Bad response from docker engine

Docker Desktop
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I’m on macbook pro 2018, running the latest OS and docker desktop 4.x.

I have some containers running, then I try to stop them and run docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml down -v --remove-orphans (actually this is a make command that runs it along with a couple of others, but I don’t think it matters). One of about three times when I run this command I get Error response from daemon: Bad response from Docker engine and docker gets dead and I need to restart it to fix. The restart takes about 2 minutes after this error. I need to restart containers multiple times a day, so I face this issue every day for several times. And it annoys me quite a lot as I get distracted from work and need to wait until it restarts, and sometimes there’re two or three bad responses in a row.

There’s an issue on github about it Error response from daemon: Bad response from Docker engine · Issue #5283 · docker/for-mac · GitHub but it’s been around for almost a year and nothing’s happening there.

So my questions are: is it completely a problem with docker or is it me doing something silly? Does anyone know a way to avoid this problem except for downgrading to 2.5? And that’s strange I can’t find questions on google about it because the problem seems pretty serious to me but not many people are bothered by it.

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I tried it multiple times without any issue. So it does not happen for everyone. At least not for me. I know it doesn’t help, but I don’t have too many ideas right know.

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Anyway, thanks for the reply.
Asked my colleagues if they also face this issue and only one of them does even though all of us have the same hardware.