# Docker: error pulling image configuration

**URL:** <https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-error-pulling-image-configuration/80278>\
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**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-error-pulling-image-configuration/80278 "2019-08-26T17:44:26Z")\
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this command normally runs fine … today it failed …

docker run --entrypoint htpasswd registry:2 -Bbn myusername bigsecretpwd \> /cryptdata7/var/log/registry2/reg/hub/auth/htpasswd  
Unable to find image ‘registry:2’ locally  
2: Pulling from library/registry  
c87736221ed0: Pulling fs layer  
1cc8e0bb44df: Pulling fs layer  
54d33bcb37f5: Pulling fs layer  
e8afc091c171: Pulling fs layer  
b4541f6d3db6: Pulling fs layer  
e8afc091c171: Waiting  
b4541f6d3db6: Waiting  
1cc8e0bb44df: Verifying Checksum  
1cc8e0bb44df: Download complete  
54d33bcb37f5: Verifying Checksum  
54d33bcb37f5: Download complete  
c87736221ed0: Verifying Checksum  
c87736221ed0: Download complete  
c87736221ed0: Pull complete  
1cc8e0bb44df: Pull complete  
54d33bcb37f5: Pull complete  
docker: error pulling image configuration: Get [https://production.cloudflare.docker.com/registry-v2/docker/registry/v2/blobs/sha256/f3/f32a97de94e13d29835a19851acd6cbc7979d1d50f703725541e44bb89a1ce91/data?verify=1566843093-WbkYKc%2F7mjYpaU%2BVHxYi8gziuAY%3D:](https://production.cloudflare.docker.com/registry-v2/docker/registry/v2/blobs/sha256/f3/f32a97de94e13d29835a19851acd6cbc7979d1d50f703725541e44bb89a1ce91/data?verify=1566843093-WbkYKc%2F7mjYpaU%2BVHxYi8gziuAY%3D:) net/http: TLS handshake timeout.  
See ‘docker run --help’.

this is on Ubuntu 18.04 server

here is the docker version

docker version  
Client: Docker Engine - Community  
Version: 19.03.1  
API version: 1.40  
Go version: go1.12.5  
Git commit: 74b1e89  
Built: Thu Jul 25 21:21:05 2019  
OS/Arch: linux/amd64  
Experimental: false

Server: Docker Engine - Community  
Engine:  
Version: 19.03.1  
API version: 1.40 (minimum version 1.12)  
Go version: go1.12.5  
Git commit: 74b1e89  
Built: Thu Jul 25 21:19:41 2019  
OS/Arch: linux/amd64  
Experimental: false  
containerd:  
Version: 1.2.6  
GitCommit: 894b81a4b802e4eb2a91d1ce216b8817763c29fb  
runc:  
Version: 1.0.0-rc8  
GitCommit: 425e105d5a03fabd737a126ad93d62a9eeede87f  
docker-init:  
Version: 0.18.0  
GitCommit: fec3683

two minutes later I wiped that box and did a fresh docker install and above command ran fine … obviously you are having stability issues with your network

Should I be booking this on some stackexchange forum instead ? on as an issue on docker [github.com](http://github.com) ? Please advise