# Troubleshoot docker installation issues

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshoot-docker-installation-issues/13657
**Category:** Self-Hosting
**Tags:** docker, how-to
**Created:** [March 12, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshoot-docker-installation-issues/13657 "2014-03-12T03:49:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
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### Author: ![Discourse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/discourse/32/148734_2.png) [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshoot-docker-installation-issues/13657/1 "2014-03-12T03:49:02Z")

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I just ran:

```plaintext
    cd /var/discourse
    git pull
    ./launcher rebuild app

```

And am getting:

```plaintext
Your Docker installation is not working correctly
See: https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-error-on-bootstrap/13657/18?u=sam

```

What do I do?

### First things first … scroll up.

The error will usually contain multiple lines, the last line just points you here, previous lines point at the actual issue.

### Second thing … can you run a trivial container… try.

```plaintext
docker run -it --rm hello-world

```

If this is not working, your docker installation is broken.

First start by googling the error you found, remember there is a very active community at [https://forums.docker.com/](https://forums.docker.com/) that may either have had this issue or can help you out.

### Maybe you are out of disk space?

Try

```plaintext
./launcher cleanup

```

## Very often the problem is solved by restarting the docker service

```
sudo systemctl restart docker.service

```

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