Docker stop working

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Hello,

My docker stopped working all of a sudden. I’ve tried to reinstall but had no luck.

feb 27 08:31:28 dockerd[6282]: time="2023-02-27T08:31:28.778772142+01:00" level=warning msg="Usage of loopback devices is strongly discouraged for production use. Please use `--storage-opt dm.thinpooldev` or use `man dockerd` to refer to dm.thinpooldev section." storage-driver=devicemapper
feb 27 08:31:28 dockerd[6282]: time="2023-02-27T08:31:28.821655555+01:00" level=warning msg="Base device already exists and has filesystem xfs on it. User specified filesystem  will be ignored." storage-driver=devicemapper
feb 27 08:31:28 dockerd[6282]: time="2023-02-27T08:31:28.885006692+01:00" level=error msg="[graphdriver] prior storage driver devicemapper is deprecated and will be removed in a future release; update the the daemon configuration and explicitly choose this storage driver to continue using it; visit https://docs.docker.com/go/storage-driver/ for more information"
feb 27 08:31:28 dockerd[6282]: time="2023-02-27T08:31:28.885550134+01:00" level=info msg="[core] [Channel #1] Channel Connectivity change to SHUTDOWN" module=grpc
feb 27 08:31:28 dockerd[6282]: time="2023-02-27T08:31:28.885628985+01:00" level=info msg="[core] [Channel #1 SubChannel #2] Subchannel Connectivity change to SHUTDOWN" module=grpc
feb 27 08:31:28 dockerd[6282]: time="2023-02-27T08:31:28.885669354+01:00" level=info msg="[core] [Channel #1 SubChannel #2] Subchannel deleted" module=grpc
feb 27 08:31:28 dockerd[6282]: time="2023-02-27T08:31:28.885686396+01:00" level=info msg="[core] [Channel #1] Channel deleted" module=grpc
feb 27 08:31:28 dockerd[6282]: failed to start daemon: error initializing graphdriver: prior storage driver devicemapper is deprecated and will be removed in a future release; update the the daemon configuration and explicitly choose this storage driver to continue using it; visit https://docs.docker.com/go/storage-driver/ for more information
feb 27 08:31:28 systemd[1]: docker.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
feb 27 08:31:28 systemd[1]: docker.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
feb 27 08:31:28 systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.
feb 27 08:31:30 systemd[1]: docker.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
feb 27 08:31:30 systemd[1]: Stopped Docker Application Container Engine.
feb 27 08:31:30 systemd[1]: docker.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
feb 27 08:31:30 systemd[1]: docker.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
feb 27 08:31:30 systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.

Any idea?

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There are threads and posts about it.

  1. You can try installing apparmor. That might get it working.
  2. You can try adding an override for LimitNOFILE as mentioned in /etc/docker.service.d/override.conf containing:
[Service]
LimitNOFILE=1048576

You may need to add the same to /etc/containerd.service.d/override.conf.

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I’ve tried both and no effect

4

Okay, now works. I’ve fixed configuring overlay2. Following this guide:

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The OverlayFS fix from the Docker website worked for me too.

Beware that this will move all your current docker images in a backup repository and you will have either to figure out how to bring them back or start clean with docker pull.