On a Intel NUC with a fresh Ubuntu Server 22.04.1 LTS installation I failed to install docker according to these instructions. Step:
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin
gave the following error:
Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status docker.service" and "journalctl -xeu docker.service" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript docker, action "start" failed.
● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-11-14 10:55:55 CET; 39ms ago
TriggeredBy: ● docker.socket
Docs: https://docs.docker.com
Process: 3671 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 3671 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 145ms
dpkg: error processing package docker-ce (--configure):
installed docker-ce package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
docker-ce
needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
See also similar topic without a solution mentioned.
I found my solution in disable blocking of my pi-hole (possible a VPN could also create this error)
Perhaps this will help someone during installation