No connection could be made because the
 target machine actively refused it.. Are you trying to connect to a TLS-enabled daemon without TLS?

Here is the verbose output from some commands like boot2docker.exe -v init|up|ip|shellinit and docker version. You can see it asks for a passphrase and password sometimes 3-4 times, and the docker command is not connecting to the server.

I tried everything I could:

• removed Host-only Networks from VirtualBox -> Preferences -> Network
• reinstalled Virtual Box and boot2docker v1.7.0 from here
• deleted $HOME/.boot2docker and $HOME/.ssh/id_boot2docker[.pub]
• checked that host port 2022 is forwarded to 22 on guest, in VirtualBox for boot2docker-vm
• restarted Windows many times
• I'm running PowerShell as Administrator, but I also tried without administrator

Nothing helped. At this point I completely exhausted all the options.

[josephpage]

Hey,
Is docker --tlsverify=false version working ?

[clns]

Doesn't look like (boot2docker-vm is currently running):

D:\> docker --tlsverify=false version
Client version: 1.7.0
Client API version: 1.19
Go version (client): go1.4.2
Git commit (client): 0baf609
OS/Arch (client): windows/amd64
An error occurred trying to connect: Get https://127.0.0.1:2375/v1.19/version: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: ConnectEx tcp: N
o connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

I'm able to ssh into the VM though, after I hit ENTER for passphrase and type tcuser for pwd:

D:\> boot2docker.exe ssh
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker':
docker@localhost's password: [typed tcuser]
                        ##         .
                  ## ## ##        ==
               ## ## ## ## ##    ===
           /"""""""""""""""""\___/ ===
      ~~~ {~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~ /  ===- ~~~
           \______ o           __/
             \    \         __/
              \____\_______/
 _                 _   ____     _            _
| |__   ___   ___ | |_|___ \ __| | ___   ___| | _____ _ __
| '_ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| __) / _` |/ _ \ / __| |/ / _ \ '__|
| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ / __/ (_| | (_) | (__|   <  __/ |
|_.__/ \___/ \___/ \__|_____\__,_|\___/ \___|_|\_\___|_|
Boot2Docker version 1.7.0, build master : 7960f90 - Thu Jun 18 18:31:45 UTC 2015
Docker version 1.7.0, build 0baf609
docker@boot2docker:~$

[josephpage]

Mmm, your env variables are not set properly for Windows, so docker client try to connect to 127.0.0.1:2375 instead of 192.166.59.103:2375.

Try in Powershell :

$Env:DOCKER_HOST = "tcp://192.168.59.103:2376"
$Env:DOCKER_CERT_PATH = "C:\Users\Calin\.boot2docker\certs\boot2docker-vm"
$Env:DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY = "1"

[clns]

This is very weird, I set those vars as mentioned and absolutely no change:

D:\> echo $env:DOCKER_HOST $env:DOCKER_CERT_PATH $env:DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY
tcp://192.168.59.103:2376
C:\Users\Calin\.boot2docker\certs\boot2docker-vm
1
D:\> boot2docker.exe shellinit
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker':
docker@localhost's password: [typed tcuser]
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker':
docker@localhost's password: [typed tcuser]
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker':
docker@localhost's password: [typed tcuser]
Writing C:\Users\Calin\.boot2docker\certs\boot2docker-vm\ca.pem
Writing C:\Users\Calin\.boot2docker\certs\boot2docker-vm\cert.pem
Writing C:\Users\Calin\.boot2docker\certs\boot2docker-vm\key.pem
Your environment variables are already set correctly.

Also I tried boot2docker -v stop|start, I get the exact same output as in the original comment.

[josephpage]

Weird.
A last try : docker -H tcp://192.168.59.103:2376 --tlsverify=false ps
Look at this fix and the thread too.

[clns]

Thanks, the last try worked 😄 , and also this fix you pointed to. Now docker works correctly. I had to manually stop the VM from the VirtualBox GUI, then start it as usual from cli.

However it still asks me about 4 times for a passphrase and password, but at least it works. Thanks so much!

D:\> boot2docker.exe -v up
Boot2Docker-cli version: v1.7.0
Git commit: 7d89508
2015/06/24 17:08:27 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe showvminfo boot2docker-vm --machineread
able
2015/06/24 17:08:27 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe guestproperty set boot2docker-vm /Virtu
alBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountPrefix /
2015/06/24 17:08:28 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe guestproperty set boot2docker-vm /Virtu
alBox/GuestAdd/SharedFolders/MountDir /
2015/06/24 17:08:28 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe sharedfolder add boot2docker-vm --name
c/Users --hostpath C:\Users --automount
VBoxManage.exe: error: Shared folder named 'c/Users' already exists
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80bb000c), component SessionMachine, interface IMachine, ca
llee IUnknown
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "CreateSharedFolder(Bstr(name).raw(), Bstr(hostpath).raw(), fWritable, fAutoMount)" at l
ine 1015 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
2015/06/24 17:08:28 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe setextradata boot2docker-vm VBoxInterna
l2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/c/Users 1
2015/06/24 17:08:28 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe startvm boot2docker-vm --type headless
Waiting for VM "boot2docker-vm" to power on...
VM "boot2docker-vm" has been successfully started.
2015/06/24 17:08:31 executing: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe showvminfo boot2docker-vm --machineread
able
Waiting for VM and Docker daemon to start...
.Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://loc
alhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0)
.Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://loc
alhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0)
.Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://loc
alhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:2022 (attempt #0)
2015/06/24 17:08:45 executing: C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSSH\bin\ssh.exe ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChec
king=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=quiet -p 2022 -i C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker docker@localhost
 ip addr show dev eth1
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker':
docker@localhost's password: [typed tcuser]
SSH returned: 4: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 08:00:27:01:1a:f5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.59.103/24 brd 192.168.59.255 scope global eth1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe01:1af5/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

END SSH
VM Host-only IP address: 192.168.59.103
Waiting for Docker daemon to start...
o2015/06/24 17:08:49 executing: C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSSH\bin\ssh.exe ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChe
cking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=quiet -p 2022 -i C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker docker@localhos
t grep tcp:// /proc/$(cat /var/run/docker.pid)/cmdline
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker':
docker@localhost's password: [typed tcuser]
SSH returned: tcp://0.0.0.0:2376

END SSH
2015/06/24 17:08:53 executing: C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSSH\bin\ssh.exe ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChec
king=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=quiet -p 2022 -i C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker docker@localhost
 ip addr show dev eth1
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker':
docker@localhost's password: [typed tcuser]
SSH returned: 4: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 08:00:27:01:1a:f5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.59.103/24 brd 192.168.59.255 scope global eth1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe01:1af5/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

END SSH

Started.
2015/06/24 17:08:56 executing: C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSSH\bin\ssh.exe ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChec
king=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=quiet -p 2022 -i C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker docker@localhost
 tar c /home/docker/.docker/*.pem
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Calin\.ssh\id_boot2docker':
docker@localhost's password: [typed tcuser]
tar: removing leading '/' from member names
Writing C:\Users\Calin\.boot2docker\certs\boot2docker-vm\ca.pem
Writing C:\Users\Calin\.boot2docker\certs\boot2docker-vm\cert.pem
Writing C:\Users\Calin\.boot2docker\certs\boot2docker-vm\key.pem
Your environment variables are already set correctly.

D:\> docker version
Client version: 1.7.0
Client API version: 1.19
Go version (client): go1.4.2
Git commit (client): 0baf609
OS/Arch (client): windows/amd64
Server version: 1.7.0
Server API version: 1.19
Go version (server): go1.4.2
Git commit (server): 0baf609
OS/Arch (server): linux/amd64