I followed the instructions Ubuntu | Docker Docs on a new virtual machine. Next in step 3 Part 1: Containerize an application | Docker Docs after running the command docker build -t getting-started . an error is issued ERROR: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. I…

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[image] ava09: Context: default If you are using the Desktop, the context shouldn’t be default but “desktop-linux”. It could also be default, but if you installed docker engine as well, and you don’t have the docker group and don’t use sudo, you can’t access the docker socket. Try docker co…

thank you so much for this! the error was solved on my machine.

This was very helpful to solve my problem although mine was slightly different. I initially installed the engine, then after installing docker-desktop I could not connect to the daemon with either sudo or my user. I had to uninstall desktop (other problems still debugging) and still couldn’t run …

I am getting this error on trying to create a symlink: ln: unix:///var/run/docker.sock: No such file or directory

Which is true as nobody used unix:// in a symlink command. You wouldn’t try to use http:// either. I also don’t see why creating a symlink would be necessary. You change context and you are done. Symlink could only be necessary if you want multiple contexts using the same socket.

Thanks for the reply. I got this now. It was actually an issue with the Intellij Idea IDE which wasn’t picking the default context. This got resolved once I switched back to desktop-linux as default builder in docker desktop

This resolved my situation. For whatever reason, the symlink was not there.

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