Steps to reproduce the behavior Running Docker 1.12.6 Run a docker build on an EC2 instance (let’s say the docker build hangs) Reboot EC2 instance After the instance reboots, whenever I try to run ANY docker command (e.g., docker info), it just hangs and doesn’t return. I tried to restart docker…

Can you please open an issue with as many details on the system and on how to reproduce on the Docker repo? [image] Build software better, together GitHub is where people build software. More than 27 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 75 million projects. …

A better place for a Docker for AWS issue is probably https://github.com/docker/for-aws Please make sure to include docker-diagnose output Thanks!

Please follow the below steps to solve this issue Step 1 : Uninstall docker “sudo yum remove docker" Step 2 : remove all docker folder "sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker” “sudo rm -rf /var/run/docker” “sudo rm /var/run/docker.*” (remove docker.sock, docker.pid files) Step 3 : Reinstall docker "s…

You don’t need to reinstall or delete the container image data. Simply do below :slight_smile: slight_smile: Stop the service first sudo service docker stop Clean up some of the files as mentioned in above post from Sam. sudo rm -rf /var/run/docker sudo rm /var/run/docker.*" Start service now s…

What would you suggest if sudo service docker stop Hangs? Can i go ahead delete those files? And is everything self there to remove?

If service command hangs than you should kill the PID and delete the files. After you can try to restart using service command.

I KILLED docker via the system monitor, and removed said files, but sudo service docker start produces absolutely not output and the problem persists

Thank you, really helpful. In case someone is using Alpine Linux like me: apk del docker instead of yum remove docker

I had docker stuck in the same way, but for me the solution of @tmcconechy did not work. [image] tmcconechy: sudo service docker stop because my Linux did not recognize the service command. So I did a ps followed by grep (In the following I abbreviated the output) BA92-C02VP224HTDF:Ampersa…

What to do when all docker commands hang?

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friism (Michael Friis) February 7, 2017, 2:27pm 2

Can you please open an issue with as many details on the system and on how to reproduce on the Docker repo?

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