Docker won't start anymore

[TimMeissner]

Expected behavior

Docker should start normally

Actual behavior

Docker doesn't start and status says "starting" all the time

Information

Diagnostic ID: C1D18BAC-E3C5-4E3F-AE1D-1953FB2BA30C
Docker for Mac: 1.12.0-a (Build 11213)
macOS: Version 10.11.3 (Build 15D21)
[ERROR] docker-cli
docker ps failed
[OK] app
[OK] moby-syslog
[OK] disk
[OK] virtualization
[OK] system
[OK] menubar
[OK] osxfs
[OK] db
[OK] slirp
[OK] moby-console
[OK] logs
[OK] vmnetd
[OK] env
[OK] moby
[OK] driver.amd64-linux

Steps to reproduce

Any ideas on this one? Tried rebooting, reinstall of docker and nothing works :(

[mihirv0ra]

#370 i am facing a similar issue, did you update docker for mac recently ?

[mihirv0ra]

Issue fixed check #370

[elgreg]

See #350 for solution for killing docker processes pkill docker instead of resetting to factory defaults.

[mchiang0610]

merging with #119

[samoht]

Detected symptom of problem 'symlinks-are-not-correctly-installed' in C1D18BAC-E3C5-4E3F-AE1D-1953FB2BA30C/20160819-094029.

Thanks for your report! The docker symlinks have not been correctly installed by the installer, which is a known issue that we are currently working on. A possible workaround is to install the docker client manually by running:

ln -s ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.docker/bin/docker /usr/local/bin/docker

May be related to #785

The following log matches:

Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.vmnetd][2503] <Notice>: User 501 has container folder /Users/timmeissner/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/s60
Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.vmnetd][2503] <Critical>: File /var/run/docker.sock is a symlink or a socket
Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.vmnetd][2503] <Notice>: User 501 has container folder /Users/timmeissner/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/s60
Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.vmnetd][2503] <Critical>: File /var/run/docker.sock is a symlink or a socket
Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.docker][2489] <Error>: Symlinks are not correctly installed.
Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.docker][2489] <Notice>: com.docker.osx.hyperkit.linux launched with PID 2507
Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.frontend][2506] <Critical>: dial unix /Users/timmeissner/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/s20: connect: no such file or directory
Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.docker][2489] <Error>: frontend process failed
Aug 17 10:05:06 Tims-MacBook-Pro Docker[com.docker.osx.hyperkit.linux][2507] <Notice>: Acquired task manager lock

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