Docker pull: Failed to register layer

[prestonvanloon]

docker pull  microsoft/mssql-server-linux
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from microsoft/mssql-server-linux
aed15891ba52: Already exists
773ae8583d14: Extracting [==================================================>]    823 B/823 B
d1d48771f782: Download complete
cd3d6cd6c0cf: Download complete
8ff6f8a9120c: Download complete
1fd7e8b10447: Download complete
bd485157db89: Download complete
273a1970ce9c: Download complete
d2d0b4dc209f: Download complete
failed to register layer: open /home/docker/aufs/layers/979db2360ccddf7f589f2478dc9eefcb6a7dad27fed64767aeeb5b09daa9c270: no such file or directory

docker --version
Docker version 1.12.5, build 7392c3b

uname -a
Linux DESKTOP-TSOA72N 3.13.0-106-generic #153-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 6 15:44:32 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

You can see that the second layer never finishes extracting.

[LuisBosquez]

@prestonvanloon this seems to me like a transient/network error. I was able to pull the image fine just now. Are you still experiencing this issue?

[prestonvanloon]

Hi @LuisBosquez, I'm still having the same issue.

➜  ~ docker pull  microsoft/mssql-server-linux
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from microsoft/mssql-server-linux

aed15891ba52: Already exists 
773ae8583d14: Extracting    823 B/823 B
d1d48771f782: Download complete 
cd3d6cd6c0cf: Download complete 
8ff6f8a9120c: Download complete 
1fd7e8b10447: Download complete 
bd485157db89: Download complete 
273a1970ce9c: Download complete 
d2d0b4dc209f: Download complete 
failed to register layer: open /home/docker/aufs/layers/f464057d7bca9ae166ab8501bf94553ff84abf0c1dda4eb0e6dd96976c0cf422: no such file or directory
➜  ~ docker --version
Docker version 1.12.5, build 7392c3b
➜  ~ uname -a
Linux DESKTOP-TSOA72N 3.13.0-107-generic #154-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 20 09:57:27 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
➜  ~ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release:	14.04
Codename:	trusty

[LuisBosquez]

@prestonvanloon Is there a firewall of some sort in your network? Have you had the similar issues with other images?

I will try to repro this with Ubuntu 14.04.5 and get back to you.

[prestonvanloon]

@LuisBosquez, no firewall. It pulls fine on Mac on same network.
It's pretty weird that it gets stuck on that one layer.

[LuisBosquez]

I have tried this on Ubuntu 14.04.5 and it worked. My only guess is that Docker Engine is not up to date:

docker --version
Docker version 1.13.0, build 49bf474

Can you try updating Docker Engine?

[prestonvanloon]

Hi @LuisBosquez,

I am using a non-standard docker root and this is the difference between our environments.

Here's exactly how to repo:

sudo service docker stop
mkdir /home/docker # On my machine, /home is a larger provision than /var/lib
sudo dockerd -g /home/docker 
# Open a new prompt
docker pull  microsoft/mssql-server-linux

So what I see in the daemon is:

ERRO[0043] Error releasing layer sha256:e7ebc6e16708285bee3917ae12bf8d172ee0d7684a7830751ab9a1c070e7a125: no such file or directory 
ERRO[0043] Error trying v2 registry: failed to register layer: open /home/docker/aufs/layers/f464057d7bca9ae166ab8501bf94553ff84abf0c1dda4eb0e6dd96976c0cf422: no such file or directory 
ERRO[0043] Attempting next endpoint for pull after error: failed to register layer: open /home/docker/aufs/layers/f464057d7bca9ae166ab8501bf94553ff84abf0c1dda4eb0e6dd96976c0cf422: no such file or directory 

Is there any layer expecting to be in the default /var/lib/docker directory?

[AndrewLaBabies]

I met similar problem when extracting, but not for mssql-docker project.

486a0428485d: Extracting [==================================================>]  68.02MB/68.02MB
ERROR: failed to register layer: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): chtimes /source-map: no such file or directory

I solved the problem by delete the docker volume, hope it can help.

docker volume list

docker rm xxx