No Whaley icon when starting docker on mac, but docker seems to work on command line

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I want to apologize in advance if this is not the right place for this question. I could not find any other place to post.

I just downloaded the latest version of Docker Desktop for Mac. It installed fine and it will start, sort of. After I put in my docker username and pass the whaley icon disappears and I can’t access any of the docker gui. I can still go to the command line and run containers and make docker do things. To shut down docker I have to force quit it from the activity monitor in the mac os x. I can’t do it cleanly from a gui.

I am running a branch new macbook air with catalina 15.4 latest mac os x. Is the current docker gui broke on this version of the mac os x?

Can anyone advise me on why this software is not behaving properly?

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I have the exact same issue since yesterday (it worked well for a couple of hours). MB Pro, Catalina 15.4

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So what is interesting is I have 3 apple computers all running the latest version of catalina. My imacpro shows the desktop gui no problem. My imac does as well. But my imac pro with the exact same install is not showing the gui. I am guessing this might be an issue with the docker software quality? I really need this stuff to work if at all possible, I use it on dev projects all the time. Right now my workaround is to just use the command line on my macbook air where the gui is not working, but it would be really nice if I could get the gui back. Hopefully they are working on a fix for this.

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A really strange experience. I used the docker command line to remove oraclelinux image which I had previously installed. Restarted my machine and presto - desktop working again. I don’t think its related to the oraclelinux image itself - maybe some internal cleanup is done when you remove an image? Ill revert back if I discover a reproducible pattern.

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Thanks for the idea sir!

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I upgraded to 15.5.5 catalina last night on my mackbook air and the whaley icon now works on my laptop. Looks like everything is fine again. Still never resolved 15.5.4 Catalina where the whaley was not coming up.

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Have someone else resolve this question? I can see the docker icon on menu bar until yesterday, but this day i cant see it any more on my menu bar. Now I can only work docker with command-line, and quit docker by ‘kill’ command. It is bad. Well, I am using macOS 10.15.5 and its a 13-inch 2019 model.

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I have this issue now, with the Docker Desktop (Apple Chip version) I installed today (as of Aug 10, 2022) and macOS Monterey 12.5. Very inconvenient.

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I have the same problem in MBP Ventura 13.3.1(a) , my docker server version is 23.0.5. Below is my docker info

Client:
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.10.4
    Path:     /Users/mocun/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v2.17.3
    Path:     /Users/mocun/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
  dev: Docker Dev Environments (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.1.0
    Path:     /Users/mocun/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-dev
  extension: Manages Docker extensions (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.2.19
    Path:     /Users/mocun/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-extension
  init: Creates Docker-related starter files for your project (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.1.0-beta.4
    Path:     /Users/mocun/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-init
  sbom: View the packaged-based Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) for an image (Anchore Inc.)
    Version:  0.6.0
    Path:     /Users/mocun/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-sbom
  scan: Docker Scan (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.26.0
    Path:     /Users/mocun/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-scan
  scout: Command line tool for Docker Scout (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.10.0
    Path:     /Users/mocun/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-scout

Server:
 Containers: 0
  Running: 0
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 0
 Images: 15
 Server Version: 23.0.5
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Using metacopy: false
  Native Overlay Diff: true
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
 Cgroup Version: 2
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: 2806fc1057397dbaeefbea0e4e17bddfbd388f38
 runc version: v1.1.5-0-gf19387a
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: builtin
  cgroupns
 Kernel Version: 5.15.49-linuxkit
 Operating System: Docker Desktop
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: aarch64
 CPUs: 4
 Total Memory: 7.668GiB
 Name: docker-desktop
 ID: 517ac001-ef4f-4b21-9c98-130b3142f8fb
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 HTTP Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 HTTPS Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 No Proxy: hubproxy.docker.internal
 Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  hubproxy.docker.internal:5555
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false