I am using WSL Ubuntu to attempt to start docker, but I cannot get it started. The following is the command that I ran to attempt to start docker: sudo systemctl start docker There was no message saying that it started. Is there something else I need to do to start docker?

Here is the result after running the above command and then running “docker info” as the super user: sudo docker info Client: Docker Engine - Community Version: 24.0.7 Context: default Debug Mode: false Plugins: buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.) Version: v0.11.2 Path: /us…

Did you enable Systemd in WSL2? I would try service docker start

The following gives the same result. sudo service docker start sudo docker -D info wsl -l -v NAME STATE VERSION * Ubuntu Running 2 docker-desktop Stopped 2 docker-desktop-data Stopped 2

Wait, you have Docker Desktop too. Did you install Docker CE in Ubuntu distribution as well or do you just want to use Docker Desktop from the Ubuntu distribution? If you installed Docker CE in the Ubuntu distribution, how did you do that?

Yes, I installed Docker in Ubuntu, which is what I want to do. Install: sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done containerd.io is already th…

Try to run Docker manually for debugging: dockerd Then open another terminal, log in to the distro and try the docker command if dockerd didn’t fail. You could also check the system logs in /var/log, but I don’t remember where it should be there when systemd is not enabled. Alternatively, you ca…

I reinstalled docker using all of the steps in the following link: [image] Install Docker Engine on Ubuntu Jumpstart your client-side server applications with Docker Engine on Ubuntu. This guide details prerequisites and multiple methods to install Docker Engine on Ubuntu. …

how does to install on arch, i want the new one i just following Arch | Docker Docs these instruction and i got docker fish: Unknown command. ‘/usr/local/bin/docker’ exists but is not an executable file. i’m using arch linux distribution anyway garuda OS please help

This topic is about Docker-CE on a WSL2 Ubuntu distribution. Sine neither an official WSL2 Arch Linux distribution exists, nor an officially supported Docker-CE package on Arch Linux, how is your situation related to this topic?

Odd. I followed exactly the same steps in the link, and I’m having the same issues as you posted BEFORE you followed the steps in the link.

Cannot start Docker daemon using systemctl in WSL2

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rimelek (Ákos Takács) December 4, 2024, 9:35pm 13

Here is the actual issue which doesn’t seem to be related to WSL at all:

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Cannot start Docker daemon using systemctl in WSL2

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