I recently got a Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro processor and I tried to install Docker. I have no previous experience about Macs, but I’m learning and I’m getting help from a co-worker. However, I cannot get Docker working. I installed the Apple silicon version of Docker, but it doesn’t seem to work. When I double-click the Docker icon, nothing happens. The whale icon doesn’t appear in task bar. Docker daemon isn’t running. There is a Docker task in the Activity Monitor, but eventually the process name turns red and there is “(Not Responding)” text after the process name.
I don’t know what to try next. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Docker, but it makes no difference.
Any ideas? I’m not very familiar with Docker in Windows either, so I don’t know how to debug this kind of problems.
Here is the log from Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/log/host/Docker.log.
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="GoBackend: Launching Process /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.backend -watchdog -native-api"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="GoBackend: com.docker.backend launched with PID 21778"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="GoBackend: status Pinging"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="IPCClient: 4a63510c-GoBackend (00dd6478) C->S GET /ping"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="DevEnvsBackend: Launching Process /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.dev-envs -watchdog"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="error" msg="IPCClient: 4a63510c-GoBackend (00dd6478) C<-S GET /ping (1.811981ms): Request failed: no response"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="DevEnvsBackend: com.docker.dev-envs launched with PID 21779"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="ExtensionManagerBackend: Launching Process /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.desktop-extensions -address /User
s/vmkiili/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/extension-manager.sock -watchdog"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="ExtensionManagerBackend: com.docker.desktop-extensions launched with PID 21780"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="CrashReport: stderr redirected to /Users/vmkiili/Library/Group Containers/group.com.docker/DockerAppStderr.txt"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="DevEnvsBackend: ⇨ http server started on docker-dev-env-api.sock
"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="info" msg="ExtensionManagerBackend: Starting Desktop Extension Manager
"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="fault" msg="GoBackend: Notified of unexpected termination of com.docker.backend"
time="2022-02-04T14:27:18Z" level="fault" msg="GoBackend: 0 Docker 0x0000000100866748 $s6Docker14WatchedProcessC05startC033_CB5922B1013A2ABA2B
B8EAD3D4DF3136LLyyFySo6NSTaskCcfU0_ + 316
1 Docker 0x00000001008665f8 $sSo12NSFileHandleCIegg_ABIeyBy_TR + 36
2 Foundation 0x0000000187cfe494 __45-[NSConcreteTask launchWithDictionary:error:]_block_invoke_2 + 40
3 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000186b1ce60 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 32
4 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000186b1ebac _dispatch_client_callout + 20
5 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000186b3043c _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 684
6 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000186b30b58 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 164
7 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000186cd92c8 _pthread_wqthread + 228
8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000186cd8018 start_wqthread + 8"