Error response from daemon: hcsshim::CreateScratchLayer failed in Win32: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3)

asiancuteboy71 · September 27, 2024, 9:43pm

Hi all,

I have a powershell script that runs Docker containers, the images load, but the containers do not, and they all error out with following output (I have redacted out some sensitive information in the text of the output):

Starting to run sdoapmdockerrepo.azurecr.io/mdrx.pm.server.microservice.administration:22.4.1.5 on port 18019:80
Will run :
docker run --restart unless-stopped  --name=Administration -d     -e GatewayUri="http://Gateway"   -e AuthUri="http://Auth"   -e EmployerUri="http://Employer"   -e PatientUri="http://Patient"   -e webclientUri="http://webclient"   -e SchedulingUri="http://Scheduling"   -e TranUri="http://Tran"   -e NoteUri="http://Note"   -e StoredJobsUri="http://StoredJobs"   -e DocumentUri="http://Document"   -e SettingsUri="http://Settings"   -e ProviderUri="http://Provider"   -e CarrierUri="http://Carrier"   -e DashboardUri="http://Dashboard"   -e ClaimsUri="http://Claims"   -e AdministrationUri="http://Administration"    -e ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT="Development" -e APMSecurityDSN="Provider=msoledbsql;Server=tcp:XXXXX;Database=XXXX;User Id=XXX;Password=XXXX;Trusted_Connection=no;" -e AIEMasterDSN=" " -e HostType="Docker" -e AppPath="C:\app" -e AdDomainController="" -e APMAPIFQDN="XXXXXX" -p 18019:80  -v C:/Logs:C:/app/Logs    sdoapmdockerrepo.azurecr.io/mdrx.pm.server.microservice.administration:22.4.1.5
docker: Error response from daemon: hcsshim::CreateScratchLayer failed in Win32: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3).
See 'docker run --help'.

I am running the latest Docker Desktop v.4.34.2.

I tried docker system prune command, but that did not resolve issue.

Can someone help with figuring out how to resolve this?

Thanks.

rimelek · September 28, 2024, 12:52am

I’m not sure about this, but try

-v C:\Logs:/app/Logs

instead of

-v C:/Logs:C:/app/Logs

and make sure Logs exist on drive C. The drive letter is also not required ans possibly not even valid as you could not mount anywhere except to drive C in the container.

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/troubleshoot/topics/#path-conversion-on-windows

asiancuteboy71 · September 28, 2024, 6:49pm

Hi rimelek,

I tried what you suggested, and reran the powershell script, but I still got the same error.

rimelek · September 28, 2024, 11:15pm

We often see people say they got the same error when it is just similar. Please, quote the error message in a code block

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error message
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note I wrote 3 backticks not single quotes before and after the code. You can check our formatting guide: How to format your forum posts

asiancuteboy71 · September 29, 2024, 12:57am

Hi rimelek,

Here is the error message:

docker: Error response from daemon: hcsshim::CreateScratchLayer failed in Win32: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3).

rimelek · September 29, 2024, 8:28am

Can you please quote the new command as well?

rimelek · September 29, 2024, 8:54am

Also check this issue on GitHub

github.com/microsoft/Windows-Containers

hcsshim::CreateScratchLayer - failed failed in Win32: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3)

opened 05:10PM - 06 Jun 23 UTC

closed 06:31PM - 25 Jul 23 UTC

Hithesh0899

bug

Please fill out _all the sections_ below for bug issues, otherwise it'll be clos…ed as it won't be actionable for us to address. **Describe the bug** my base image FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019 Unable to build the image using the docker file with WORKDIR C:/app command **To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: **Expected behavior** Image of sample application should be created without any bugs **Configuration:** - Edition: Windows 10 Enterprise - Base Image being used: mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019 - Container engine: - Container Engine version 20.10.17 **Additional context** Step 1/14 : FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019 ---> 66a1a48cbc11 Step 2/14 : WORKDIR C:/dockers hcsshim::CreateScratchLayer - failed failed in Win32: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3) `dockerfile: ` FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019 WORKDIR C:/app SHELL ["powershell", "-Command", "$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'; $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue';"] # https://github.com/docker-library/python/pull/557 ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8 #PYTHON Dependency ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.11.3 RUN $url = ('https://www.python.org/ftp/python/{0}/python-{1}-amd64.exe' -f ($env:PYTHON_VERSION -replace '[a-z]+[0-9]*$', ''), $env:PYTHON_VERSION); \ Write-Host ('Downloading {0} ...' -f $url); \ [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; \ Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile 'python.exe'; \ \ Write-Host 'Installing ...'; \ # https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#installing-without-ui $exitCode = (Start-Process python.exe -Wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru \ -ArgumentList @( \ '/quiet', \ 'InstallAllUsers=1', \ 'TargetDir=C:\Python', \ 'PrependPath=1', \ 'Shortcuts=0', \ 'Include_doc=0', \ 'Include_pip=0', \ 'Include_test=0' \ ) \ ).ExitCode; \ if ($exitCode -ne 0) { \ Write-Host ('Running python installer failed with exit code: {0}' -f $exitCode); \ Get-ChildItem $env:TEMP | Sort-Object -Descending -Property LastWriteTime | Select-Object -First 1 | Get-Content; \ exit $exitCode; \ } \ \ # the installer updated PATH, so we should refresh our local value $env:PATH = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('PATH', [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine); \ \ Write-Host 'Verifying install ...'; \ Write-Host ' python --version'; python --version; \ \ Write-Host 'Removing ...'; \ Remove-Item python.exe -Force; \ Remove-Item $env:TEMP/Python*.log -Force; \ \ Write-Host 'Complete.' # if this is called "PIP_VERSION", pip explodes with "ValueError: invalid truth value '<VERSION>'" ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 22.3.1 # https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/365 ENV PYTHON_SETUPTOOLS_VERSION 65.5.1 # https://github.com/pypa/get-pip ENV PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL https://github.com/pypa/get-pip/raw/0d8570dc44796f4369b652222cf176b3db6ac70e/public/get-pip.py ENV PYTHON_GET_PIP_SHA256 96461deced5c2a487ddc65207ec5a9cffeca0d34e7af7ea1afc470ff0d746207 RUN Write-Host ('Downloading get-pip.py ({0}) ...' -f $env:PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL); \ [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; \ Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $env:PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL -OutFile 'get-pip.py'; \ Write-Host ('Verifying sha256 ({0}) ...' -f $env:PYTHON_GET_PIP_SHA256); \ if ((Get-FileHash 'get-pip.py' -Algorithm sha256).Hash -ne $env:PYTHON_GET_PIP_SHA256) { \ Write-Host 'FAILED!'; \ exit 1; \ }; \ \ $env:PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE = '1'; \ \ Write-Host ('Installing pip=={0} ...' -f $env:PYTHON_PIP_VERSION); \ python get-pip.py \ --disable-pip-version-check \ --no-cache-dir \ --no-compile \ ('pip=={0}' -f $env:PYTHON_PIP_VERSION) \ ('setuptools=={0}' -f $env:PYTHON_SETUPTOOLS_VERSION) \ ; \ Remove-Item get-pip.py -Force; \ \ Write-Host 'Verifying pip install ...'; \ pip --version; \ \ Write-Host 'Complete.' COPY . C:/app COPY Execution_Logs.txt C:/

I happened to the user because of an accidentally deleted, missing system folder

PS: I also changed the topic title to include the error message so it can be found more easily when someone just looks at the title

asiancuteboy71 · September 29, 2024, 5:51pm

Hi rimelek,

Thanks for sending me the link to the other forum post. After I reset to factory defaults in Docker Desktop, and reran my script with the original mounting setting, I can see the containers now, so the issue is resolved.