Every docker command hangs

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#1

Every docker hangs. I encountered first this yesterday (with a known incident in one of our remote server 2 days ago Feb 16 2022).

  • All docker compose commands I tried hanged (docer-compose up, down, ps)
  • Thus I tried docker commands, which also hanged (e.g docker -v docker --help)

I followed What to do when all docker commands hang? - #4 by samsgates but to no avails, first I tried stoping docker service :

$ sudo system docker stop # hangs…

I then tried killing the related process

$ ps -A | grep docker
12381 ? 00:00:00 dockerd
3147 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
3189 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
3222 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
3239 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
3321 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy

…

$ sudo pkill -x docker-proxy
$ sudo pkill -x dockerd
$ ps -A | grep docker
13190 ? 00:00:02 dockerd
14285 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
14295 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
14347 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
14354 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
14424 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy
14435 ? 00:00:00 docker-proxy

…

The problem happened on one remote server, and twice on my local machine, I was finally able to overcome the problem yesterday on my local machine by wipping all files and restarting and on the remote machine by reinitializing to a clean ubuntu install but the problem keep happening.

How should I proceed? I could manage to get it working again but I don’t want it to fail every morning.

IOS : Pop_OS! 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Docker version ( 20.10.12 on remote server)
Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 20.10.12
API version: 1.41
Go version: go1.16.12
Git commit: e91ed57
Built: Mon Dec 13 11:45:33 2021
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Context: default
Experimental: true

Server: Docker Engine - Community
Engine:
Version: 20.10.12
API version: 1.41 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.16.12
Git commit: 459d0df
Built: Mon Dec 13 11:43:41 2021
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: 1.4.12
GitCommit: 7b11cfaabd73bb80907dd23182b9347b4245eb5d
runc:
Version: 1.0.2
GitCommit: v1.0.2-0-g52b36a2
docker-init:
Version: 0.19.0
GitCommit: de40ad0

#2

I figured out docker hanged because dockerd was stuck in activation mode

me@pop-os ~ % sudo systemctl status docker       
● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (start) since Wed 2022-02-23 15:15:39 CET; 26min ago
TriggeredBy: ● docker.socket
       Docs: https://docs.docker.com
   Main PID: 5936 (dockerd)
      Tasks: 55
     Memory: 145.5M
     CGroup: /system.slice/docker.service
             ├─5936 /usr/bin/dockerd -D -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock
             ├─6907 /usr/bin/docker-proxy -proto tcp -host-ip 0.0.0.0 -host-port 9113 -container-ip 192.168.208.2 -container-port 9113
             ├─6965 /usr/bin/docker-proxy -proto tcp -host-ip :: -host-port 9113 -container-ip 192.168.208.2 -container-port 9113
             ├─7015 /usr/bin/docker-proxy -proto tcp -host-ip 0.0.0.0 -host-port 9726 -container-ip 192.168.208.3 -container-port 9726
             └─7026 /usr/bin/docker-proxy -proto tcp -host-ip :: -host-port 9726 -container-ip 192.168.208.3 -container-port 9726

I’m still trying to figure out what went wrong

#3

Have you fixed it? I encountered the same problem.