As title says today I updated docker to latest version and after it restarted I noticed no dashboard and gui was open, I confirm docker is running and I can see the little icon on the taskbar, I can even interact with it however if I click anything that should open the dashboard or the window UI nothing happens. What should I do to debug this annoying issue and solve it?
Whe have many similar topics, you also found another, but there is no obvious solution. You can try diagnostics and share the result with the developers as mentioned in the following guide:
Can you also share the exact version number you use? Just to make sure the latest is indeed the latst and future readers would understand in which versions they could face this issue more likely.
You can also try
docker desktop status
docker desktop stop
docker desktop start
I remember one case when starting it from command line helped.
Since that issue I tried reinstall and update wsl and also fully reinstalled docker latest version but… no docker entry was added to wsl, I checked it with wsl -l -v which led to docker being stuck in a state saying “Docker is starting” if I hover to the whale icon but never progressing further.
I then downgraded to docker v4.59.0 and reinstalling it not only added the wsl entry but the GUI etc. are working again without any issues, for reference I am using this Windows 10 version, and I suggest to all Windows 10 users to not update docker until this is better inspected and potentially solved.
Actually Windows 10 reached its end of life (unless being in the ESU program) and for a short time, we also saw somewhere stating that the Windows 10 support for Docker Desktop was dropped. Then it was mentioned again, but not Windows Home. This is what I can see in the documentation
- Windows 10 64-bit: Enterprise, Pro, or Education version 22H2 (build 19045).
I assume it has to do something with the Extended Security Update program offered by Microsoft, but I’m not sure. So if the issue is related to only Windows Home, it might not be fixed at all. You can try the troubleshooting guide I recommended and hoping Docker would still fix this for Windows 10. They could have better idea about what it could affect in addition to Windows Home.
Or you can open a ticket in the desktop-feedback repository
But they would still probably ask you to run the diagnostics mentioned in the troubleshooting guide.
My Windows 10 didn’t have the extended newer security updates installed yet when I faced those problems!
I installed those new updates today so maybe that may already have fixed the situation? I don’t know and I can’t really test right it now because I need to run my docker for a few days
Extended Security Update is the name of the program at Microsoft for those who want extended support for Windows itself.
Since I have Windows 11, I always forget who can participate in that program, but I thought it was only for enterprises and pro. I couldn’t find a proof for that now. So unless you suddenly became a Microsoft Winsows 10 ESU user, I doub’t that any issue would be fixed for you if you reinstalled the latest Docker Desktop again, unless you tried before v4.62 which is the current latest released yesterday.
I could sign up for it and after doing that windows update found 2 new security updates
I was missing them at first, but again I can’t proof or verify yet if this will make latest docker version work correctly on w10
I see. Then let’s hope it helps whenever you have time to test it, but Windows Home is not officially supporte by Docker Desktop regardless of having ESU or not, so you can expect other issues any time in newer versions.