Been struggling with this problem on and off for six months and I have run completely out of ideas.
When executing any docker image, even hello-world, I get the following error:
# docker run hello-world
container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:334: running prestart hook 0 caused \"error running hook: exit status 1, stdout: , stderr: time=\\\"2017-06-18T11:14:27-04:00\\\" level=fatal msg=\\\"failed to add interface vethb386a4d to sandbox: failed to get link by name \\\\\\\"vethb386a4d\\\\\\\": Link not found\\\" \\n\""
docker: Error response from daemon: oci runtime error: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:334: running prestart hook 0 caused \"error running hook: exit status 1, stdout: , stderr: time=\\\"2017-06-18T11:14:27-04:00\\\" level=fatal msg=\\\"failed to add interface vethb386a4d to sandbox: failed to get link by name \\\\\\\"vethb386a4d\\\\\\\": Link not found\\\" \\n\"".
ERRO[0000] error getting events from daemon: net/http: request canceled
The referenced veth changes each time, but other than that, the error is the same, no matter what docker image I try to run. Every single one fails. I also get a new veth showing up in ifconfig for every time I try to run a container—docker is failing to clean up the interfaces it creates, presumably because it dies before it gets to that stage in its process. None of the virtual interfaces have names that match the error messages, either.
Like, I literally cannot run any docker images. My workaround has been to create an LXC container and run my docker applications inside of that. It works, but feels pretty Inception-y.
Relevant environment data:
# uname -ar
Linux liquidity 4.8.0-54-generic #57~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 24 16:22:28 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
# docker version
Client:
Version: 17.05.0-ce
API version: 1.29
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: 89658be
Built: Thu May 4 22:10:54 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Server:
Version: 17.05.0-ce
API version: 1.29 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: 89658be
Built: Thu May 4 22:10:54 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
# docker info
Containers: 8
Running: 0
Paused: 0
Stopped: 8
Images: 2
Server Version: 17.05.0-ce
Storage Driver: aufs
Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Dirs: 18
Dirperm1 Supported: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host macvlan null overlay
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 9048e5e50717ea4497b757314bad98ea3763c145
runc version: 9c2d8d184e5da67c95d601382adf14862e4f2228
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
apparmor
seccomp
Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.8.0-54-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 8
Total Memory: 15.5GiB
Name: liquidity
ID: ERRY:IHG2:J4GB:IGVD:6Y2Q:2J56:ZWIX:KD3K:2TVR:BWL3:V2BG:PMOA
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false
WARNING: No swap limit support
The most recent troubleshooting step I took was upgrading my kernel from 4.4.0-72 to 4.8.0-54, then purging/reinstalling docker via the get.docker.com script. Absolutely no change.
Google has totally failed me. The error is apparently sufficiently funky that queries like this don’t return anything of any apparent value.
Any help at all would be appreciated. I’m happy to dig through log files and provide any info needed and I could probably set up tcpdump and capture some stuff if asked; I am totally at the end of my rope and posting this here is my last resort hail-mary.