Can't seem to get Docker Desktop running after the update

Docker Desktop
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Windows 11

Was working fine before. The process is running in the background. But no system tray or anything.

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Notes:

  • I tried running as admin
  • Uninstall/Reinstall
  • Icon is not hidden
  • I get the following error when trying to run Docker in the cli:
docker: error during connect: this error may indicate that the docker daemon is not running: Head "http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdocker_engine/_ping": open //./pipe/docker_engine: The system cannot find the file specified.

Vent: unbelievable this breaking version was ever released…

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Unless it happens on every machine or on most of the machines, it can be easily imagined that nobody had issues before releasing it, although the same kind of issue is happening from time to time. Issues often happen when something on the user’s machine is not compatible. Sometimes it is an old WSL2 version or not officially supported OS version. I also saw sometimes that another Desktop like Podman used the same default endpoints, but if the Desktop itself cannot start, it is probably something else.

Have you tried searching for logs in the Windows event logs?

You could also try to check the logs if those are written before Docker Desktop fails to start.

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/troubleshoot-and-support/troubleshoot/#check-the-logs

Or simply run

docker desktop logs

Assuming that works of course

If you can share what you see in the logs, we might have some ideas about what happened.

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The uninstall doesn’t delete everything (it should include an option to do a deep clean uninstall).

In Windows, I had to delete “Docker” related folders from my appdata folder.

Then reinstall the latest Docker Desktop. Because it’s a clean install, I had to reconfigure everything again.