Error response from daemon: client is newer than server (client API version: 1.23, server API version: 1.22)

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Expected behavior

After the migration, I want to to a docker ps

Actual behavior

This error message is shown: Error response from daemon: client is newer than server (client API version: 1.23, server API version: 1.22)

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Install Docker for Mac
  2. Wait the end of migration
  3. Do a docker ps
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I am also seeing this problem.

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I had this issue too – make sure to remove eval $(docker-machine env default) from your .bash_profile and restart your shell.

env | grep DOCKER should be empty.

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Same thing on Ubuntu 16.04. Same exact error, exact same versions.

I had a working setup a week or two ago, just came back to it and I get the error described above. I assume a new version of docker was installed without my paying attention.

The entire list of docker-related packages on my system:
ii docker.io 1.11.2-0ubuntu5~16.04 amd64 Linux container runtime
ii python-docker 1.8.0-0ubuntu1 all Python wrapper to access docker.io’s control socket
ii python-dockerpty 0.3.4-1build1 all Pseudo-tty handler for docker Python client (Python 2.x)
ii vim-syntax-docker 1.11.2-0ubuntu5~16.04 all Docker container engine - Vim highlighting syntax files

env | grep DOCKER gets nothing. There are no docker-related variables in any of my .bash* files.

I would love to know how to get this working again.

Thanks.

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export DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.22

will get you going again. (Docker people…why doesn’t the standard command-line client renegotiate this on its own?)

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Wow, that worked. Thanks a bunch!

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awesome…it worked like charm.