docker service cannot be started

[davidlubomirov]

Please fill out the below information:

• Your Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.611]

• What you're doing and what's happening:

$ sudo systemctl start docker
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:
  docker service should start

I'm using Ubuntu on Windows:

$ cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

[therealkenc]

Error is #1579. Hangout for Docker is #2291.

[davidlubomirov]

None of these posts helped resolving the issue!

[therealkenc]

Correct. Once (if) sudo systemctl start docker is working, the status of those issues will change from the current state of open to closed.