Multi-user support

[germancasares]

Describe the bug
I can work normally with Orbstack if I boot up the computer and login with a user.
But If I try to use Orbstack in a different user, that user won't be able to run docker containers.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Login with a user
2. Start Orbstack
3. Switch users
4. Try to start Orbstack
5. docker ps and other commands don't work.

Killing the process and restarting Orbstack solves the issue.

sudo lsof -i :42507
kill -9

Expected behavior
Switching users lets me keep using docker containers

Screenshots

Logs

time="05-04 16:36:38" level=fatal msg="host forward failed" error="listen tcp4 127.0.0.1:42507: bind: address already in use" spec="{tcp:127.0.0.1:42507 tcp:8000}"

Info report

OrbStack info:
  Version: 0.8.1 (80100)
  Commit: 98ca0999c97f88203837e17b66314aa571fe9476 (v0.8.1)

System info:
  macOS: 13.3.1 (22E261)
  CPU: amd64, 12 cores
  CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[kdrag0n]

Yes, you'll have to stop OrbStack in the other user for now. The plan was to fix this over a month ago but it's blocked on issues in a library, so unfortunately I can't say when proper multi-user support will arrive.

[mountainash]

To assist with Issue search and less duplicate issues, this is related to macOS Fast User Switching.

[kdrag0n]

Added for the next version.

[kdrag0n]

Released in v0.17.2.

[mityukov]

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Login with a user
2. Start Orbstack
3. Switch users
4. Try to start Orbstack
5. docker ps and other commands don't work.

Same issue here.

• OrbStack Version 1.8.0 (18332)
• MacOS 15.1

Killing the process and restarting Orbstack solves the issue.

This doesn't help! If I go to original user, quit OrbStack there and then switch to the second user and start OrbStack here -- docker commands still don't work:

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///Users/pilat/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/docker.raw.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

...

UPDATE: there was some bug with the Docker Desktop in the past, which I solved by adding export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///Users/$(whoami)/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/docker.raw.sock to my ~/.profile file. So, I've removed this line, logged out form the second user and then logged in again -- now Orb works!

I suggest to leave this comment here, because, as I remember, that bug was affecting quite a handful of users, so, someone may find this useful information.