connectyb
March 27, 2024, 5:41am
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Hi there,
I’m unable to move the location of the disk image to an external drive in the resource page. The path update however each time I quit the page and go back then the path path has reset to the previous locateion. Yes, I do an apply. Teh reason I want to move the image to an external drive is to make it bigger.
I’m running:
Anyone has an idea?
thanks
rimelek
March 28, 2024, 11:17pm
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opened 01:07PM - 13 Apr 23 UTC
area/volumes
version/4.18.0
status/needs-investigating
- [x] I have tried with the latest version of Docker Desktop
- [x] I have tri… ed disabling enabled experimental features
- [x] I have uploaded Diagnostics
- Diagnostics ID: A86CC52E-36D4-4F96-B334-E7F775C2A92D/20230413123832
### Expected behavior
After changing Settings -> Resources -> Advanced -> Disk Image location to _external volume -> empty folder_, Docker should successfully change it to new location and restart.
### Actual behavior
After changing Settings -> Resources -> Advanced -> Disk Image location to an empty folder on external volume, Docker hangs forever on "Apply & restart", the circle of progress bar constantly spins. Docker service becomes inactive and hangs in restarting state.
If I try to do it for the same partition, where disk image originally was, it works as intended.
### Information
I did a clean install of Docker Desktop from the official site. Waited for it to finish changing directory for more than 30 mins. The directory to where I move is clean of any files. A disk space available is more than 100Gb on both drives, where Docker is installed and the directory, where I move. The disk is free of errors and the both volumes for Docker and where I move is internal disk of MacBook, which never failed and allows blazing fast disk access.
I also tried:
- Restart Docker or Quit and then start over with checking its not running in Activity Monitor
- Reboot and apply the setting again many times
- Checked the rights on the dir @ external drive, so I able to move files here, it's not write-protected
- No antivirus, at Little Snitch firewall Docker has full access to any outbound/inbound connection
- Fully reinstall with ```uninstaller /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/uninstall``` and reboot for sure before installing again
- Stop Docker service and then change the dir to another
- Reduce disk limit and swap to the minimum values available, 8Gb for disk limit and 0Gb for swap respectively.
- macOS Version: Ventura 13.2.1
- Intel chip or Apple chip: Apple M1
- Docker Desktop Version: 4.18.0
### Output of `/Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.diagnose check`
```
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.973584000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] set path configuration to OnHost
Starting diagnostics
[PASS] DD0027: is there available disk space on the host?
[PASS] DD0028: is there available VM disk space?
[PASS] DD0018: does the host support virtualization?
[PASS] DD0001: is the application running?
[PASS] DD0017: can a VM be started?
[PASS] DD0016: is the LinuxKit VM running?
[FAIL] DD0011: are the LinuxKit services running? failed to ping VM diagnosticsd with error: Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix diagnosticd.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.983219000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] ipc.NewClient: 69cbf4f4-diagnose -> diagnosticd.sock diagnosticsd
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.983437000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (f5619988) 69cbf4f4-diagnose C->S diagnosticsd GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.983746000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (f5619988) 69cbf4f4-diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (303.834µs): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix diagnosticd.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[FAIL] DD0004: is the Docker engine running? Get "http://ipc/docker": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.984240000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] ipc.NewClient: 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose -> lifecycle-server.sock VMDockerdAPI
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.984564000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /docker
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.984871000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /docker (304.875µs): Get "http://ipc/docker": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.985083000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475-1) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:46.985309000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475-1) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (224.709µs): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:47.985670000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475-2) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:47.988156000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475-2) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (2.485708ms): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:48.989218000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475-3) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:48.991239000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475-3) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (2.127042ms): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:49.992449000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475-4) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:49.994634000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475-4) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (2.176041ms): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:50.995807000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475-5) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:50.998085000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475-5) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (2.26975ms): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:51.999422000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475-6) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:52.001589000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475-6) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (2.164125ms): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:53.002692000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475-7) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:53.004767000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475-7) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (2.068667ms): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[2023-04-13T12:40:54.006103000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (4db55475-8) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C->S VMDockerdAPI GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:54.008382000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (4db55475-8) 3ad77a33-com.docker.diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (2.2805ms): Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[FAIL] DD0015: are the binary symlinks installed? 2 errors occurred:
* checking binaries in /usr/local/bin: looking for /usr/local/bin/docker: lstat /usr/local/bin/docker: permission denied
* checking binaries in $HOME/.docker/bin: unable to find /Users/Rage/.docker/bin: stat /Users/Rage/.docker/bin: no such file or directory
[FAIL] DD0031: does the Docker API work? Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix://docker.raw.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
[FAIL] DD0013: is the $PATH ok? unable to find docker executable on PATH
[FAIL] DD0003: is the Docker CLI working? exec: "docker": executable file not found in $PATH
[PASS] DD0038: is the connection to Docker working?
[FAIL] DD0014: are the backend processes running? 3 errors occurred:
* com.docker.vpnkit is not running
* com.docker.driver.amd64-linux is not running
* com.docker.virtualization is not running
[PASS] DD0007: is the backend responding?
[PASS] DD0008: is the native API responding?
[PASS] DD0009: is the vpnkit API responding?
[FAIL] DD0010: is the Docker API proxy responding? failed to ping Docker proxy API with error: Get "http://ipc/desktop-diagnostics/ping": read unix ->/Users/Rage/.docker/run/docker.sock: i/o timeout (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
[2023-04-13T12:40:55.747620000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] ipc.NewClient: be681834-diagnose -> <HOME>/.docker/run/docker.sock Proxy
[2023-04-13T12:40:55.747962000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (2962e667) be681834-diagnose C->S Proxy GET /desktop-diagnostics/ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:56.749688000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (2962e667) be681834-diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /desktop-diagnostics/ping (1.001707834s): Get "http://ipc/desktop-diagnostics/ping": read unix -><HOME>/.docker/run/docker.sock: i/o timeout (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
[2023-04-13T12:40:56.751581000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (2962e667-1) be681834-diagnose C->S Proxy GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:57.754142000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (2962e667-1) be681834-diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (1.002534333s): Get "http://ipc/ping": read unix -><HOME>/.docker/run/docker.sock: i/o timeout (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
[2023-04-13T12:40:58.756890000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (2962e667-2) be681834-diagnose C->S Proxy GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:40:59.759177000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (2962e667-2) be681834-diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (1.002291042s): Get "http://ipc/ping": read unix -><HOME>/.docker/run/docker.sock: i/o timeout (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
[2023-04-13T12:41:00.761361000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (2962e667-3) be681834-diagnose C->S Proxy GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:41:01.763714000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (2962e667-3) be681834-diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (1.002354334s): Get "http://ipc/ping": read unix -><HOME>/.docker/run/docker.sock: i/o timeout (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
[2023-04-13T12:41:02.766400000Z][com.docker.diagnose][I] (2962e667-4) be681834-diagnose C->S Proxy GET /ping
[2023-04-13T12:41:03.769550000Z][com.docker.diagnose][W] (2962e667-4) be681834-diagnose C<-S NoResponse GET /ping (1.003080042s): Get "http://ipc/ping": read unix -><HOME>/.docker/run/docker.sock: i/o timeout (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
[SKIP] DD0030: is the image access management authorized?
[PASS] DD0033: does the host have Internet access?
[PASS] DD0018: does the host support virtualization?
[PASS] DD0001: is the application running?
[PASS] DD0017: can a VM be started?
[PASS] DD0016: is the LinuxKit VM running?
[WARN] DD0011: are the LinuxKit services running? failed to ping VM diagnosticsd with error: Get "http://ipc/ping": dial unix diagnosticd.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[WARN] DD0004: is the Docker engine running? Get "http://ipc/docker": dial unix lifecycle-server.sock: connect: no such file or directory
[WARN] DD0015: are the binary symlinks installed? 2 errors occurred:
* checking binaries in /usr/local/bin: looking for /usr/local/bin/docker: lstat /usr/local/bin/docker: permission denied
* checking binaries in $HOME/.docker/bin: unable to find /Users/Rage/.docker/bin: stat /Users/Rage/.docker/bin: no such file or directory
[WARN] DD0031: does the Docker API work? Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix://docker.raw.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
[WARN] DD0032: do Docker networks overlap with host IPs? Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix://docker.raw.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
```
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
1. Start Docker
2. Go to 'Settings -> Resources -> Advanced -> Disk Image location'
3. Change location to empty folder of external drive, which is not protected from the read/write
4. See the app hangs as on the screen I provided above
I don’t know why this issue comes back from time to time. I don’t need to change the disk image location, but when I tried many versions before to test it for someone, the same happened as now. It doesn’t really change the location so I don’t think it gos back when you restart. It probably never changes the location. An empty folder is created. MAybe something happens in the background which I can’t see.
But this is a comment that seemed to help people:
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6803#issuecomment-1801415091
@metafoo /Users/[user]/Library/Group Containers/group.com.docker/settings.json worked for me
connectyb
March 29, 2024, 3:57am
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Hi rimelek,
I followed the instructions (resizing to smaller size while setting the external drive) and it did work. Thanks for the link.
