Docker daemon is inactive (dead)

[andrefelipesantos]

Hello, I’m trying to run docker, but I can’t activate docker.service.
If I try to use:

systemctl start docker
systemctl status docker

I don’t know which dependency failed. What can I do?

[kasunsjc]

Hello,

Following is a similar incident that you can find to use. Can you completely remove the docker and install as per the documentation

Docker service failed : Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code

I am working on Jetson Orin AGX, and I tried to modify the /etc/docker/daemon.json by adding "default-runtime": "nvidia" and after modifying this when I did sudo systemctl restart docker got the following Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status docker.service" and "journalctl -xeu docker.service" for details. then when I check the service status I got the following nvidia@ubuntu:/etc/docker$ systemctl status docker.service × dock…

Documentation:

Debian

Make sure to follow the step uninstall old version in the documentation