Docker Desktop Service not showing and not run in Ubuntu 24.04 ("Noble Numbat")

[indramal (Indramal Wansekara)]

I installed Docker Desktop according to the instruction given int this link - Install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu | Docker Docs

OS - Ubuntu 24.04 (“Noble Numbat”)

When I run systemctl --user start docker-desktop it is not opening. When I check in services, there are no services with docker-desktop name.

Docker is working fine. I can check docker images using sudo docekr ps command.

How can I solve this issue? How should I troubleshoot this? @meyay

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

You will probably not get a quicker response from a moderator or any helper by mentioning them. Check the following topic for a workaround and to find the related github issue:

Cannot get Docker Desktop to run on Ubuntu 24.04

Hi, been at this a few days now. I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04. I tried installing Docker Desktop and that would not run. No errors, just hangs. Many many cleans and reinstalls later. Even docker hello-world wont run. The error message I get is that the daemon wont start. Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///home/greg/.docker/desktop/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?. Shouldnt this be looking at /var/run/docker ? docker info Client: Version: 24.0.7 Context: desktop…

As I wrote this many times, the documentation still doesn’t mention Ubuntu 24.04. A discussion is in progress about supporting it.

[indramal (Indramal Wansekara)]

I already check below sites and I tried several suggestions. After that I post this because these are not working.

Cannot get Docker Desktop to run on Ubuntu 24.04

@sharifgh Then let’s continue this discussion in a new topic, because the installation guide of Docker on Ubuntu indeed includes Ubuntu 24.04, so that should work. Although even if Docker Desktop is not installed now, but it was, it is also possible that the context settings were not reset so you still need to switch context. If you open a new topic, I can give you some ideas. I can’t install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 now to help, but I can try to install Docker CE in a virtual machine lat…

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amd64 and x86_64 mean the same. If you are looking for error messages that will probably not come when you start a service on Linux unless it is running in the foreground, but systemctl starts it in the background. systemctl --user status docker-desktop could tell you more about the status of the service.

https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/129miky/docker_desktop_does_not_run_on_ubuntu_2004/

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I found these:

• can not find this file /etc/xdg/systemd/user/docker-desktop.service
• Not run docker-desktop.service service
• No file in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/docker.service
  *Docker run but not docker desktop
• systemctl --user start docker-desktop and systemctl --user force-reload docker-desktop not working
• When run /opt/docker-desktop/bin/com.docker.backend, it show only staring the docker engine.
• This not working systemctl --user enable docker-desktop
• KVM virtualization check using lsmod | grep kvm. It is ok.

This commands only works but temporary.

$ sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0
$ systemctl --user restart docker-desktop

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

@indramal

This commands only works but temporary.

Yes. And there is a solution for that in the topic I linked.

@sharifgh

You think it’s a good idea to make it persistent in /etc/sysctl.conf or we should deal with it till docker comes up with an update?

@oferdiari

added kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0
to /etc/sysctl.conf fixed the problem on ubuntu 24.04 lts

@indramal

I already check below sites and I tried several suggestions. After that I post this because these are not working.

I won’t be able to help you in a new topic either. We can’t fix it. Docker Desktop is not mentioned in the documentation. The issue is known so it is up to the developers to fix it. As you can see on GitHub, even when the author of the issue set the kernel parameter, Docker Desktop was not stable after some time.