Mac Dashboard not loading

Docker Desktop
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Unable to open Dashboard feature. I have successfully installed Docker Desktop on Mac (10.15.7), but I am unable to launch any of the features from the taskbar. Dashboard, preferences, troubleshoot, etc… All the options on the taskbar don’t open. I have tried both the stable version and the edge version. I am not sure how to debug.

I have looked through console, but I can’t find a hint as to what it could be.

Update, I found this in the console:

default 19:10:13.037955-0500 Docker Desktop Helper (GPU) MessageTracer: Falling back to default whitelist
default 19:10:13.038031-0500 Docker Desktop Helper (GPU) Can’t open default search tree file: Operation not permitted
default 19:10:13.038556-0500 Docker Desktop Helper (GPU) XPC connection invalidated (daemon unloaded or disabled)
default 19:10:13.095119-0500 Docker Desktop Helper (GPU) GVA info: preferred scaler idx 1
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Interesting… I have the same problem… did you figure out the problem?

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Hello, I solve it quiting docker and deleting folder ~/Library/Application Support/Docker Desktop.

Then opening docker again (it will recreate files in this folder), the windows can be opened again.

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@dyorgio thanks for sharing. This issue still exist cant believe no fix yet

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I didn’t find an issue in the docker/for-mac which sounded similar to this. The support there is best effort and of course if you have a Pro or Team plan you can access Premier Support for Docker Desktop. Either way, you can troubleshoot further by troubleshooting directly from the terminal in this case since the “Troubleshoot” menu item didn’t work for you.

Hopefully this helps!

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I appreciate the comment on support being best effort here, but I can confirm that it still exists though, in 3.6.0. Solution suggested by dyorgio works a treat.

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Just had this issue crop up after doing brew upgrade. Deleting “~/Library/Application\ Support/Docker\ Desktop” fixed the problem.

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this worked for me

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quit docker in your terminal:

osascript -e 'quit app "Docker"'

wait and check docker is quit.

open Docker.app again.

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Starting Docker Desktop failed to bring up the dashboard. It was running and showed up in the Activity Monitor. Was able to resolve the issue in my case by killing the process in Activity Monitor and running the app again.