Docker compose fails with oci runtime error container_linux.go:262
- 28 Aug 2017: Post was created (diff)
Attempting to create a pair of containers with docker-compose but I’m getting
error messages like
oci runtime error: container_linux.go:262
Tool versions
$ docker -v
Docker version 17.06.1-ce, build 874a7374f3
$ docker-compose -v
docker-compose version 1.15.0, build unknown
And my Docker compose file was
version: '3.3'
services:
db:
image: postgres
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: p420w0rd
POSTGRES_DB: test
volumes:
- postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
adminer:
image: adminer
ports:
- 8080:8080
volumes:
postgres:
But attempting to bring them up returns errors:
$ docker-compose up --remove-orphans
Creating postgres_adminer_1 ...
Creating postgres_db_1 ...
Creating postgres_adminer_1
Creating postgres_db_1 ... error
ERROR: for postgres_db_1 Cannot start service db: oci runtime error: container_linux.go:262: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:339: container init caused \"process_linux.go:322: running prestart hook 0 caused \\\"fork/exec /usr/bin/dockerd (deleted): no such file or directory\\\"\""
Creating postgres_adminer_1 ... error
ERROR: for postgres_adminer_1 Cannot start service adminer: oci runtime error: container_linux.go:262: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:339: container init caused \"process_linux.go:322: running prestart hook 0 caused \\\"fork/exec /usr/bin/dockerd (deleted): no such file or directory\\\"\""
ERROR: for db Cannot start service db: oci runtime error: container_linux.go:262: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:339: container init caused \"process_linux.go:322: running prestart hook 0 caused \\\"fork/exec /usr/bin/dockerd (deleted): no such file or directory\\\"\""
ERROR: for adminer Cannot start service adminer: oci runtime error: container_linux.go:262: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:339: container init caused \"process_linux.go:322: running prestart hook 0 caused \\\"fork/exec /usr/bin/dockerd (deleted): no such file or directory\\\"\""
ERROR: Encountered errors while bringing up the project.
Looking around the net, I saw someone mentioning that this might come from a kernel error. Perhaps it arised from a kernel update of which I did not reboot afterwards.
A reboot solved the issue with no sight of the error messages.
Looking at the package manager logs, I can see when I last updated the kernel:
$ grep 'upgraded linux' /var/log/pacman.log
[2017-08-21 10:22] [ALPM] upgraded linux (4.12.8-1 -> 4.12.8-2)
And my last reboot was before that
$ journalctl --list-boots
-1 f1e4a0f684ae4e3ca199874501e32d5f Thu 2017-08-10 12:50:08 CEST—Mon 2017-08-28 17:27:52 CEST
So that seems to actually be the case for me.
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