Docker: copying bootstrap data to pipe caused "write init-p: broken pipe"

Hi there,

I am currently out of the country, and silly as I am, I wanted to update my discourse server - usually that goes without issues.

After the update, the forum didn’t come back up. I tried git pull and launcher rebuild but this error keeps coming up:

/usr/bin/docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:348: starting container process caused “process_linux.go:297: copying bootstrap data to pipe caused "write init-p: broken pipe"”: unknown.
Your Docker installation is not working correctly

See: Troubleshoot docker installation issues

Searching the forum didn’t yield much - other than “Your docker isn’t working”. I didn’t change a thing, and the machine itself is dedicated for Discourse. I tried reinstalling docker, but nothing changed…

Any help to get the forum up and running again will be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

It’s running Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS on Digital Ocean (I wasn’t sure if it was safe to upgrade to 16.04)…

From the thread I ran:

root@forum:~# docker run --rm -i -a stdin -a stdout ubuntu echo 1
docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:348: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:297: copying bootstrap data to pipe caused \"write init-p: broken pipe\"": unknown.

Docker version:

# docker -v
Docker version 18.06.2-ce, build 6d37f41