Hi, I upgraded my server (debian 8.5) a few days ago via apt-get. docker-engine was updated. I use docker only for discourse. The discourse container did not restart after updating. Manually restarting fails with /var/discourse# ./launcher restart app /usr/bin/docker: Error response from daemon:…

Nope, without a functioning Docker you are pretty hosed.

What does docker version and docker info report? Docker needs to be installed, ideally updated to latest, and working.

docker version Client: Version: 1.11.2 API version: 1.23 Go version: go1.5.4 Git commit: b9f10c9 Built: Wed Jun 1 21:23:39 2016 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 Server: Version: 1.11.2 API version: 1.23 Go version: go1.5.4 Git commit: b9f10c9 Built: Wed Jun …

did not help. same issue :frowning:

Are you on bare metal or some kind of hidden VM? I’ve heard horror stories from being on shared VPSes using certain types of cheap virtualization with Docker.. it just doesn’t work.

I am not sure. The server is definetly just a virtual machine but I did not feel any restraints so far and discourse was working nicely for some months now just like some other (non docker) apps, that still work fine. Meanwhile I also did rebuild app again after re installing docker. So now it …

Container fails to (re)start after system update

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) June 10, 2016, 8:12pm 4

Hmm, not sure. That looks roughly correct, but clearly something is not right with your Docker. Maybe remove Docker and re-install?

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