'Overlay not found...ensure kenel new enough' Error on Arch Linux

[toddleo]

Hi, I'm trying to run a docker image on my Arch Linux machine, however I cannot pull the image from Docker Registry, and as I dig into it I found the docker daemon failed to start:

> sudo docker pull ubuntu
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is 'docker -d' running on this host?
> sudo docker -d
INFO[0000] Listening for HTTP on unix (/var/run/docker.sock) 
ERRO[0000] 'overlay' not found as a supported filesystem on this host. Please ensure kernel is new enough and has overlay support loaded. 
WARN[0000] Running modprobe bridge nf_nat failed with message: , error: exit status 1 
FATA[0000] Error starting daemon: Error initializing network controller: Error creating default "bridge" network: operation not supported

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): linux/amd64
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is 'docker -d' running on this host?
docker info: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is 'docker -d' running on this host?
uname -r: 4.0.6-1-ARCH
Any thoughts?

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[cpuguy83]

The overlay kernel module is not loaded, and as such cannot be used.
Are you using a custom kernel? Is the kernel compiled with overlay support?

Closing since this is not a Docker issue.

[toddleo]

Hi cpuguy83,
no, the kernel is not customized, it comes with Arch Linux.

[vanga]

@toddleo did you get it to work? what's the solution for this? I get the same error on ArchLinux

Thanks

[vanga]

though, my error is slightly different
My Kernel version is 4.0.x

INFO[0000] Listening for HTTP on unix (/var/run/docker.sock) 
ERRO[0000] 'overlay' not found as a supported filesystem on this host. Please ensure kernel is new enough and has overlay support loaded. 
WARN[0000] Running modprobe bridge nf_nat failed with message: , error: exit status 1 
FATA[0000] Error starting daemon: Error initializing network controller: Error creating default "bridge" network: package not installed 

[toddleo]

@vanga: no I haven't got it right yet, decided to deploy on physical machine instead of using docker, due to our strict time limit. :D

[benjah1]

@toddleo @vanga have you try the --privileged flag?

docker-library/docker#5

[hut8]

I just had the same issue a few minutes ago on Arch. The official Docker package for Arch does install bridge-utils, but then you need to reboot to load it.