boot2docker hangs, then crashes

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I installed Boot2Docker on Windows 7, then double-clicked on “Boot2Docker Start” on the desktop.
It gave me this message:

Waiting for VM and Docker daemon to start…
…ooooooo

It remains on this screen for a very long time (slowly adding additional “o” characters), so I left for a few hours.
When I came back the “Boot2Docker Start” window is gone.
I’m assuming this is not expected behavior.

If a logfile exists somewhere for Boot2Docker I’d sure appreciate it if someone could point me to where it is!

UPDATE:
I opened VirtualBox, killed the VM, then I deleted the folder: C:\Users\username\VirtualBox VMs\boot2docker-vm
When I re-launched “Boot2Docker Start” it worked.
I have no idea what the root cause of the problem was, but that appears to be a workaround.

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@sven is this the kind of thing you can detect automatically and repair automatically ?

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mmm, firstly, no, it should not be auto-closing the dialog, so thats a bit worrying.

and we’re not logging the output :confused:

@sam - we could, but its surprisingly rare (compared to the number of users that don’t have a problem) so its not high on the priority list - especially as VirtualBox seems to have a very large number of surprising corner cases that all look about the same :confused:

good to see its resolved tho :wink:

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I was struggling with same symptoms, also Win7. The delete VM workaround did the trick for me too. Thanks Joel.

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I’m having the same issue with my Mac, but deleting the VMs didn’t seem to solve the problem. What’s weird is I see the instance in the “Running” state in VirtualBox, but my console just shows this:

$ boot2docker up
Waiting for VM and Docker daemon to start…
…o

And keeps adding "o"s.

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The first thing you can do to debug this, is to use the virtualbox GUI to start the vm - that way you can see the output from the boot process.

and you can also use the GUI to delete the vm.

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The problem actually went away after uninstalling and reinstalling.

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I have a similar issue. Just downloaded docker for Mac OS X on my macbook pro (OS X 10.8.5). The VM starts (as can be seen in Virtual Box GUI but triggers a FATAL could not read from media error. I’ve tried remoiving this, rerunning the package installer but to no avail. Any suggestions?

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Hmm, After some playing around with reinstalls it works as long as I run it as sudo from the command line. It won’t run from the Apps folder.

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I’m having the exact same problem on Windows 10 insider preview.

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I get the same problem with Windows Insider preview, but the log suggests there is no bootable OS for the VM:

00:00:02.578566 Changing the VM state from ‘CREATING’ to ‘CREATED’.
00:00:02.578843 SharedFolders host service: adding host mapping
00:00:02.578853 Host path ‘C:\Users’, map name ‘c/Users’, writable, automount=true, create_symlinks=true, missing=false
00:00:02.579117 Changing the VM state from ‘CREATED’ to ‘POWERING_ON’.
00:00:02.579256 NAT: set redirect TCP host 127.0.0.1:2022 => guest 10.0.2.15:22
00:00:02.602226 Changing the VM state from ‘POWERING_ON’ to ‘RUNNING’.
00:00:02.605184 Guest Log: BIOS: VirtualBox 4.3.28
00:00:02.605284 PIT: mode=2 count=0x10000 (65536) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:02.645188 PIT: mode=2 count=0x48d3 (18643) - 64.00 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:02.650430 PIT: mode=2 count=0x10000 (65536) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:02.650651 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=1, bootseq=0233
00:00:02.650847 Guest Log: BIOS: CDROM boot failure code : 0002
00:00:02.651005 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from CD-ROM failed
00:00:02.651204 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=2, bootseq=0023
00:00:02.651403 Guest Log: BIOS: CDROM boot failure code : 0002
00:00:02.651558 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from CD-ROM failed
00:00:02.651753 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=3, bootseq=0002
00:00:02.652055 Guest Log: int13_harddisk: function 02, unmapped device for ELDL=80
00:00:02.652239 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
00:00:02.653612 Guest Log: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
00:00:02.653859 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0, flags=0x1
00:00:02.979072 NAT: old socket rcv size: 64KB
00:00:02.979095 NAT: old socket snd size: 64KB

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Looking at the settings for the boot2docker-vm there were no controllers in storage which seemed a bit odd, so I removed this vm, created a new one with the same name and chose a 64-bit linux platform. I then booted the machine and when it asked for a CD with an OS I pointed it at the boot2docker.iso. This appeared to build the vm.

I then powered it down and doubleclicked the boot2docker icon which brought me up a shell window that now reported the following:

initializing…
Virtual machine boot2docker-vm already exists

starting…
Waiting for VM and Docker daemon to start…
…oooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Started.
Trying to get Docker socket one more time
Error requesting socket: exit status 255
Auto detection of the VM’s Docker socket failed.
Please run boot2docker -v up to diagnose.

IP address of docker VM:

Failed to get VM Host only IP address.
Was the VM initialized using boot2docker?

setting environment variables …
error in run: Error requesting socket: exit status 255

You can now use docker directly, or boot2docker ssh to log into the VM.
Welcome to Git (version 1.9.5-preview20150319)

Run ‘git help git’ to display the help index.
Run 'git help ’ to display help for specific commands.

nickw@WIN-A8648PMEFF2 ~
$

Running boot2docker -v up as advised showed messages like:

Waiting for VM and Docker daemon to start…
.Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (a
ttempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://loca
lhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to
tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Conn
ecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attemp
t #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost
:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp:/
/localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connectin
g to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0)
.Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (a
ttempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://loca
lhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0).Connecting to
tcp://localhost:0 (attempt #0)

and

Waiting for Docker daemon to start…
o2015/07/14 01:06:11 executing: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe ssh -o Id
entitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o
LogLevel=quiet -p 0 -i C:\Users\nickw.ssh\id_boot2docker docker@localhost grep
tcp:// /proc/$(cat /var/run/docker.pid)/cmdline
Bad port '0’
Error requesting socket: exit status 255
o2015/07/14 01:06:11 executing: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe ssh -o Id
entitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o
LogLevel=quiet -p 0 -i C:\Users\nickw.ssh\id_boot2docker docker@localhost grep
tcp:// /proc/$(cat /var/run/docker.pid)/cmdline
Bad port '0’
Error requesting socket: exit status 255
o2015/07/14 01:06:12 executing: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe ssh -o Id
entitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o
LogLevel=quiet -p 0 -i C:\Users\nickw.ssh\id_boot2docker docker@localhost grep
tcp:// /proc/$(cat /var/run/docker.pid)/cmdline
Bad port '0’
Error requesting socket: exit status 255

Looking at Settings->Network it is set to NAT, so should it be set to Bridged to get assigned an IP address?

If I try to do this the drop down for Bridged Adapter, the drop down selector below doesn’t have a choice other than “Not selected” which isn’t a valid name so the settings can’t be changed to Bridged.

It’s late and I’m giving up for tonight.

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@nickweavers what version of vbox are you using?

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@svendowideit I am using the version the boot2docker installed which the Help->About VirtualBox tells me is 4.3.28 r 100309. The Help->Check for Updates tells me there is a newer version 4.3.30 available. Would you recommend I update to this?

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It appears there are known issues with network adapters when running VirtualBox 4.x in Windows 10 Preview. VirtualBox 5 is now out of Beta so I tried that. Boot2Docker didn’t build a good boot2docker-vm (no storage controllers again) but creating a new vm, mounting the boot2docker.iso and booting from it seemed to get me further.

I think the path probably needs to be tested out officially by the Docker team to get it working smoothly. Would be great to see a fresh boot2docker package with VB 5 released in time for Windows 10 on 29th July :+1:

Thanks

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from what I understand, the next release of docker-machine has been tested with vbox 5 (though I don’t know about windows 10, I haven’t tried it yet).

At the same time, we’re deprecating the boot2docker cli tool in favour of docker-machine.