Ok, in that case my docker configuration must be messing up the install.
Only thing I can think of is that with my root file system being ext3 and my /var/lib/docker filesystem is formatted as ext4 there is a problem somehow.
I only created a separate file system for /var/lib/docker because overlayfs didn’t seem to work with the root file system that is ext3.
I could just upgrade the root file system to ext4 and have /var/lib/docker on the root file system, I’m just not sure if it would help or not.
It seems to be hard to find a list of overlayfs requirements.
I have the latest Linode Kernel “4.1.5-x86_64-linode61”.
I could compile my own kernel but it seems like 4.1.5 should be new enough.